Senior Program Manager - Inventory Productivity, WW Books & Kindle Content - Amazon

Description The Kindle Content and Physical Books team is looking for a passionate and visionary Senior Program Manager who can innovate and solve interesting and complex business opportunities that will have a direct impact to the Books P&L and help advance our vision of becoming best in class for operational and sustainability excellence. As the WW Senior Program Manager for Inventory Productivity, your core responsibility is to accelerate our abilities to reduce inventory over-investments. This includes end to end ownership of ideas that prevent over-investment and CX-facing products that reduce defects, all while accounting for Books nuances. You'll collaborate with other Marketplace Points of Contact (POCs) to drive initiatives across inventory management, design metrics / KPIs, propose tenets, list our current gaps with central teams and design a future roadmap for a defect free supply chain. Additionally, this role will partner with Amazon Supply Chain Optimization & Technologies teams, Data science, Finance, Transportation, CX/UX Design and both external/internal stakeholders. Key job responsibilities - Have end-to-end ownership of inventory productivity initiatives, with Senior Leadership goals and roadmap visibility, from conceptualization and design through development and implementation - Partner with enterprise retail and inventory management teams. - Think creatively and invent new solutions for excess inventory reduction, including both prevention and response. - Design long-term supply chain strategies to raise the bar for "optimal inventory productivity", accounting for the nuances of Books customers and vendors. - Be the central voice of US Books to systems and operations leaders to champion supply chain initiatives and extend them beyond Books across the company. - Manage diverse stakeholder relationships to gain cross-functional support to deliver results across the supply chain. About the team The Books Operational Excellence team operates cross-functionally, partnering closely with Retail, Operations, and Technology teams to deliver results. This is a highly visible position that includes interactions with leaders across the organization - from senior Books leaders through systems and operations managers - to drive alignment and deliver results. Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of program or project management experience - Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements - Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership Preferred Qualifications - 2+ years of driving process improvements experience - Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.