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. This role requires a high degree of organizational skills, self-motivation, and strong analytical capabilities.

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 optimize the shared supply chain, reduce defects, and drive results.
• Enhance long-term relationships, focusing on cost to serve reductions and reducing vendor pain points.
• Identify automation opportunities, improving non-automated processes, and building scalable systems.
• Influence technical teams to drive adoption of standards and creation of tools for 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, and 401(k) matching. For more details, visit https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.