Head of Baby Category Baby

Key job responsibilities

• Managing a full P&L, including planning, forecasting and driving growth for the category, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business.
• Execute a strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g., operations, marketing legal, tech).
• Develop and lead a multi-functional team of Vendor Managers and Program Managers with ownership covering the B2C store, as well as the B2B store (Amazon Business)
• Lead day-to-day operational aspects of the business, including gathering and addressing customer and vendor feedback, price management, and business improvement initiatives.
• Setting goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision.
• Representing Amazon when meeting with senior executive teams from top vendors and building long term strategic relationships.
• Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvements, innovation, and scale within the category and across the Retail business.
• Leading cross functional collaboration on necessary systems and processes to support business needs, including retail systems, site merchandising and in-stock.
• Innovating and implementing new customer and vendor programs.
• Collaborating on Marketing and Merchandising initiatives.
  

About The Team

Amazon Beauty & Baby is an exciting place to work where investing in cutting edge technology is at the core of growth vision. We are focused on reinventing the shopping experience for all Baby customers across the largest selection of brands to become the most trusted Baby destination. We are a team of industry and Amazon experts whose sole priority is to deliver best in class experiences for our customers and selling partners while nurturing a welcoming and trusting environment for one another.

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

New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in retail, operations and/or business management
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion or inventory management
• Experience communicating complex business concepts in verbal and written form
• Experience delivering results, setting strategy, and running a large volume and high profile business
• Experience recruiting, hiring and developing talent
• Experience managing teams
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with P&L responsibility and delivering strong financial results
• Experience leading and transforming highly effective organizations
  

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.