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Job description / Role
The Instock Manager plays a critical role in delivering the ideal customer experience, ensuring we have the right product quantities, at the right time. The Instock Manager will oversee planning and inventory management of the category, as well as driving analysis and optimization of inventory management to ensure optimum availability and health. An Instock Manager works to continuously optimize end-to-end supply chain, engage with vendors to improve operational performance, and drive system and process enhancements with internal stakeholder.
Responsibilities;
- Responsible for the weekly forecasting and planning activities for the Retail inventory buying
- Create and assess business cases for inventory deal buying and selection expansion plans
- Ensure weekly buying plans are fulfilled, reducing out of stock rates, and increase overall product selection
- Drive and report on complex business analysis to identify business opportunities to improve cost structure and profitability
- Manage inventory availability and health including; improved Instock rates, inventory planning, vendor operational improvement, and systematic forecasting.
- Partner with Retail business team and Marketing in driving sales and profitability growth.
- Work with internal teams to help drive tools and process improvements that affect purchasing and vendor management workflows.
- Drive cross-functional system and process improvement projects
Requirements
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or a Supply Chain/Procurement/Operations discipline
- 4/5+ years of experience in retail, operations, Supply Chain consulting and/or finance
- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment.
- Strong numerical and analytical aptitude, with high proficiency in creating and managing advanced models
- Strong proficiency in analysis tools including Microsoft Excel, SQL, and statistics software
- Arabic and English language proficiency both written and verbal
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or a Supply Chain/Procurement/Operations discipline
- 4/5+ years of experience in retail, operations, Supply Chain consulting and/or finance
- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment.
- Strong numerical and analytical aptitude, with high proficiency in creating and managing advanced models
- Strong proficiency in analysis tools including Microsoft Excel, SQL, and statistics software
- Arabic and English language proficiency both written and verbal
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- +Experience leading process improvement, systems development, and project management (is a plus)+
About the Company
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.