Senior Retail Supply Chain and Inventory Manager, Health & Personal Care - Amazon Services, LLC - Seattle, WA

Want to work in one of the most innovative businesses at Amazon? Interested in working in a high impact role? Amazon’s Health & Personal Care team is looking for a talented, driven, and highly analytical leader to help redefine how Amazon fulfills customer demand for Consumable products.

The Senior Instock Manager will be responsible for leading inventory management strategies to maximize customer experience, sales, margin and turns, as well as end-to-end business ownership of all supply chain processes from manufacturer to consumer. The individual will play a critical role in delivering the optimal customer experience by ensuring we have the right product quantities, in the right places, at the right time. The individual will also lead or be a key stakeholder in multiple strategic projects and initiatives. To achieve this mission as cost effectively as possible, Senior Instock Managers work to continuously optimize our end-to-end supply chain by engaging with vendors to improve operational metrics, and driving system and process enhancements and automation with key internal teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

SUPPLY CHAIN

• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to continuously improve overall cost structure and customer experience.


• Drive complex business analysis to identify business opportunities to improve revenue and profitability


• Drive improvement in inventory availability, increasing inventory efficiency and ensuring that the company makes efficient supply chain decisions


• Work cross functionally to identify and build best practices and process improvements

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Drive cross-functional projects to support new strategic initiatives and business opportunities for the organization.


• Key inventory management stakeholder for initiatives like Prime Pantry, Subscribe and Save, Prime now.

VENDOR MANAGEMENT

• To identify, define and execute operational changes with vendors in partnership with Vendor Management team to drive supply chain improvements


• Establish strong vendor relationships with key/strategic vendors

AUTOMATION ENHANCEMENT

• Work closely with internal technical teams to drive multi-system process changes


• Provide scalable solutions for specific issues

Up to 5% Travel required

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer – F/M/V/D

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain/Operations, Engineering, Statistics, Marketing or Finance


• Professional experience influencing internal and external stakeholders


• Sound business judgment and strong analytical thinking skills as well as a proven track record of taking ownership and driving results


• Proficiency with Excel, SQL

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA Preferred


• 5+ years supply chain, inventory management, retail and/or project management experience


• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects – prioritization, planning and task delegation


• Supply chain, inventory management, finance, vendor and/or project management experience


• Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment


• Strong proficiency in analysis tools including Microsoft Excel, SQL, and statistics software


• Experience in building and developing a high performance team


• Proven ability to manage large and complicated projects with experience leading cross-functional projects and teams