Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Business (AB) is looking for a Principal, Product Manager role to lead AB Operations specific Inventory Placement work. In this role you will own managing the different interfaces between customer feedback and the alignment within the AB Operations team and WW Operations and Tech partners to drive defect reductions across consolidation, speed and placement outcomes.
You will identify and implement long-term strategy, develop processes and partnerships, maintain internal customer relationships, and champion data-driven decision-making to drive improvements to the overall AB customer delivery experience. This is a critical leadership role with significant visibility and impact, with responsibility for achieving operational alignment for AB’s Strategic vision across multiple VP orgs, why managing VP level goals tied to placement improvements across all AB operating regions.
Success in this role requires you to think strategically, communicating initiatives over a 3-year vision. You will perform deep dive analytics on existing processes, identify gaps and opportunities and create scalable long-term mechanisms to drive improvement, establish key project milestones and business requirements. The successful candidate will have experience influencing business owners and supporting decision making in rapidly evolving environments. The role requires the candidate to be a self-starter with the ability work through ambiguity, being both strategic and analytical in their approach. The candidate must have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies that are grounded in data-based recommendations. This role also has regular interaction with senior leaders and therefore requires strong interpersonal and communication skills.
This role is ideally based in Bellevue, WA though other Amazon locations in Nashville, TN, Arlington, VA and Austin, TX may be considered.
Key job responsibilities
- This position will partner directly with AB Flywheel Inputs team across Selection, Pricing and Availably while coordinating directly with the Supply Chain Optimization team.
- Coordinate cross regional support, share best practices, influence partner team product roadmaps, and create joint operational planning cycle document across WW teams
- Create dashboards and deep dive tools needed to support placement initiatives across all AB regions, work closely with the AB Analytics teams to create these tools from a global summary view.
- Navigate through ambiguity in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, accepting ownership and accountability of the process and delivering on commitments.
- Own financial inputs for Network Wide cost savings strategy tied to Placement work specific to the AB Operations charter.
A day in the life
The role will work across the Amazon Business organization and SCOT, working on placement projects to optimize consolidation, speed and cost.
About the team
Amazon Business (AB) is re-inventing B2B eCommerce by offering business customers of all sizes the same advantages Amazon has already brought to consumers including broad selection, low pricing, and great customer service. WW Amazon Business Operations is building the operations and supply chain solutions that will enable AB’s rapid growth by re-engineering many parts of our supply chain to offer B2B specific last mile delivery solutions, consolidated and pallet deliveries, and many other services to scale Amazon Business in line with unique customer requirements. As a leader within this organization, you will be involved in helping re-imagine what a B2B supply chain should look like and play a key role in the technology that will power our B2B supply chain.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
- 10+ years of blending product and program management skills to execute strategic initiatives about process creation, standardization, and improvement experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
- Knowledge of SQL
Job Tags
Full time, Work experience placement,