Category Manager, Personal Care Appliances

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. The Category Manager will work on offering dedicated support to top-tiered brands to grow with Amazon by identifying and improving key customer inputs for growth such as content, marketing and stock availability among others. Apart from this, the Category Manager will also help brands leverage Amazon’s tools and programs to improve on their business inputs.
We are seeking creative, goal-oriented and highly entrepreneurial people to join our exciting and fast-paced team.

About the Role:

Category Managers at Amazon have end to end responsibility of the customer experience and growth of their category. Amazon strives to present its customers with the widest selection of products at the best prices. Category managers anticipate their customer needs and incorporate them into the business roadmap and own end-to-end execution with stakeholders including brands and sellers. They will also drive major changes or enhancement for customer experience influencing category needs based on their knowledge of competitive trends in the marketplace and other macro environment data.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities Include
The successful candidate will be the business owner, with responsibility for signing the right mix of selection in partnership with sellers, adding unique selection, driving traffic conversion, relevant promotion constructs while delivering top notch customer experience on catalog as well. They must be an effective leader and communicator working with our most important partners, as well as with internal colleagues and groups. They will have demonstrated business judgment with a track record of ownership values and relationship management skills. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on a new business challenge.
As a Category Manager in Personal Care Appliances, you will focus on delivering a world-class customer/seller experience and exceptional P&L delivery for the sub-categories that you are responsible..
The person who joins this team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building stakeholder relationships. Understanding of product cycles and selling online is preferred. They will be flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting and have skilled analytical abilities. They must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment. They should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions.
They must demonstrate the ability to succeed at:

Defining and implementing strategies
Driving an online business
Managing internal and external stakeholders
Planning and forecasting
Developing and demonstrating clear thinking for introducing/adopting new features to drive a high bar on customer experience and seller experience/compliance

They must be an effective communicator in working with some of Amazon's most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of with Excel experience
- Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
- Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
- Knowledge of Excel and extracting data through varied reporting tools in order to drive and influence business decisions

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
- Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development

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