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Category Manager, Amazon Fresh Grocery

Amazon

Amazon

United States · Arlington, VA, USA · New York, NY, USA · Seattle, WA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago

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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 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 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