Planning & Ops Mgr, SIMS

Planning & Ops Mgr, SIMS

We are looking for a dynamic, organized and self-starting Planning and Ops manager for Center of Excellence team within Inventory management team who can drive innovation, set up the processes and execute in the space of inventory management for a premium seller cohort (P3P sellers) for Amazon India business within marketplace business model.
You will closely work with seller leaders to drive short/mid/long term solutions to address the inventory management by enabling right product/tech, driving process excellence and improving seller/vendor experience to support scalable growth and strategic business advantage.


This is a cross functional role with significant influence requirement across Amazon internal and external (Seller) stakeholders. In this role, you will be in-charge of driving end-to-end system/process improvements working with Seller ISMs, SC Ops teams, vendor operations, and delivering on key operation programs which makes the Amazon India business sustainable and profitable in the long term. You will create, write and review business cases, perform supporting research and analysis, and develop solutions from conceptualization to execution and monitoring.
This position requires strong self-motivation, self-starting and project management skills. The ideal candidate will have the ability to work closely with all the category leaders, internal Operations and Product leaders across strategy and execution to solve complex in-bounding and inventory management problems. The candidate will have ownership on defined projects and developments working with cross-functional teams to deliver on seller / vendor performance improvement.

Key job responsibilities
Work backwards of seller inputs to solve complex problems with thorough process and inventory management understanding
Influence sellers and internal stakeholders to ensure delivery inline with the targets
Identify and articulate strategic importance of metrics as a basis for managing tradeoffs, improving the customer experience and making decisions with internal and external stakeholders
Work closely with Amazon internal teams on strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and waste across the end-to-end supply chain
Define, prioritize, and monitor the programs/projects to achieve targets be delivered on time
Create, write and review business cases, perform supporting research and analysis, write specifications, and drive the product development schedule from strategy to execution.
Retrieve and analyze data using Excel, Access, SQL or other data management systems
Monitor project execution and ensure that the project delivery is to the appropriate levels of quality and in line with its target date, ensuring the overall integrity within the program
Work with Cross-functional teams to deliver operational performance / projects
Successful candidates will be high analytical and having strong deep dive bias, excellent communicators, strong influencers, curious, highly motivated and effective within distributed teams.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of sales experience
- 4+ years of B2B sales experience
- Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
- Experience closing sales and generating revenue

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
- Experience influencing C-level executives

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Experience Level

Mid Level