Category Manager - Amazon Now

As a category manager for Amazon Now, this role will handle the non-fresh category for Amazon's recent Q-commerce service, Amazon Now. This role will be responsible to collaborate internally with all Amazon functions and ensure we have the right selection, prices, promos, activities for q-commerce while delivering on growth, basket penetration, and margin objectives.

Key job responsibilities
 Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities for the organization
 Work with Retail PF/Category Leaders to identify optimum selection mix to drive top-line & bottom-line on Grocery / Non-Grocery portfolio
 Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection, profitability, Pricing, Availability
 Post launches, Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor, Ops, Advertising)
 Define selection assortment, continuously refine the mix to improve space utilization
 Engage with Retail team to source deals during Tier 1 & Tier 2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
 Collaborate with retail category teams to ensure content quality is best in class to improve conversion
 Negotiate category marketing funds from vendors (via retail category team) for category visibility during BAU/Events.
 Partner with Retail Category team to ensure ask is part of Annual Retail JBP for common vendors
 Collaborate with Ads team to ensure Amazon gets a fair share of Brand Ads investment

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development

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