Jobs for People with MS: National MS Society

Description

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online.

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want – low prices, vast selection, and convenience – Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

ARIPL (Amazon Retail India Pvt Ltd) is hiring for an Instock Manager, to operate for P3 (Produce, Perishables and Proteins) category. There is significant complexity across product formats as we take the lead in solving for customer's needs and balance profitability with growth. The role requires comfort with influencing across functional and operational and product teams. Amazon has made a global commitment to investing in this space, fueling pioneering inventions. We are looking for a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working, and creative candidate to join our team. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on a start-up business team.

About the Role:

We are looking for a talented, smart, and enthusiastic Instock Manager with a strong customer focus to manage inventory planning, and project management for ARIPL. Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. Instock Manager will oversee planning and inventory management as well as drive analysis and optimization of inventory management systems and processes to ensure we achieve world class inventory availability and inventory health. Additionally, the Instock Manager will drive initiatives that improve sales, customer experience, and operational performance. The ISM will work closely with our Vendor Managers, Product Management, and other Amazon Business units and our vendors to improve customers’ in-store experience.

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

Manage inventory availability and inventory health including: improved in-stock rates, inventory planning & Shrinkages

Partner with internal teams to help create and drive tools and process improvements that affect purchasing and vendor management workflow

Drive process improvement and operational excellence within our vendor community by reducing costs, defects, and lead times, while increasing innovation, automation, and economies of scale

Partner with vendor managers in driving sales and profitability growth

Drive complex business analysis that identifies opportunities to improve cost structure and profitability

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

Bengaluru, KA, IND

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of with Excel experience

• 4+ years of supply chain, inventory management or project management experience

• Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the principles of statistical inventory control

• Experience with process improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma