Manager Category Manager, OHL, Home

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Description

Category Managers at Amazon have end to end responsibility of the customer experience and growth of their category. Amazon strives to present its customers with the widest selection of products at the best prices. Manager, Category manager anticipate their customer needs and incorporate them into the business roadmap and own end-to-end execution with stakeholders including brands and sellers. They will also drive major changes or enhancement for customer experience influencing category needs based on their knowledge of competitive trends in the marketplace and other macro environment data. In addition to managing the business and growth, they also own the P&L and sustainability of their business on the platform with clear ideas on opportunities to reduce business waste and drive overall free cash flow for their domain of business.

Responsibilities Include

The successful candidate will be the business owner, with responsibility for signing the right mix of selection in partnership with sellers, adding unique selection, driving traffic conversion, relevant promotion constructs while delivering top notch customer experience on catalog as well. She / he must be an effective leader and communicator working with our most important partners, as well as with internal colleagues and groups. She / he will have strong business judgment with a track record of strong ownership values and relationship management skills. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on a new business challenge.

As a Manager, Category Manager in Home Improvement, you will focus on delivering a world-class customer experience and exceptional sales and margin growth for the sub-categories that you are responsible for as we rapidly expand and grow our selection from around the world. You will be managing a team of 10+ members across Category Managers, brand managers and category associates.

The person who joins this team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in managing teams, forging and building stakeholder relationships. Understanding of planning product cycles, selling online and P&L is preferred. The right candidate will be flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting and have strong analytical skills. He or she must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment. He or She should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions.

The Candidate Must Demonstrate The Ability To Succeed At

Managing a large team and fostering a culture of risk taking and growth

Defining and implementing strategies via BRDs or PRFAQs

Driving an online business with understanding of P&L

Managing internal and external stakeholders

Planning and forecasting

He or she must be able to develop clear thinking and business rationale for new features & services to bring customers ease-of-use and innovation with a razor sharp focus on solving for the customer while driving operational excellence in execution. The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with some of Amazon's most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups. The candidate must have a desire to participate in change and appreciate a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities. We are seeking someone with demonstrated history of successful project ownership using customer data to identify and prioritize opportunities.

Candidate will own one of the critical businesses for Home Improvement business responsible for success of both immediate as well as long term strategy.

Key job responsibilities

The successful candidate will be the business owner, with responsibility for signing the right mix of selection in partnership with sellers, adding unique local selection, driving traffic conversion and margin improvements while delivering top notch customer experience. She / He must be an effective leader and communicator working with our most important partners, as well as with internal colleagues and groups. He or she will have strong business judgment with a track record of strong ownership values and relationship management skills.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of team management experience
• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion or inventory management
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
• Experience at a senior level in the fashion industry ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management or consulting role

Preferred Qualifications

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Skills Required

Inventory Management, Team Management, Program Management, Account Management