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Amazon is hiring a manager-level Engineering Manager in the software engineering function based in Milan, Italy. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, Data Analytics.

Role: Engineering Manager
Function: software engineering
Level: manager
Track: hybrid
Employment: Full-time
Location: Milan, Italy
Work mode: On-site
Department: Corporate Operations
Posted: Jul 6, 2026

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Engineering Manager leading Amazon's First Mile shipping operations and product development. Manages complex cross-functional programs across supply chain legs, designs operational solutions, and communicates with senior leadership. Requires hands-on approach, strong program management, analytical skills, and ability to build stakeholder relationships.

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Job description

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Job summary
Are you interested in creating the future of e-com shipping? Do you want to be a part of team building the next $1bn initiative? Our team is changing the way we interact with customers around the globe and building a new, emerging business in shipping to solve some of the biggest logistical challenges facing not just Amazon, but the entire industry.

Amazon Shipping
Amazon shipping offers Amazon’s logistic capabilities as a product and service. Amazon Shipping’s first customers are sellers in the UK, offering to ship their domestic volume using our delivery network.

Amazon Shipping is looking to hire an experienced leader to join the First Mile team. You will be a natural self-starter who is comfortable supporting large, complex cross functional programs and will have a true hands-on approach, strong program management and analytical skills, and be an effective communicator.

This is a great opportunity to join an entrepreneurial business that is growing at an incredible pace. You will be part of the core team that will be managing the Amazon Shipping business and operations across all legs of the supply chain (first mile, middle mile and last mile). You will also be leading the development of our operational product to deliver a world class customer experience, and the design and implementation of new operating solutions to enable the delivery of strategic targets (service, growth, cost).

You will have a true hands-on approach, operational inclination, strong leadership skills and the ability to build and leverage relationships across a wide stakeholder group to generate creative solutions to industry level strategic problems. As this position involves regular interaction with senior leadership (Directors, VPs), you need to be comfortable communicating robustly at that level whilst also working directly with various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization across the Amazon business.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Lead operational programs for Amazon Shipping, and partner with AMZL/ATS operations and business teams
- Monitor weekly First mile qualitative and Cost KPIs to be reported in SWA and AMZL WBR.
- Partner with AMZL/ATS/Commercial and Customer Support teams to improve processes and enhance performance.
- Own ops readiness documents (to define problem statements), impact assessment.
- Own launch/ implementation and scale up before handing over to operations as a BAU task set.

Basic Qualifications

- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
- Customer focus and professional demeanor.
- Organizational skill and an operations mindset.
- An ability and interest in working in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment.
- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.
- Experience leading and interacting with cross-functional teams.
- Ability to organize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong presentation skills.
- Ability to travel in the EU.
- Fluent in written and spoken English. Proficient with Microsoft Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

- Knowledge of Lean principles and DMAIC methodology
- Experience in MS Access and SQL
- Experience in requirement gathering and ability to write clear and detailed requirement document

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The minimum gross base salary for this position is listed below. The base salary listed corresponds to working on a full-time basis. For part-time hours, the salary will be pro-rated.

Amazon reserves the right to offer a higher salary and/or level, depending on the candidate's skills, competencies, and experience. Amazon's package may include a sign on payment. In addition, the candidate may be eligible to participate in a restricted stock unit scheme operated independently by Amazon.com Inc. in USA.

Your recruiting team will share final salary and any restricted stock unit scheme if applicable, depending on skills and requirements.

In addition to statutory benefits, and those applicable to the relevant CBA, company supplementary benefits may apply subject to further terms.

Milan, ITA - 33,500.00 EUR Annually