Category Manager, IN Luggage

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Bengaluru is seeking a Category Manager to own and drive scale-up of categories and key customer-focused initiatives. The role requires analytical thinking, data-driven decision making, and strong stakeholder management across borders to accelerate growth and improve customer experience.

You will collaborate with global teams, manage cross-functional projects, and demonstrate leadership in evolving structures within a new space while delivering measurable results in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 5+ years of category/business development, retail or buying experience.
• Master's degree.
• Experience using data to influence business decisions.
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration.
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management.
• Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements.
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive scale-up of categories and customer-focused initiatives.
• Balance big thinking with operating speed and experimentation.
• Engage senior stakeholders across borders to execute data-driven decisions.
• Lead projects with ownership, persistence, and clear writing.

Skills

Analytical skills

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Luggage Category team in India is looking for a Category Manager to own and drive scale-up of categories and critical customer-focused initiatives. The person who joins this team must share our passion and commitment for serving customers while also making Amazon a preferred partner. S/he must be able to balance thinking big, working with ambiguity while driving speed of experimentation. We are looking for self-starters with strong analytical skills and result-orientation who can make and execute independent, data-driven decisions and work with senior stakeholders across borders, both internally and externally.

Key job responsibilities

The successful candidate for this critical role will have strengths in independent problem-solving and working around constraints, demonstrate great “voice” and strong writing skills, show strong ownership and persistence, have proven leadership experience in managing projects, and be comfortable with evolving structure in a new space.

Basic qualifications

• - 5+ years of category/business development, retail or buying experience
• - Master's degree
• - Experience using data to influence business decisions
• - Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
• - Experience with business analysis and P&L management

Preferred qualifications

• - Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

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