Sr. Ops Associate , Business & Operations Excellence

We are looking for a bright, enthusiastic, and analytical candidate with a strong ability to solve problems and simplify processes and execute in the space of inventory management for large appliances category.
The Sr. Ops Associate supports the team that works with sellers to help improve their success at Amazon by building and nurturing an operational partnership. The associate will help to create an engaging experience for our seller partners by driving issue resolution in a timely manner. He/She will have the opportunity to identify improvement opportunities in supply chains, create solutions for it and pro-actively identify potential issues before they surface.
This position requires strong self-motivation, self-starting and multi-tasking skills. The candidate will be responsible for driving improvement in operational performance metrics, inventory availability and vendor experience by working closely with selling partners and internal stakeholders (planning managers, category managers, program managers) and fulfillment partner teams (Fulfillment Center, S&OP, Supply Chain etc.)
Key job responsibilities
• Ensure seller / vendor operational performance delivery in-line with targets
• Identify and articulate strategic importance of metrics as a basis for managing tradeoffs, improving the customer experience and making decisions with internal and external stakeholders
• Work closely with vendor operations teams on strategies to reduce cost, lead time, and waste across the end-to-end supply chain
• Define, prioritize, and monitor execution of programs/projects to achieve targets be delivered on time
• Create, write and review business cases, perform supporting research and analysis, write specifications, and drive the product development schedule from strategy to execution.
• Retrieve and analyze data using Excel, Access, SQL or other data management systems
• Monitor project execution and ensure that the project delivery is to the appropriate levels of quality and in line with its target date, ensuring the overall integrity within the program
About the team
Operations Excellence Team is designed to guide and assist sellers to ensure seamless experience while working with Amazon systems. As a part of the team, the primary role will be providing all reasonable support to sellers in improving their capabilities to ensure that they are able execute their business in the most optimum way. The role will comprise of assisting the seller to get well versed with various Amazon tools and provide on ground support to assess inputs like Vendor Returns, Returns Disputes etc. The team will be responsible for helping in undertaking on ground training of new sellers. These tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting in Returns Order Creation and Planning management process, interacting/coordinating with the sellers, identifying and correcting errors, maintaining records of work received and work performed etc. In addition to being a support associate grooming seller’s to become self-sufficient on the platform, the individual is expected to take on larger responsibilities such as initiating and owning process improvement projects, participating actively in stakeholder calls/meetings etc.
- Bachelor's degree
- Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
- 2+ years of sales experience
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