Interim Senior Product Manager
Job Description
Role
Who you are
- The EU Everyday Essentials (EE) team is looking for a passionate, customer-obsessed individual to help us build tomorrow's Store business
- Given the fast-paced context, flexibility and a strong work ethic are a must
- The successful candidate has a proven track record of delivering EU projects in complex and ambiguous environments, and is comfortable interacting with senior leadership in both written and oral form
- You are analytical in nature and comfortable dealing with numbers, and you can build a business case to prioritize your projects
- You also have past experience working with tech teams on product roadmaps, have strong program management skills, and can successfully leverage internal stakeholders to deliver through others
- As the Product Manager you should have a background in navigating ambiguity and driving projects with large scale impact, including strong program management skills
- You must be able to work cross functionally across internal and external teams
- Be methodical, analytical, objective, and goal-focused with a driving need for accuracy in attacking difficult problems
- Enjoy solving problems and be an expert at crafting solutions, both strategically and tactically
- Be comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, with the ability to think big while paying careful attention to detail
- Be effective in communicating with executives
- Several years managing complex, cross-functional programs with significant business impact
- Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making
- Strong ability to communicate with stakeholders
- Excellence collaborating with technical and non-technical partners
- Ability to influence without authority to drive consensus
Desirable
- Experience in e-commerce, retail
- SQL knowledge
What the job involves
- Fixed-term Contract - 12-month contract (Maternity Cover)
- As Product Manager, you will drive EU-wide projects with multiple partner teams spanning across Retail and Marketplace organizations, Finance, Tech, Ops and/or your worldwide counterparts
- You will work closely with category teams to drive growth in the EE business such as by increasing strategic selection for customers, driving purchase consolidation, optimizing E's regional supply chain network or improving delivery speed
- You will also interact frequently with the EU senior leadership and you will directly impact how we evolve and grow in the Low Price segment
- Collaborate with various teams to design, build and develop new features to grow the business and reduce friction for our customers
- Collaborate with other Product Management teams throughout the organization to push EU initiatives driving growth, improving profitability and increase selection
- Reporting clear updates on prioritization, as well as driving closure on commitments with a concrete timeline is critical to the role
- Identify, assess, track and resolve issues and risks at multiple levels
- Create, maintain, and disseminate project information to stakeholders
- Build simplified processes to manage intake requests and drive effective decision making
- Be able to work cross-functionally with the EU business teams, executives and software development teams
About the Company
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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