We are looking for a curious customer obsessed driven and creative individual to join the Amazon Fresh category management team. The Category Manager will engage directly with multiple internal teams to optimize the assortment for key vendors and brands. You will utilize a wide range of skills and work across major functional areas such as category management pricing inventory management operations marketing and finance to drive the performance of strategic vendor partners at Amazon. You will own a wide SKU count for your vendors so that your work is varied and challenging.
The candidate possesses experience in buying marketing and/or finance with a track record of successful relationship management strong analytical acumen and experience generating and managing reporting and analysis. Great communication skills and understanding of Excel will be essential to your success. The ideal candidate is a selfstarter who will take ownership of projects and business problems to deliver a successful result.
Our environment is fastpaced and requires someone who is flexible detailoriented analytical and comfortable working with multiple teams vendors partners and management.
A day in the life Be the business owner for your vendors and regions working autonomously and possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact your vendors Coordinate crossfunctional teams and communicate with internal and external partners while meeting tight deadlines Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability goals for your category Analyze weekly and monthly performance metrics and manage communication with internal and external stakeholders to hit financial targets Provide input for your category regarding promotional activity space allocation pricing productivity analysis and forecasting
1 years of account management project or program management or buying experience Bachelors degree 2 years of retail buying experience 2 years of with Excel experience manipulate and analyze large sets of data 2 years of retail operations product or program management or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
3 years of account management project or program management or buying experience Experience doing one of several roles: quantitative/financial analysis retail buying retail planning & allocation product/project management pricing marketing or ecommerce Experience in vendor negotiations pricing and promotion inventory management and product development
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