Strategic Supply Chain Manager, Amazon EU fresh and Perishable Grocery Instock

Overview

We are seeking a talented, dedicated, and highly analytical Strategic Supply and Demand Planner to drive selection and in-stock for Amazon UK Fresh programs. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role on an important initiative  Strategic Supply and Demand Planner will be responsible for executing inventory strategies to optimize customer experience, sales, margin and turns, and will be relentlessly focused on delivering high in-stock rates to meet our customers' needs.

• Maintain excellent in-stock rates for owned category and/or region.
• Execute inventory strategies to optimize sales, turns, and inventory health.
• Monitor, analyze and own key performance indicators such as in-stock rate, procurement lead time (PLT), fill rate, forecast accuracy and turns.
• Forecast and manage efficient inbound and outbound inventory flows and health, including forecasting, purchasing, and removing unproductive inventory.
• Drive root cause analysis/reporting on operational issues, develop action plans and project manage improvements with the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Work with internal teams collaboratively to help drive tools and process improvements that affect purchasing and procurement workflows, with emphasis on automating tasks that are currently performed manually.
• Dive deep into core drivers of in-stock performance and proactively identify opportunities to improve tools and workflows.
• Interact closely with retail and operations business partners across Amazon, playing a pivotal role in the growth of this strategic initiative.

• Experience doing one of several roles: quantitative/financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, pricing, marketing or e-commerce.
• Experience in data-driven business operations processes.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel at an advanced level, including pivot tables, macros, index/match, vlookup, VBA, data links, etc.
• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• Experience in retail, project management, supply chain, inventory management, sourcing, finance and/or consulting.
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, etc.
• Experience using data to drive root cause elimination and process improvement.
• Experience building and managing financial models for business forecasting and problem solving, or experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• Experience in retail, operations and/or business management.
• Experience in manufacturing, production, distribution logistics environments, retail, or grocery management roles.

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