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Amazon Senior Product Manager, JP Books in Tokyo, Japan
Description
Would you like to work in a fastest growing and most innovative businesses at Amazon? Join us to unlock opportunities to make improvements for our customers, especially leveraging new services and cutting-edge technologies to automate multiple aspects of supply chain.
About Books organization
We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. Especially mission for Supply Chain team, which this role belongs to, is to satisfy our customers in Japan by providing the right products with the right quantities, in the right place, at the right time. To meet this goal, Amazon is continually striving to innovate and provide best in class Supply Chain experience through the introduction of pioneering new products and services. Supply chain of books industry in JP is in the turning point where industry is changing and there are abundant opportunities to make improvements for our customers. Especially there are opportunities to leverage cutting edge technologies such as machine learning models to automate multiple aspects of supply chain.
Key job responsibilities
We are seeking a dynamic and organized self-starter to join as a Product Manager to join our team. You will work on driving key initiatives to improve product selection and availability, margins and revenue. This unique role will be responsible for all aspects of developing strategy, planning & implementing initiatives to unlock value propositions for our customers. This includes but not limited to demand forecast, sourcing and inventory planning. This is a senior role with a complex range of products and projects simultaneously. The role also carries a lot of ambiguity and you should be able to prioritize and deliver projects in a constraint environment. You must be fearless but thoughtful in the pursuit of results and thrive in a high energy environment where tactical and strategic activities are expected to be driven in parallel. You must be able to lead and influence both internal and external teams to solve ambiguous problems while maintaining a customer-centric philosophy.
Key responsibilities include:
Work backward from customer’s needs/pain points and translate them into business requirements
Diving deep into internal and external data to understand Supply Chain gaps within Amazon
Create and execute innovative and automated Supply Chain mechanisms and products that can scale locally and worldwide
Work with tech teams and other internal stakeholders in Japan and around the world to develop new customer experiences for growing Japan Book business
Develop and improve key metrics to improve the performance of our selection funnel
Be accountable in internal business performance reviews with senior leaders to identify and deliver necessary improvements
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Tokyo, 13, JPN
Basic Qualifications
5+ years as a Product Manager, Program Manager, or doing Business/Financial Analysis
Bachelor's degree or equivalent and business level English
Proven analytical and quantitative skills, including using data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases, and drive root cause analysis
Strong attention to detail, excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects and responsibilities
Ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity, and manage changing priorities
Excellent teamwork and willing to roll up sleeves to pitch in as needed
Preferred Qualifications
Business level Japanese
MBA from a top tier school
SQL
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