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Job summary
Do you want to be part of the revolution in grocery store shopping? Curious to be at the heart of where innovation meets customer obsession?

Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our Leadership Principles, which encourage colleagues to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn the trust of their co-workers. We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work and is essential to what we can achieve as a company.
We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace. We take steps to ensure our colleagues have a sense of belonging, value, and opportunity. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits to all employees and we will support flexible work and part-time options wherever we can to suit your lifestyle. You can read more about Diversity and inclusion and the benefits we offer at aboutamazon.com

Who are we?
Recently launched, Amazon Fresh Stores is the first convenience grocery store to offer Just Walk Out (JWO) Technology in the UK. Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by this technology, which automatically detects when products are taken from, or returned to the shelves, and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. We are looking for people who want to join an ambitious, innovative and customer obsessed program.

Amazon is looking for an exceptionally motivated and talented Senior Merchandising Manager (visual merchandising and planogram) with a strong customer focus, strategic, and analytical skills.
With an entrepreneurial spirit, you will build and execute the merchandising roadmap; delivering on detailed plans, timelines and communicate to the team and leadership on status, risks, and process changes. You will need to thrive and deliver results in an ambiguous, and fast-paced environment, operating across multiple national & international teams.

Key job responsibilities
· Develop, implement, and maintain the three year merchandising strategy
· Identify and implement process improvements and opportunities for innovation and simplification to enable scale.
· Develop a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact your business area.
· Identify, measure, and deliver against opportunities to improve the customer experience
· Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed goals.
· Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and be excited to join an ambitious team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Multiple years of driving change programs with wide stakeholder groups, and requiring data analysis, process improvements, creative problem solving, and cross-functional collaboration
· Merchandising and, or Space Planning experience at a leadership level
· High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
· Excellent communication (verbal and written), strong doc writing skills, with experience of leading complex doc completion involving multiple stakeholders and SMEs; able to communicate at all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive).
· Proficiency in Excel and an ability to learn new tools and skills quickly
· Passionate and knowledgeable about customer behaviour and utilising data & insight to deliver on behalf of customers
· Experience creating and/or improving operational processes across teams/stakeholders
· Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Batchelors Bachelor’s degree in business related or 5+ years of professional or military experience
· Familiarity with databases and SQL.
· Ability to analyse data quantitatively and use customer research, data and metrics to back up assumptions, identify opportunities, and assess the efficacy of programs.
· Comfortable with a varied set of software and editing tools.




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