Sr. Program Manager
DESCRIPTION
The FBA Inventory and Capacity Management team is responsible for the challenging task of controlling FBA inventory volume sent to and stored in the Amazon Fulfillment Network (AFN), while still allowing sellers to grow at the pace they desire. Our team is uniquely positioned to identify opportunities to better align incentives between Amazon and sellers, for example if there is selection or sellers that are systematically unprofitable. We are looking for an entrepreneurial, results-oriented Senior Program Manager for inventory planning across WW marketplaces. You will work with science and marketplace business teams to build advanced models for forecasting inventory using seller signals and business initiatives. You will build bridges to explain variance in inventory at granular levels to drive appropriate action within FBA and marketplace business teams. This is a highly analytical role which will require you to work closely with science and ML teams. This is also a highly cross functional role which will require you to work with stakeholders WW and scale product adoption. This is an opportunity to work in a startup like environment within Amazon and we seek a leader who is motivated by a fast-paced and highly entrepreneurial environment. You will leverage your deep expertise to work backwards from our customers, identify the right opportunities to help us accelerate at scale, and innovate faster for our customers. If you have a passion for innovation, for thinking big to tackle ambiguous problems, for solving some of the biggest technical challenges in the industry, and for building elegant products that delight our customers, we need you!
Key job responsibilities
- Analyze inventory trends and efficiency metrics for each marketplace.
- Create inventory forecast using inventory prediction models available and overlay with structural initiatives.
- Create actionable bridges to explain variance in inventory to plan.
- Identify opportunities to improve FBA inventory efficiency.
- Engage with stakeholders across marketplace business teams, capacity, S&OP and Finance teams to socialize inventory plan.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in BI, finance, engineering, statistics, computer science, mathematics, finance or equivalent quantitative field