Amazon is looking for a smart, motivated, and self-driven Instock Manager to join our Global Direct Imports team for emerging countries. He or she will have responsibility for end-to-end business ownership of the import supply chain processes from manufacturer to the availability in our Fulfillment Centers and for developing and implementing inventory management strategies to optimize customer experience, sales and margin.

Direct Imports is a strategic initiative for Amazon with long-term business impact and triple digit growth YoY. This individual will partner with various teams across Amazon (Operations, Global Logistics, Supply Chain Technology, Retail and Finance teams) as well as external partners to support critical new business initiatives and drive continuous improvement in all aspects of our program. The scope of the program includes Hardlines and/or Consumables categories.

The successful candidate is an innovator, communicator, influencer and problem solver who takes a data-driven approach to solve complex problems across our Imports supply chain.

The candidate possesses superb business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery and relationship management, deep analytical acumen, with experience generating and managing forecasts, reports, and analyses. The position requires an individual who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and often ambiguous environment. The candidate possesses highly analytical individual, flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting, and comfortable with computer databases and tools.

Additionally since this position involves working with multiple stakeholders in a fast growing opportunity within Direct Imports, we need someone with strong stakeholder management capabilities and ownership with great bias for action in getting things done, with strong written and oral communication skills and that is able to meet tight deadlines while working on several projects simultaneously. The position provides opportunities to influence high visibility/impact areas throughout the organization.

About the hiring group

The International Expansions team is responsible for helping to launch new Amazon marketplaces around the world. Our Global Retail Imports program is focused on working with top vendors through direct imports for emerging countries.
Our team is based in Mexico and Seattle. We work closely with our stakeholder teams in Australia, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and US.

Key job responsibilities

1. Oversee the instock function including forecasting, ordering, capacity management, instock rates and unhealthy inventory management
2. Develop and improve import ordering strategies for his/her categories to ensure Amazon meets the optimal mix of domestic and import sourcing.
3. Activities towards buying automation and system auditing in partnership with technical and product teams
4. Activities on supply chain optimization and defects reduction working with operations teams
5. Report, monitor, analyze and own key performance indicators such as vendor import share, out of stock percentages, vendor lead time, fill rate, unhealthy inventory and forecast accuracy for import selection.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of supply chain, buying, inventory management.
• Excel proficiency.
• Project management experience.
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English.
• Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the principles of statistical inventory control
• Experience with process improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma

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