In-stock Manager, Amazon Merch on Demand

Amazon • Carrollton, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Merch on Demand is a leader in print-on-demand services. If you'd like to
help us build a dynamic print-on-demand platform, this is your chance to help
make history. In this rapidly growing fast paced environment, we are looking for
a motivated, organized self-starters with an entrepreneur spirit, to join our
team as an In-Stock Manager, at our Carrollton, TX location.

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role within the supply chain. We are
looking for a passionate leader with proven experience complex modeling, tool
automation, and collaborating with stakeholders. In this role, you will define
and implement our in-stock strategy across apparel, hardline, and consumable
products. The right candidate is detail-oriented, has experience implementing
automation tools, and builds strong relationships.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 2+ years of supply chain, inventory management or project management experience
• 2+ years of with Excel experience

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of statistical analysis
• Experience with process improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma
• Master's degree or above in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance
• Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices
• Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences

Responsibilities

• Owns purchasing and purchasing metrics for assigned sites, including on-time ordering, truck schedule attainment, site fullness, vendor consumption vs plan, invoice holds, and out of stock reason codes.
• Owns driving improvement in inventory health, purchasing efficiency, and costs reduction.
• Acts as a liaison, resolving any issues that may arise with site-level supply.
• Builds systemic and process requirements for 3P storage, inventory transfers, and our catalog.
• May be requested to build purchase order plans and truck schedules, referencing vendor forecast and warehouse closures.
• Owns site-level risk-tracking, with bridges including domestic expedites and site transfers.
• Conducts weekly reviews with stakeholders, communicating in-stock risk where applicable.
• Maintains SKU-level deactivations, reactivations, and inventory thresholds based on site-level inventory availability and sales.
• Owns the management of aged inventory for sites, seeking necessary approvals.
• Identifies opportunities to work with internal technical teams to influence process changes.
• Creates applicable Assistant Buyer procedures, across all purchase and risk tracking tools.
• References key performance dashboards, noting risk to target metrics and in-stock.
• Maintains and improves purchase automation tools across softlines, hardlines, and consumable products in partnership with senior technical resources.
• As requested, creates purchasing tools, risk track reports and automation proposals.
• May contribute to forecasting and planning tasks.
• Owns strategic projects aligned with career development.
• Projects may include: vendor performance analytics, automation tool development, peak planning optimization, reporting dashboard creation, or assortment analysis.
• Delivers measurable business impact through project completion with cross-functional stakeholder engagement.
• Creates domestic new product purchase plans, ensuring products arrive at Merch sites as expected.
• In collaboration with sourcing, executes product deprecation strategies.
• Sets up items in our warehouse management system.
• Collaborates with stakeholders, on product types to print at each warehouse based on capacity and speed.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level