The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) team owns Amazon’s global inventory management systems. We decide how much inventory we should have of every product Amazon carries and where it should be placed in our fulfillment network so that we can delight our customers and meet Amazon’s business goals. Our large-scale automated inventory systems are built entirely in-house and are pioneering the space of supply chain planning and optimization systems. The Automated Inventory Management (AIM) team owns ensuring that the SCOT systems achieve the best possible business outcome through automated auditing of inputs, outputs, and executions of our Supply Chain decisions.

As AIM Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring our inputs, algorithms, and processes are executing optimal inventory management decisions. When they are not, you will drive both short-term fixes and long term systemic solutions to achieve optimal business outcomes. You will work with a team of Product Managers, Business Intelligence Engineers, Development Engineers and Data Scientists to build products, processes and analytics that bridge the gaps between the actuals and the desired, optimal state. You will analyze the potential customer and financial impacts of these projects, prioritize them, and create a roadmap to deliver them.

This is a highly visible role that requires partnering with worldwide Retail, Finance and Operations teams to impact Amazon’s bottom line at scale. You must possesses superb business judgment, Retail or operations management experience, strong stakeholder management skills, have project management experience and be comfortable with driving multiple and diverse projects in complex environments.

You must have experience and capability to prepare documentation for senior executives and align your roadmap with Amazon’s strategic objectives. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a necessity. Successful candidates should excel at diving into data in order to analyze root causes and implement simple, long term solutions. The ideal candidate is a leader who can prioritize, communicate clearly, and who understands how to nurture the focus, excellence, and alignment across teams to deliver on the AIM team’s vision.

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