Amazon is looking for a smart, motivated, and self-driven Instock Manager to join our Global Purchasing Program (GPE) - Amazon's first centralized procurement function that is revolutionizing how we do direct imports for emerging countries. This role offers end-to-end business ownership of a import supply chain: from consolidating global demand across multiple retail stores into a single purchase order, receiving products at origin in China, and distributing inventory across 12+ destination countries spanning North America, Europe, MENA, and APAC. You will develop and implement inventory management strategies that directly unlock selection for hundreds of millions of customers who otherwise couldn't access top products at competitive prices.
The Program
GPE is not your traditional Direct Import channel - it's a strategic, high-growth initiative with triple-digit YoY growth that solves one of Amazon's biggest global challenges: enabling emerging markets to reach vendor MOQs (Minimum Order Quantities) by consolidating demand across the globe. With multiple vendors onboarded, GXD nodes across China and expanding into new origin locations, GPE allows vendors to onboard once and offer to all countries through a single PO - eliminating the need for multiple Vendor Central accounts, catalogues, and redundant processes. Amazon absorbs risk at origin, ensures full on-time payments, and delivers improved production planning for global demand. This is supply chain innovation at its most impactful.
The Role
This individual will partner with various teams across Amazon (Operations, Global Logistics, Supply Chain Technology, SCOT, Retail, and Finance teams) as well as external vendor partners to support critical new business initiatives and drive continuous improvement across our global procurement operations. The scope includes Hardlines and/or Consumables categories, managing inventory health at both GXD (Global Cross Dock) facilities and destination Fulfillment Centers across multiple countries.
Who You Are
The successful candidate is an innovator, communicator, influencer, and problem solver who takes a data-driven approach to solve complex problems across our global imports supply chain. You possess superb business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery and relationship management, deep analytical acumen, and experience generating and managing forecasts, reports, and analyses.
You thrive in ambiguity and move fast. You are highly analytical, flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting, and comfortable with databases and analytical tools. You can work autonomously in a fast-paced, highly demanding environment where you'll be building the playbook as you go.
Since this position involves working with multiple stakeholders across countries and time zones in one of Amazon's fastest-growing global opportunities, we need someone with strong stakeholder management capabilities, great bias for action, excellent written and oral communication skills, and the ability to meet tight deadlines while managing several projects simultaneously. This position provides opportunities to influence high-visibility, high-impact areas throughout the organization - from how we forecast global demand to how we build containers and deliver to each country.
Location
The position is based in Seattle office.
Key job responsibilities
1) Oversee the instock function including forecasting, ordering, capacity management, instock rates and unhealthy inventory management
2) Develop and improve import ordering strategies for his/her categories to ensure Amazon meets the optimal mix of domestic and import sourcing.
3) Activities towards buying automation and system auditing in partnership with technical and product teams
4) Activities on supply chain optimization and defects reduction working with operations teams
5) Report, monitor, analyze and own key performance indicators such as vendor import share, out of stock percentages, vendor lead time, fill rate, unhealthy inventory and forecast accuracy for import selection.
About the team
About the Hiring Group
The International Expansions team is responsible for helping launch new Amazon marketplaces around the world. Our Global Retail Imports program (GPE) is focused on working with top global vendors through direct imports for emerging countries - consolidating demand, simplifying vendor relationships, and unlocking selection at scale.
Our team is based in Mexico, San Jose, Seattle, Sydney, Dubai, and London. We work closely with stakeholder teams in Australia, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, the US, and across Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain). We are a truly global team solving one of the most complex and rewarding supply chain challenges at Amazon
Inclusive team culture
At Amazon we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Work Life Balance
We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of with Excel experience
- 4+ years of supply chain, inventory management or project management experience
- Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of the principles of statistical inventory control
- Experience with process improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 128,300.00 USD annually
