Category Leader Softlines and Consumables

Company Name: Amazon
Location: Turkey

Description

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Amazon is looking for an experienced professional to support Amazon's fast growing Turkey business. We are looking for an exceptionally motivated and talented Category Leader with a strong customer focus. This leader will have responsibility for leading the Softlines and Consumables Product Families in Turkey. This leader will create and manage a high performing team whose primary goal is to promote category awareness, helping to create the earth's greatest shopping experience – a store featuring more products, brands, better & more compelling content than any store, online or off!

Your Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the category team and across the company to ensure that the various functions supporting the business have accountability for all important metrics such as increased selection, unit growth, inventory turns, and in-stock rates.
• Develop a customer centric strategic vision for the businesses, and define, gain alignment and lead the new business and technology initiatives deliver against that vision.
• Drive periodic innovation aimed at improving customer experience and strengthening vendor relationships.
• Provide local input to defining the customer experience and represent that to senior executives, vendors and third party merchants, as well as the category team.
• Work cross functionally with central company-wide teams in Technology, Operations and Merchant Services to establish the right processes and optimize them to utilize resources most efficiently.
• Translate category metrics into actionable plans as determined by different inputs which drive category performance.
• Create sustainable process improvements which drive year-over-year progress in the category.
• Identify new approaches for improving selection and category awareness to better manage the performance of the category over the long run.
• Focus on talent management, which includes effectively recruiting and developing the best, and creating an environment which motivates people to thrive in their expertise and deliver results.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Extensive ecommerce or retail experience including experience analyzing and improving the performance of a business
• Experience hiring and developing high performance teams including diverse teams of both direct and indirect reports
• People skills – maximizing trusting effective relationships
• Advanced Excel skills; Experience working with large complex datasets paired with problem solving skills and business acumen
• Bachelor's degree
• Language requirement: Advanced English language skills – both verbal and written
  

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA
• Consulting experience
• FMCG / Retail background
• Ability to influence people both internally and externally both verbally and in writing
• Innovative, flexible and self-directed
• Decisive and able to move with speed to implement ideas
• A passionate, self-starter, ready to take Amazon’s customer experience to the next level.
• Broad commercial awareness developed in a fast-moving environment
  

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.

We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.


Company - Amazon Turkey Perakende Hizmet
Job ID: A887941

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  PurchasingSupply ChainInformation Technology

• Industries

  Computer SoftwareInformation Technology and ServicesInternet