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Amazon.com.br is looking for a smart and driven Instock Manager to join our Mass Vendor Relations team in Brazil. The Instock Manager will be responsible for supporting and executing demand planning, forecasts for the inventory strategies to maximize product availability, margins and inventory turns with highly scalable processes for thousands of vendors. This person will have responsibility for ensuring inventory systems and processes are meeting the needs of the business and implementing controls around these. The right candidate thrives in a high energy environment where tactical and strategic activities are expected to be driven in parallel.

The Instock Manager will be responsible for managing inventory and formulating policies with suppliers to improve inventory health metrics and turns. The Instock Manager will own driving improvement in inventory availability, increasing inventory efficiency, selection growth and improving purchasing processes. The successful candidate possesses superb business judgment, with a track record of successful relationship management, and strong analytical acumen, with experience generating and managing forecasts, reports, and analyses. The position requires an individual who can work autonomously in a highly demanding and often ambiguous environment, with strong attention to detail. The candidate should be able to manage multiple vendors simultaneously and make sure items are always available to our customers in Brazil. This role is located in São Paulo, Brazil.

At Amazon Brazil, we value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in all our job positions. Therefore, we act intentionally so that our internal environment reflects the plurality of the businesses we engage in and the customers we serve. In Brazil, we have a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion squad, which is formed by representatives from different roles and areas, as we understand that this agenda must have different perspectives and multiple experiences. Our leadership is committed and understands more and more their role in sharing and acting on our leadership principles, with the purpose of 'Strive to Be Earth's Best Employer.' Understanding our responsibility and our need for change, we are conscientious that 'Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility.' Our affinity groups are built from and by volunteers from different businesses, and they are an active part of our DE&I strategies definition. Besides that, they act as ambassadors of this agenda, and they will support you from Day 1. Remember, at Amazon 'It’s always Day 1.' Our groups are organized in the following fronts: BEN - Black Employee Network, Women@Amazon, Glamazon (LGBTQIA+), and People With Disabilities.

Key job responsibilities

Inventory & Supply Chain Management:

• Manage the supply chain to guarantee an efficient inbound and outbound inventory flows among: forecasting, purchasing, and solving receipts problems

• Work with vendors to ensure a reliable and operationally effective flow of goods

• Lead the business demand plan to provide all necessary inputs to a sustainable and accurate S&OP

• Deliver maximum available selection in the category

• Design seasonal and promotional inventory preparation plan

• Control budgets and deliver actions to to meet inventory targets

• Recommend and drive action plans to reduce return/liquidation costs

Operational Efficiency:

• Measure and improve purchasing lead times, reduce operational defects, and improve systems to streamline operations between vendors and Amazon

• Perform root cause analysis/reporting on operational issues, develop action plans and manage improvements

Project Management:

• Work with internal teams to drive system, tools and process improvements/ implementation that affect purchasing and vendor management workflow, with emphasis on automating tasks that are currently performed manually

• Develop analysis of key business metrics, with emphasis on developing and executing recommendations for improvement

• Lead projects from initial development to implementation that will streamline supply systems and processes and drive operational improvements.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Sao Paulo, SP, BRA

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working with complex data sets

• Experience communicating results to senior leadership

• Bachelor's degree

• Experience leading process improvement, systems development, and project management

• High level of knowledge with Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of statistics or other analytical techniques

• Experience with SQL