Amazon’s Automated Inventory Management (AIM) team is building machines and new technology to automate the end-to-end management of billions of dollars of inventory for Amazon's worldwide Retail businesses. Our team is accountable for ensuring that all mechanisms, automatic or manual, that Amazon uses to buy and place inventory are driving the business outcomes that delight our customers while also ensuring Amazon's long-term health. Our machines automatically audit our Retail business, detecting customer-impacting inventory defects (like out of stock products), diagnosing the defect's root cause, and driving the necessary corrective action. Our role in Amazon is high-impact, high-exposure and fundamentally important to Amazon's continued success.
AIM is looking for experienced business leaders to help us drive to full automation. You will lead inventory management innovation and define the AIM strategy and product roadmap to drive process and system improvements to automate worldwide inventory management and identify and drive long term free cash flow opportunities. You will also be a critical agent of organizational change, guiding multiple teams and organizations from legacy manual processes and mechanisms towards a new operating paradigm in an automated world.
This is a highly visible role that requires partnering with worldwide Retail, Finance and Operations teams to impact Amazon’s bottom line at scale. You must possesses superb business judgment, Retail or operations management experience, strong stakeholder management skills, have project management experience and be comfortable with driving multiple and diverse projects in complex environments.
You must have experience and capability to prepare documentation for senior executives and align your roadmap with Amazon’s strategic objectives. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a necessity. Successful candidates should excel at diving into data in order to analyze root causes and implement simple, long term solutions. He or she will excel in setting direction, have strong analytical capabilities, the position requires an individual who can work autonomously in a demanding and often ambiguous environment, with strong attention to detail and effective prioritization.
Key job responsibilities
· Work with various stakeholders, to understand business drivers, goals and actionable outcomes using analytics
· Gather data and perform sophisticated analytical exercises
· Support process improvement with accurate and meaningful data
· Get involved into Dashboards development & delivery activities, with the requirement of ensuring data quality and life cycle of data
· Working with the functional business leaders to build scalable processes and metrics
· Work with data engineers to generate weekly, monthly, and quarterly operational metric reports
· Drive business decision-making based on analytical findings
· Work with data scientists to employ data mining, segmentation, and other analytical techniques to capture important trends and create relevant measurement dashboards
· Participate in strategic and tactical planning discussions
· Perform ad hoc analyses
· Cross functional team/product/program management- 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Experience as a product manager or owner
- Experience owning technology products- Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
- Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
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