Senior Manager, Regional Safety

About the role

Amazon is hiring a Senior Manager, Regional Safety in Phoenix, Arizona to lead end-to-end on-the-road transportation safety across its North America West region. The role owns regional strategy, implementation, governance, investment allocation and partner engagement, using Global Road Safety standards and metrics.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily regional road-safety operations and serve as the main safety resource for operations teams, third-party carriers and transportation teams.
• Set safety strategy, complete risk assessments, respond to regulatory requests and direct mitigations that reduce incidents and on-road risks.
• Oversee investigations, regulatory compliance, incident documentation and corrective actions.
• Implement standardized field-risk and hazard-data collection and maintain defensible metrics for governance and investment decisions, including VSCR, VCR, TSIR and APMKM.
• Build relationships with regional leaders, carriers and local teams and influence partners without direct authority.
• Lead and develop regional safety managers, set operating standards and hold the team accountable.
• Build scalable mechanisms for driver capability, vehicle compliance, fatigue-risk management and carrier accountability.
• Maintain a strong field presence, perform site reviews and audits, and close gaps between policy and field execution.

Required qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree and experience in safety or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, service operations or a related field.
• At least eight years of logistics-operations experience, cross-functional work with operations partners and support functions, and team-management experience.
• At least four years of safety-investigation or risk-management experience.
• Experience using safety data and metrics to improve operations and deploying a Safety Management System or equivalent framework across a large, distributed operation.

Preferred qualifications

• A master’s degree in safety, transportation, engineering or a related field, or relevant industry experience.
• At least eight years of transportation-safety or operations experience.
• Expert knowledge of transportation-safety regulations and practices, including FMCSA and DOT requirements.
• Experience building field capability and developing frontline safety leaders.

Pay and benefits

The stated base salary is USD 140,800–246,400 per year. The employer also describes sign-on payments and restricted stock units, health and life coverage, employee assistance and mental-health support, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off and parental leave. Final compensation depends on experience, qualifications and location.

How to apply

Applications are due 25 October 2026 through the vacancy-specific Amazon Jobs link. An Amazon Jobs account is required.