Category Manager, Amazon

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Amazon is seeking a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working, and creative candidate to join as a Category Manager for the Pets Category.

Key job responsibilities

The Pets Category team in India is looking for a Category Manager to own and drive the scale-up of categories and critical customer-focused initiatives. The candidate must share our passion for serving customers and making Amazon a preferred destination for pet products. The role requires balancing big-picture thinking, working with ambiguity, and driving rapid experimentation. We seek self-starters with strong analytical skills and results orientation who can make and execute independent, data-driven decisions while collaborating with senior stakeholders internally and externally.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, effective communication and writing abilities, ownership, persistence, leadership in project management, and adaptability to evolving structures in a new space.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience with Excel
• 5+ years of experience in retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting, with negotiation and results delivery
• Bachelor's degree or 3+ years of professional/military experience
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience managing large data sets to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing, promotion, inventory management, and product development

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