Senior Instock Manager, OHL

Description

We are seeking an experienced, results-oriented Sr. Instock Manager for the Hardlines Categories in GCC. This person will be responsible for solving complex supply chain and inventory management problems, optimizing and creating new internal processes and partnering with large retail managed vendors on improving operational efficiencies. We are looking for candidates with passion for innovation, process simplification, large-scale impact and operational improvements with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, able to manage multiple projects and cooperate with stakeholders, planning, prioritizing and delegating appropriate tasks.This is a high visibility, high impact role requiring strong communication (written & verbal) and the ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Vendor Management, SCOT, Finance and Operations. Successful candidates will be those able to prioritize well, display Ownership, Dive Deep, Invent and Simplify and have a consistent track record of delivering results.

As Senior Instock Manager, you will focus on delivering improvements at the GCC level, partnering with vendors and various functional teams and individuals at all levels of the organization to improve internal and external processes while continuously improving operational metrics. You will own the relationship of a set of Hardlines vendors and related long-term Supply Chain optimization goals, with the aim of reducing our overall cost to serve, contributing to the growth and scale of the category and to maximize the service level for our customers.

In order to be successful in this position, you need to be comfortable driving business decisions in a high pressure and often ambiguous work environment, challenging the status quo to improve existing processes and customer experience.

Key job responsibilities

Identify and pursue process improvement opportunities, with a special focus on supply planning processes, working with vendors, vendor operations, and inventory management

Be a leader beyond the own categories by scaling best practices introduced at the highest possible level, ideally world-wide, and by supporting new tools/processes deployment

Create a sourcing strategy for owned vendors that optimizes for availability and cost

Participate in manufacturer and vendor reviews

Drive process improvement and operational excellence within our vendor community by reducing costs, defects, and lead times, while increasing innovation, automation, and economies of scale

Interact with operations teams and drive efficiencies through team collaboration

Manage large scale data to drive decision making;

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of with Excel experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Experience working with complex data sets
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of statistics or other analytical techniques
• Experience with SQL
  
  
  

Company - Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC

Job ID: A2807404