Sr. Instock Manager, Cross Border inventory transfer

Sr. Instock Manager

As the Sr. Instock Manager, you will own instock metrics such as availability and inventory health, defining and executing a buying strategy for a cross border inventory program. This involves understanding SCOT buying systems and working with emerging countries on aligning strategies to improve availability. Your role will involve partnering with product managers, program managers, in-stock managers, and vendor managers across Europe and South Africa to drive the above metrics.

In this role, you need to be able to lead and influence multiple stakeholders in an ambiguous environment, while maintaining a customer-centric philosophy. In this critical role, you are going to help redefine supply chain to align it with Amazon procurement systems and to bring collaboration with both vendors and existing Amazon FC network to a next level. You will be involved in all aspects of instock, operational management, and supply chain optimization.

The successful candidate possesses strong analytical acumen, with experience generating reports and analyses. The position requires an individual who supports decisions in a highly demanding and often ambiguous environment, with strong attention to detail. The candidate continuously learns and contributes to knowledge management. SQL and Excel proficiency required. Key job responsibilities include delivering buying efficiency and effectiveness and availability improvement, performing root cause analysis/reporting on forecasting/operational issues, developing action plans and managing improvements, leading collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment processes with retail and program teams, working with responsible country teams to meet the business demand plans via assessing deal and opportunity buys, recommending and driving action plans to increase inventory turns, working with internal teams to drive system, tools, and process improvements/implementations that affect purchasing and vendor management workflow, with emphasis on automating tasks that are currently performed manually, and developing analysis of key business metrics, with emphasis on developing and executing recommendations for improvement.