Instock Manager, Amazon Devices, IN Devices Full Time

Amazon Devices India is hiring an Instock Manager for its portfolio of devices and accessories which include Alexa enabled Echo smart speakers, Fire TV sticks, and Kindle e-readers. This role sits within the India Devices Marketing & Sales organization and is the subject matter expert for supply planning, inventory allocation, order management and channel support for Amazon Devices. It is responsible for recommending, scoping and delivering process improvements, automation and customer experience improvements within the team’s project roadmap, and for proposing think big ideas that influence the team’s strategic priorities.

You are a self-starter and have strong analytical and communication skills and thrive working amongst a broad, diverse and international set of stakeholders. You have robust project management skills and have a track record of delivering quality work. You have demonstrated you can manage ambiguity, have a passion for testing new initiatives and for scaling your learnings to other teams. You prefer to work smart vs. working hard and lean into mechanisms to make processes more efficient.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage our end-to-end inventory planning processes and workflows across the devices network for Amazon Devices
• Manage and own inventory planning for the overall product lifecycle from new product launches to end-of-life
• Create and implement inventory allocation strategies to optimize inventory placement, sales, turns, and customer experience
• Act as account manager for our seller partners through which we distribute our products to end customers
• Partner regularly with a broad set of stakeholders including WW planning teams, Sales teams, Finance, Marketing and more
• Act as advisor to WW tech teams, ensuring that India use cases and best practices are included in their roadmaps
• Own and communicate demand insights and supply allocation plans to key cross-functional internal stakeholders
• Facilitate data-driven decision-making with sales and marketing leaders
• Invent and simplify processes to ensure we are constantly improving operations for our internal and external customers
• Propose think big ideas that influence the team’s strategic priorities

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of with Excel experience
• 4+ years of supply chain, inventory management or project management experience
• Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience

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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Company – AWIPL – Karnataka

Job ID: A10399769