Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Description

Category Managers at Amazon have end to end responsibility of the customer experience and growth of their category. Amazon strives to present its customers with the widest selection of products at the best prices. Category managers anticipate their customer needs and incorporate them into the business roadmap and own end-to-end execution with stakeholders including brands and sellers. They will also drive major changes or enhancement for customer experience influencing category needs based on their knowledge of competitive trends in the marketplace and other macro environment data.

Key job responsibilities

The successful candidate will be the business owner, with responsibility for signing the right mix of selection in partnership with sellers & brands, adding unique selection, driving traffic conversion, relevant promotion constructs while delivering top notch customer experience on catalog as well. They must be an effective leader and communicator working with our most important partners, as well as with internal colleagues and groups. They will have strong business judgment with a track record of strong ownership values and relationship management skills. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on a new business challenge. s a Category Manager in Apparel, you will focus on delivering a world-class customer experience and exceptional sales growth and customer experience for the brands/sub-categories that you are responsible for as we rapidly expand and grow our selection from around the world. The person who joins this team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building stakeholder relationships. Some understanding of planning product cycles and selling online/marketing is preferred. The right candidate will be flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting and have strong analytical skills.

A day in the life

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at:

• Defining and implementing strategies

• Driving an online business

• Brand management

• Managing internal and external stakeholders

• Planning and forecasting

• Written & verbal communication

• Negotiation and influencing stakeholders

He or she must be able to develop clear thinking and business rationale for new features & services to bring customers ease-of-use and innovation with a razor-sharp focus on solving for the customer while driving operational excellence in execution. The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with Amazon’s most important partners and vendors, internal colleagues.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• Graduate/Masters in Business Administration with 2 to 5 years of relevant experience in category/account management/brand management/vendor management/consulting /consumer or customer marketing /Online or retail sales

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Proven negotiation skills, influencing abilities

• Detail oriented with strong analytical aptitude

• Proven experience leading cross-functional projects

• Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment

• Technical aptitude and agility to learn web-based tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional experience in Managing Fashion brands in e-commerce and Experience in incubating and driving customer facing programs at scale