Books supply chain advisor (書籍事業部 流通支援アドバイザー), EIS, Enhanced Instock Service

Instock manager 12-3

Amazon is looking for a customer focused driven and analytical leader to join the Books organization. We are looking for a Instock Manager who can own complex problems within Supply Chain and Operations this role the candidate will work cross functionally with teams to identify and launch initiatives aimed at improving the customer and vendor experience. This job is a consultant that works closely with publishers (2-3 per 1 role) to solve issues related to the supply chain.

Key job responsibilities
Instock Manager / Instock Management team

The Instock Manager will demonstrate ownership of inventory strategies to maximize sales margin and turns. He or She plays a critical role helping Amazon to build manage and optimize a complex Buying / Ordering ecosystem.
This role will report to the Instock manager and you will be responsible to be a good partner of assigned publishers and defining/executing plans to improve selection inventory availability and deliver supply chain efficiencies that reduce fixed and variable costs in order to provide best-in-class customer experience and maximize revenue and margin. The role will cover all aspects of inventory planning and operational management of assigned publishers including improving vendors performance as well as building an efficient and scalable supply chain operations. To achieve these initiatives you will perform strong communication skill to closely work with publishers related global team and stakeholders in/out of Books organization as well as strong analysis and delivery skill for data analysis automation and Kaizen.

A day in the life



Amazon

- Data extraction Dive deep Hypothesis formulation Action plan/Schedule planning Draft Presentation review
- Check metrics
- Respond to inquiries from clients
- Setup and execution for the Amazon system

About the team

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About Books organization
We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. Especially mission for Supply Chain and Inventory Management team which this role belongs to is to satisfy our customers in Japan by providing the right products with the right quantities in the right place at the right time. Supply chain of books industry in JP is in the turning point where industry is changing and there are abundant opportunities to make improvements for our customers. Especially there are opportunities to leverage our technologies such as machine learning models to automate multiple aspects of supply chain and inventory management.


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JPLTN1 / N2
Office (ExcelPowerpointWord
KPI

- Bachelors degree in Engineering Business or related field
- 2 years of professional non-internship experience.
- Native Japanese or JPLT N1/N2 and business level English required
- Basic capability for MS Office (analysis using Excel slide creation using Powerpoint document creation using Word)
- Experience with reporting technologies and analytics. Capable of turning raw data into information and insights

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- 4 years of professional non-internship experience.
- Job experience for business planning/supply chain-related field or analyst/consultant experience at a consulting firm
- Job experience for business planning/supply chain-related field or sales experience in the publishing industry
- Possess excellent business judgment strong written and oral communication skills and a practical common sense approach to getting things done.
- Strong analytical abilities and problem solving skills. Ability to work with large complex data sets and familiarity with statistics or other analytical techniques.
- Strong organizational skills including prioritizing scheduling time management and meeting deadlines.
- Experience with improvement techniques such as Kaizen Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma.

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