Merchandising Manager, Produce, Amazon Fresh Grocery

DESCRIPTION Interested in working on an innovative and high-impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery? Amazon is looking for a bright, customer obsessed, and motivated individual to join the Amazon Fresh Stores team.
Amazon Fresh is a new grocery store designed from the ground up to offer a seamless grocery shopping experience, whether customers are shopping in store or online. We've also introduced new ways to make grocery shopping more convenient, including Just Walk Out technology and the Amazon Dash Cart, which enables customers to skip the checkout line, and new Alexa features to help customers manage their shopping lists and better navigate our aisles.
We're looking for an exceptionally motivated and talented Merchandising Manager with strong customer focus, analytical skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit to join the merchandising team. You will help execute, and deliver on detailed plans and timelines, and communicate to leadership on status, risks, and process changes. You will need to thrive and deliver results in an ambiguous, and fast-paced business environment, operating across multiple teams and levels in the organization.
The ideal candidate will have strong customer experience intuition, business and product sense combined with solid understanding of technical concepts. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. High judgment, ability to influence, analytical talent, exceptional communications, and leadership are essential to success in this role.
Key job responsibilities
* Develop, execute and maintain the planograms across multiple categories throughout the year .
* Identify and implement process improvements and opportunities for innovation and simplification in planograms and merchandising processes.
* Coordinate cross-functional teams, and communicate with internal and external partners, while meeting tight deadlines.
* Act as the 'business owner', possessing a thorough understanding of internal and external variables that impact our business.
* Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed goals.
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 - 4+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience
- Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
- Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
- Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
- 4+ years of professional experience as a corporate visual merchandiser, in-store/field visual merchandiser, and/or retail buyer (or similar)