Category Manager/Buyer

DESCRIPTION

Love food? Interested in working on an innovative and high-impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery? Passionate about selecting grocery products that customers will love? Amazon is looking for an experienced, customer-obsessed Category Manager to join the Amazon Fresh team. Amazon Fresh is a grocery store designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping in-store or online. At Amazon Fresh Grocery (AFG), we are pioneering the next generation of customer services, offering ultra-fast delivery, disruptive in-store technology, and fresh selection across grocery, pantry staples, and household essentials. The Category Manager (CM) will manage the P&L for multiple categories, select assortment for digital and physical shelves, plan and execute promotional strategies, and set the strategic direction for their business. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that proactively looks for opportunities to improve their business and deliver more for customers. They stay on top of industry and competitive trends, leverage customer insights, and execute at both a tactical and strategic level. Exceptional communication and organizational skills are musts. Key job responsibilities
-Manage a full P&L across multiple categories
-Select the assortment for Fresh's digital and physical shelves for multiple categories, making sure to optimize sales and profitability
-Develop the category strategies for their business by digging deep into industry, internal, and customer data to identify opportunities for growth
-Identify industry trends and develop innovative marketing and merchandising initiatives to support growth
- Own the promotional strategy and planning across all channels including identifying key events and time periods to target, selecting the assortment, determining the deal price, communicating plans to cross-functional partners, and reporting out on results
-Resolve defects that may be blocking intended assortment from being shoppable to customers
-Collaborate with cross-functional teams that support business needs, including marketing, merchandising, in-stock, and central support teams to ensure flawless execution We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree
- Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze large sets of data
- 2+ years of retail buying experience