Sr. Manager, Product Management, SCOT Automated Inventory Management (AIM)

SCOT BR AIM Leader - Responsible for driving Automation; Owns day-to-day inventory management decisions and Key Business Outcomes.

The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) team owns Amazons global inventory management systems: we decide how much inventory we should have of every ASIN Amazon carries and where it should be placed in our fulfillment network so that we can delight our customers and meet Amazons business goals. We do this for millions of items and hundreds of product lines worldwide with our decisions impacting 100s of billions of dollars of inventory world-wide. Our systems are built entirely in-house and are on the edge of automated large-scale business inventory and supply chain planning and optimization systems.
SCOT operates on the bleeding edge of supply chain thought leadership and works on the most difficult problems in the industry. Our team consists of the best research scientists and software developers in the business. To maintain Amazons leadership in the industry SCOT fosters continuous improvement advocating game-changing ideas that create ever more intelligent and self-learning systems to maximize the efficiency of Amazons inventory investment and placement decisions. Unlike many companies who buy off-the-shelf planning systems SCOT is responsible for studying designing and building systems to suit Amazons unique evaluation of the value of inventory and our supply chain.
As the Sr. Manager of Automated Inventory Management (AIM) you would own the management of Amazons inventory investment and key business outcomes. You would be responsible for evaluating that our inputs algorithms and processes are executing optimal inventory management decisions flagging where they are not and driving both short-term/long term systemic solutions to achieve optimality. You would manage a team of Product Managers Business Intelligence Engineers and Data Scientists that will gather use case information required to create processes and analytics that bridge the gaps between the actuals and the desired optimal state.
This position is a highly visible role that requires interaction and partnership with senior leaders of Amazon Retail Finance SCOT functional teams and the Operations teams. The output of this team will have material impact on our customers and improve Amazons top and bottom line.
A successful candidate is a person who is able to build and run a team of high functioning technical employees. S/He thrives when diving deep into anomalies discovering issues root causing them and implementing short term solutions to address those issues while designing and delivering long-term solutions. S/He will lead her/his team in customizing business policies and processes as well as developing new methods and functionality to support the future state she is creating.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

Define strategy and build the road map for scaling the inventory management automation function
Own day-to-day inventory management operations and performance of key inventory management outcomes
Research develop document and present new inventory value maximization strategies to all levels of the retail and SCOT organizations
Develop new metrics and performance indicators to evaluate overall inventory performance as required
Own the reporting of the inventory related business metrics
Work with the WW AIM Product Management and Software teams to develop the new features to support the AIM business process and improve the business
Own local business reviews to understand trends develop action plans and monitor our systems performance

- Experience in product or program management product marketing business development or technology
- Experience managing teams
- Bachelors degree
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience with end to end product delivery
- Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product

- Experience engaging and influencing senior executives

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