Senior Program Manager, WW FBA Returns Team

Amazon India; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead initiatives aimed at reducing returns for their Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service. This role involves defining strategies, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and utilizing data-driven insights to enhance seller success and improve customer experiences. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in program management and a passion for driving process improvements. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact the success of sellers and the quality of service provided to customers worldwide. If you are ready to make a difference, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Equity Options

Sign-on Payments

Comprehensive Financial Benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience required.
• Experience using data to drive improvements is essential.

Responsibilities

• Define WW strategy for FBA and drive initiatives to reduce returns.
• Set up tracking mechanisms for customer returns metrics.

Skills

Program Management

Data Analysis

Cross-functional Collaboration

Process Improvement

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Senior Program Manager, WW FBA Returns Team

Job ID: 2896071 | Amazon.com Services LLC

The Selling Partner Services (SPS) team operates the business, technology and seller services that make Amazon the best place on Earth for 3rd party sellers to start and grow a global business. Today, the vast majority of those sellers choose to do so trusting Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to fully manage their selection from the factory floor to the customer door, allowing sellers to leverage the power of Amazon’s global fulfillment network. Our mission in WW FBA is to enable the long-term success of our sellers by building best-in-class processes and tools that make FBA the simplest, most reliable and profitable channel for our sellers. Our store has enabled sellers of all sizes and origins to compete in an evolving global market, and today WW sellers serve tens of millions of items to customers globally.

The success of WW FBA is synonymous with that of our sellers, and the WW FBA Returns team is on a mission to help ensure that success. The WW FBA Returns team leads WW strategies and initiatives focused on reducing FBA returns to protect the customer experience, helping sellers to reduce returns enable seller success by improving the quality of their listings and products selling globally at Amazon, and reducing our cost to serve.

The team is seeking an experienced Senior Program Management leader to define the strategy and drive the execution of a roadmap for returns reduction targeting key areas of focus for FBA's growth. The successful execution of this roadmap requires collaboration with teams across multiple organizations such as Retail Business Services (RBS), Category Teams, WW Returns and Recommerce, Customer Service, US 3P and FBA regional teams, and other business and SPS teams.

This leader will be responsible for identifying high impact opportunities, generating actionable insights from customer derived sources and seller feedback, defining clear problem statements to address egregious and repetitive defects that result in customer returns, tracking impact of initiatives in return reduction, identifying risks and defining mitigation plans. If you are passionate about improving the customer shopping experience by reducing defects that result in returns and helping sellers be successful in improving the quality of their products and listings, this may be the role for you!

Key job responsibilities

1. Define the WW strategy for FBA and drive initiatives to reduce returns focused on high impact cohorts and inform prioritization through both data and anecdotes on pain points from both customer and sellers.
2. Set up mechanisms to track performance of customer returns metrics and goals, identify trends, measure the impact of initiatives, and define path to green or mitigation plans as needed.
3. Partner with Product, Science, Economics, Category, Business and Finance teams to align on input goals and deliver scalable product solutions and policy changes to drive return reduction.
4. Quantify the impact of return reduction initiatives into key output metrics.
5. Define a WW roadmap in partnership with regions within FBA.
6. Report performance via mechanisms across orgs including WW FBA, WW Returns and Recommerce, Customer Service and US 3P provide key program updates for leadership visibility and input.
7. Own developing a pipeline of initiatives to feed into current year, next year OP plan, and 3YF.
8. Provide inputs into product/tech roadmaps in SPS, Retail, and other orgs to improve returns related functionality, insights and tools for sellers in Seller Central and CX features for customers to make better informed decisions and recommendations for policy updates.
9. Communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with audiences of all levels and geographies, including senior leaders.
10. Continuously raise the bar on the quality of written communications across Amazon business documents by communicating clear messages that foster productive discussions and facilitate alignment on key priorities and investments.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
• 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience.
• 3+ years of driving process improvements experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of Tableau or equivalent tools experience.
• Master's degree.
• Experience in SQL.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $104,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit our benefits page.