Position Information
  • Job Title
    Sr. Product Manager - Inventory Planning and Control
  • Company:
    Amazon
  • Location:
    Seattle, WA 98104
  • Job Category:
    Logistics/Transportation
  • Career Level:
    Experienced (Non-Manager)
  • Reference Code:
    86991
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Sr. Product Manager - Inventory Planning and Control

Interested in leveraging your strong business and analytical skills in order to help define Amazon's WW Inventory buying strategy? As a Sr. Product Manager of the Inventory Planning and Control (IPC) team you will be responsible for coming up with creative strategies to optimize Amazon's inventory in order to achieve the best experience for our customers at the lowest price. This position will focus on identifying and analyzing opportunities to improve business processes and come up with strategies to automate buying. This is a high visibility role that requires partnering with WW Retail, Finance and Operations teams to impact our bottom-line. 

 

The successful candidate will be a person who enjoys and excels at diving into data to analyze root causes and implement long term solutions - changes in business policy or processes, updates to the models in our systems, creation of effective metrics and functionality.  The goal is to improve the Amazon customer experience through improved selection, product availability, and fulfillment reliability while enhancing profitability. 

 

Job Qualifications

  • Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Experience using SQL and statistical tools
  • 4+ years of experience gathering and analyzing large amounts of data and delivering continuous business improvements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The role requires effective communication with senior management as well as with colleagues from retail, computer science, operations research and business backgrounds.
  • Ability to work effectively with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
  • A strong appetite for teamwork, and a just-do-it attitude.
  • Well versed in Excel and Access.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, business or another technical field is required. MBA is highly desired.