Inventory Manager, WWGS Protein Inventory Management

About the role

The Inventory Manager is responsible for developing plans and executing on initiatives that support excellent inventory management, build an effective supply chain, and drive successful interactions with partner teams. Key responsibilities include collaborating with internal stakeholders, working with manufacturers to optimize the supply chain, enhancing relationships with vendors, identifying automation opportunities, influencing technical teams, and driving cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal stakeholders in category management, category instock, supply chain, operations, and product management to collaborate on supply chain improvement initiatives.
• Work with manufacturers to prioritize the customer experience by optimizing the shared supply chain, reducing defects, and driving results.
• Enhance long-term relationships, working on cost to serve reductions and reducing vendor pain points.
• Identify automation opportunities, improving non-automated processes, and building to scale.
• Influence technical teams to drive adoption of standards and creation of tools to manage: inventory health, item-level forecasting, purchase order quality, vendor self-service, and supply chain operations.
• Develop plans that drive revenue and margin improvement with vendors.
• Build the tech roadmap with vendors and drive implementation of tech initiatives to improve forecasting, buying, reporting, and operations processes.
• Build and maintain knowledge management tools.
• Apply critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to identify and resolve supply and demand imbalances, developing and recommending actionable solutions.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives through influence and collaboration, taking ownership of projects and ensuring peer accountability for deliverables that directly impact in-stock metrics and customer experience.
• Travel up to 25% of the time.

Requirements

• 3+ years of supply chain, inventory management or project management experience
• Experience in Excel with advanced proficiency (pivots, lookups, etc.)
• Knowledge of SQL at an intermediate level, including: compile queries, subqueries, aggregation/grouping, data modification, etc.

Qualifications

• Highly organized, self-starting, and possesses strong data extraction and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated passion for the customer experience.
• Results-oriented and able to manage both strategic and tactical activities in parallel.
• Knowledge of fundamental business principles and previous retail experience preferred.

Skills

• Strong leadership and influence skills
• Ability to work in an ambiguous fast-paced environment
• Passion for the customer experience

Benefits

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.