Category Manager, Amazon Style

Description

Seeking an experienced Category Manager who is driven by delighting customers, and curating compelling product assortments that also meet aggressive business targets. This is a truly unique opportunity to play a key role on an important initiative at Amazon. If you want to join a fast-paced, innovative team that is making history and breaking new ground for Amazon, this is the place for you.

We're looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working, and detail-oriented candidate to join our Selection team. The Category Manager will work across all functional areas within our business unit and across other Amazon businesses to launch and grow category performance.

The Category Manager will possess an understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business (this entails owning assessing competitor benchmarks, curating large selection sets, data quality and performance monitoring, understanding, mitigating, and reporting on the vendors and any potential headwinds/tailwinds, etc. to achieve business objectives). The Category Manager will play an important role in driving the P&L for their category, and/or may own the P&L for specific sub-categories. This includes overseeing product selection and life cycle, identifying new opportunities to grow topline or improve assortment productivity, and managing day-to-day relationships with internal and external stakeholders. This role requires an attention to detail, and a high degree of customer and assortment product obsession. Your contributions will have a major impact on the success of our business and greater Amazon.

The candidate possesses experience in buying with a track record of successful relationship management, strong analytical acumen, and experience generating and managing reporting and analysis. Great communication skills and proficiency with Excel will be essential to your success. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who will identify and take ownership of projects and business problems from incubation and drive them to a successful result.

Flexibility and the ability to prioritize in a changing business environment will also be key. Our team culture is goal-oriented, collaborative and driven to achieve results. We seek an individual who is motivated by a fast-paced and highly entrepreneurial environment who is willing to roll up their sleeves and get things done. This is a builder role so this mentality and capability is imperative.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• 3+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
• 3+ years of with Excel experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $58,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $141,100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A2368467