DESCRIPTION Love food? Interested in working on an innovative and high-impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery? Passionate about managing schedules and timelines + tracking execution in an ambiguous environment with evolving priorities? Amazon is looking for a bright, customer obsessed, and motivated individual 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.
Looking for an experienced and detail-oriented Category Manager sought by Amazon Fresh team to spearhead a Pantry staples business, managing end-to-end operations, vendor relationships, and strategic growth initiatives. Accountable for business results, the role involves optimizing product portfolios, negotiating contracts, and driving sales and margin improvements while ensuring top-notch customer experiences.
Key job responsibilities
• Develop and lead weekly, monthly, and annual business reviews and sales planning processes.
• Establish and lead implementation of category learnings, insight and business strategies, driving prioritization and mitigation of risks substantiated and balanced by sound business/market rationale and thought leadership.
• Manage and own the promotional strategy and planning across all channels including iteration, developing a bundling strategy, modeling, forecasting, and post-analysis reporting to inform our decision making on future programs.
• Identify new approaches for growing the business, driving initiatives to increase category awareness, and creating processes to better manage the performance of the category over the long term.
• Partner with retail teams in offline and online channels regarding strategic business planning, identifying opportunities, and evaluating marketing solutions that drive profitable sales growth.
• Partner with sales in crafting analysis, actions, and messaging for key strategic topics, as well as monthly/quarterly business review meetings.
• Foster and facilitate alignment across the sales and marketing business unit around data and insights to develop the view on global growth and household formation.
• Work closely with Planning and Marketing teams to imbue business cases with objective strategic rationale for build/forecasting meetings.
About the team
Amazon Fresh is where we are passionate about revolutionizing the grocery shopping experience. We are a team of talented professionals dedicated to reshaping how customers access and enjoy fresh, high-quality products. At Amazon Fresh, we embrace a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment that encourages creativity, agility, and a commitment to delivering unparalleled service in the rapidly evolving world of online grocery. Together, we are building the future of convenience and customer satisfaction at the intersection of technology and everyday essentials.
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 - 3+ years of with Excel experience
- 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
- Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience
- Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
