Instock Manager Imports, Global Retail Import

Amazon • Seattle, WA

5d • $82,700 - $128,300 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon is looking for a smart, motivated, and self-driven Instock Manager to join our Global Purchasing Program (GPE) — Amazon's first centralized procurement function that is revolutionizing how we do direct imports for emerging countries. This role offers end-to-end business ownership of an import supply chain: from consolidating global demand across multiple retail stores into a single purchase order, receiving products at origin in China, and distributing inventory across 12+ destination countries spanning North America, Europe, MENA, and APAC. You will develop and implement inventory management strategies that directly unlock selection for hundreds of millions of customers who otherwise couldn't access top products at competitive prices.

The Program
GPE is not your traditional Direct Import channel — it's a strategic, high-growth initiative with triple-digit YoY growth that solves one of Amazon's biggest global challenges: enabling emerging markets to reach vendor MOQs (Minimum Order Quantities) by consolidating demand across the globe. With multiple vendors onboarded, GXD nodes across China and expanding into new origin locations, GPE allows vendors to onboard once and offer to all countries through a single PO — eliminating the need for multiple Vendor Central accounts, catalogues, and redundant processes. Amazon absorbs risk at origin, ensures full on-time payments, and delivers improved production planning for global demand. This is supply chain innovation at its most impactful.

The Role
This individual will partner with various teams across Amazon (Operations, Global Logistics, Supply Chain Technology, SCOT, Retail, and Finance teams) as well as external vendor partners to support critical new business initiatives and drive continuous improvement across our global procurement operations. The scope includes Hardlines and/or Consumables categories, managing inventory health at both GXD (Global Cross Dock) facilities and destination Fulfillment Centers across multiple countries.

Requirements

• 3+ years of with Excel experience
• 4+ years of supply chain, inventory management or project management experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience
• The successful candidate is an innovator, communicator, influencer, and problem solver who takes a data-driven approach to solve complex problems across our global imports supply chain.
• You possess superb business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery and relationship management, deep analytical acumen, and experience generating and managing forecasts, reports, and analyses.
• You thrive in ambiguity and move fast.
• You are highly analytical, flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting, and comfortable with databases and analytical tools.
• You can work autonomously in a fast-paced, highly demanding environment where you'll be building the playbook as you go.
• Since this position involves working with multiple stakeholders across countries and time zones in one of Amazon's fastest-growing global opportunities, we need someone with strong stakeholder management capabilities, great bias for action, excellent written and oral communication skills, and the ability to meet tight deadlines while managing several projects simultaneously.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of the principles of statistical inventory control
• Experience with process improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma

Responsibilities

• Oversee the instock function including forecasting, ordering, capacity management, instock rates and unhealthy inventory management
• Develop and improve import ordering strategies for his/her categories to ensure Amazon meets the optimal mix of domestic and import sourcing.
• Activities towards buying automation and system auditing in partnership with technical and product teams
• Activities on supply chain optimization and defects reduction working with operations teams
• Report, monitor, analyze and own key performance indicators such as vendor import share, out of stock percentages, vendor lead time, fill rate, unhealthy inventory and forecast accuracy for import selection.

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