Amazon's Worldwide Stores organization is seeking a Senior Division Merchandise Manager (DMM) to join our talented team reshaping the retail industry through its commitment to meeting evolving customer needs. You can anticipate a customer first, Day 1 culture rooted in innovation and willingness to challenge the status quo. As an organization, we create seamless and convenient shopping experiences that help customers save time and money. We continually strive to provide customers with great selection, value, and convenience across general merchandise and everyday essentials, including groceries, both online and in physical stores. In this role you will hire and lead a talented team of Category Managers and Merchandisers responsible for setting the selection, merchandising, and commercial strategy for a portion of the Amazon Worldwide Stores P&L.
Candidates for this role will have a broad skill set, with demonstrated career progression and a proven track record of delivering results. You possess strong analytical acumen, superb business judgment, and a propensity to dive deep to solve complex problems. You must understand competitive and industry landscapes, rooted in commercial experience, and have a proven ability to create great customer experiences. You must be entrepreneurial, innovative, and excel at “thinking big,” while also recognizing the need to coordinate your team’s activities within the established structure of a large, fast-growing company. The ability to think creatively to solve complex problems is critical to success. You will feel energized when faced with ambiguity and able to execute at both a tactical and strategic level with a strong attention to detail.
The ideal candidate will also have demonstrated how they can hire, inspire, and develop a team of leaders and managers to reach their potential. You will bring a proven track record of building and developing people/organizations, making data-driven decisions, identifying and adding process improvements, fostering strong partnerships, advocating on behalf of our customers, and being able to influence without authority with partner teams. This role requires a high degree of written and verbal communication with senior Amazon leadership as well as internal and external partners at all organizational levels
Key job responsibilities
* Setting goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision
* Managing a full P&L, including planning, forecasting and driving growth for the category, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business
* Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvements, innovation, and scale within the category and in partnership across the Retail business
* Leading cross functional collaboration on necessary systems and processes to support business needs, including retail systems, site merchandising and in-stock
* Driving long term strategic relationships with senior Amazon and external vendor executive teams
* Hiring, developing and leading a team of Category and Merchandising Managers
