Sr Manager Product Manager, Merchandising, NA AFS Ops - In-Store Product

Sr Manager Product Manager, Merchandising, NA AFS Ops - In-Store Product

Are you a builder who thrives in a fast-paced, startup environment? Do you enjoy working cross-functionally to improve experiences for customers? The Amazon Fresh In-Store Product team is looking for a Sr. Manager, Product Manager to lead the development and scaling of Associate Tools. This role will own developing the tooling vision and collaborating with partners to drive the implementation of the long-term roadmap, and drive teams to execute on that vision. Our team serves as the voice of the associate as we advocate for a bar-raising CX through improved product experiences and streamlined tooling. A successful candidate thinks big by defining the long-term vision for their space, dives deep to understand key drivers and associate pain-points in our current experience, and delivers results by building and executing against a roadmap of features in partnership with Tech, Central Program Teams, Category and Operations Teams. This role works across both 1P and 3P tools with a core focus on merchandising authoring (Blue Yonder) and execution.

The Sr. Manager, Product Manager aligns teams towards clear priorities and advocates for investment delivering large, complex business initiatives, with clear mechanisms that audit progress towards shared goals and regularly reports results to ensure long-term business success. This leader collaborates across Director level organizations including Store Operations, Category, Engineering and others to join forces and accelerate Business Priorities. The role will successfully and confidently manage evolving and complex demands, build scalable solutions, and innovate on behalf of our customers.

The Sr. Manager, Product Manager is a bar-raising communicator, both verbal and written, and is a well-respected leader within the business. This role requires the ability to influence across stakeholder teams to drive alignment and requires a highly effective and established leader to navigate effectively while also growing and developing their team. This role requires clear articulation of complex problems and proposed solutions and requires high judgement to ensure the right leaders are involved in decisions and regularly informed on progress.

The ideal candidate has experience in Blue Yonder or other similar planogram solutions. They are a self-starter and comfortable conceptualizing and leading complex initiatives from end to end. They should have experience in grocery, workflow-based tools, and large-scale implementations. They should be comfortable collaborating with a broad set of stakeholders including category and engineering teams.

Key job responsibilities

1. Drive improvements in both processes and technology to help merchandisers.
2. Drive thought leadership on ways to automate and simplify existing processes and tools used across the Amazon Fresh Stores network.
3. Balance the business need versus technical/operational constraints.
4. Create scalable programs and processes that can be implemented, consistently executed, and measured.
5. Provide business requirements, feedback, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on new products and merchandising software feature enhancements.

Minimum Requirements

1. 12+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
2. 6+ years of team management experience
3. Bachelor's degree
4. Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
5. Experience with end to end product delivery
6. Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
7. Experience engaging and influencing senior executives

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $160,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $265,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit here.

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.