As the WW Senior Program Manager for Inventory Productivity, your core responsibility is to accelerate our abilities to reduce inventory over-investments. This includes end to end ownership of ideas that prevent over-investment and CX-facing products that reduce defects, all while accounting for Books nuances. You’ll collaborate with other Marketplace Points of Contact (POCs) to drive initiatives across inventory management, design metrics / KPIs, propose tenets, list our current gaps with central teams and design a future roadmap for a defect free supply chain. Additionally, this role will partner with Amazon Supply Chain Optimization & Technologies teams, Data science, Finance, Transportation, CX/UX Design and both external/internal stakeholders.
Key job responsibilities
- Have end-to-end ownership of inventory productivity initiatives, with Senior Leadership goals and roadmap visibility, from conceptualization and design through development and implementation
- Partner with enterprise retail and inventory management teams.
- Think creatively and invent new solutions for excess inventory reduction, including both prevention and response.
- Design long-term supply chain strategies to raise the bar for "optimal inventory productivity", accounting for the nuances of Books customers and vendors.
- Be the central voice of US Books to systems and operations leaders to champion supply chain initiatives and extend them beyond Books across the company.
- Manage diverse stakeholder relationships to gain cross-functional support to deliver results across the supply chain.
About the team
The Books Operational Excellence team operates cross-functionally, partnering closely with Retail, Operations, and Technology teams to deliver results. This is a highly visible position that includes interactions with leaders across the organization – from senior Books leaders through systems and operations managers – to drive alignment and deliver results.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of program or project management experience
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.