Sr Strategic Supply Chain Mgr, Amazon Private Brands

Key job responsibilities

• Own end-to-end supply chain performance for Consumables Private Brands (CPB) and domestic Hardlines Private Brands (HPB), including inventory health metrics such as in-stock rates, operational inventory holdings, and working capital efficiency.
• Partner with Amazon Private Brands category management, regional business managers, and sourcing teams to optimize replenishment cycles and delivery lead-times with domestic vendors.
• Evaluate and determine optimal ordering methods—including full truckload, pallet ordering, and drop ship—based on demand patterns, product size and dimensions, vendor capabilities, and cost-to-serve implications.
• Monitor and own KPIs including Out of Stock rate, Total Inbound Lead Time, and Purchase Order confirmation rates, presenting insights and trends to Senior Leadership.
• Audit buying and forecasting models to ensure accuracy and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaborate with central APB teams including Product Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Engineering, and Supply Chain Tech to leverage tools and insights for data-driven decision making.
• Identify and deliver improvement opportunities around demand planning, inventory flow, and placement optimization across a high-velocity domestic portfolio.
• Champion cost optimization initiatives, operational excellence best practices, and process improvements that reduce Cost-to-Serve and enhance customer experience for both B2C and B2B channels.

About the team

The North America APB Supply Chain team supports all Amazon Private Brands product families across both import and domestic supply chains. Our team partners across Consumables, Hardlines, and Softlines to deliver exceptional supply chain performance, balancing tactical execution with strategic initiatives. We work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment focused on delivering best-in-class availability and speed to customers. The team values customer obsession, ownership, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement. We collaborate closely with APB stakeholders including Quality, Sourcing, Product Development, Business Management, and central teams such as Supply Chain Intelligence, Business Intelligence Engineering, and actively build and leverage AI-powered tools and automation to scale our impact.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of with Excel experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Experience working with complex data sets
• Experience communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of statistics or other analytical techniques
• Experience with SQL
• Bachelor's degree or above in econometrics, statistics, industrial engineering, operations research, optimization, data mining, analytics, or equivalent quantitative field, or experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance
• Experience in creating process improvements with automation and analysis, or experience in identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes
• Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
• Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences