Senior Product Manager, Buyability & Selection — Retail Ops

Amazon Commercial Services (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Commercial Services (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town is seeking a product leader to own the end-to-end selection funnel from listing to buyable. You will define governance, drive automation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure customers can buy what vendors make available.

You will translate demand signals into prioritized actions, work with data engineering to make the funnel visible, and present performance to store leadership, embedding AI to scale without increasing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience.
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition.
• Experience working with Excel, reporting tools, and large-scale data mining tools, such as Power BI, Python, SQL, or Tableau, or experience using financial models, KPIs, and data analysis to inform business decisions with proven business impact.
• Experience in e-commerce, retail or advertising, or experience in logistics.
• Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end selection funnel and the weekly diagnostic that identifies where it leaks.
• Build the buyability defect taxonomy, the intake mechanism, and the triage SLAs from zero
• Design and implement governance mechanisms for demand promise accuracy; migrate manual processes to automated, rules-based systems
• Translate demand signals, competitive gaps, and funnel data into prioritised actions for Vendor Managers and In-Stock Managers
• Partner with data engineering to build the intelligence layer that makes the funnel visible and actionable
• Present funnel performance to store leadership; escalated blockers with clear business impact
• Embed AI and automation into detection and governance workflows to scale without scaling headcount

Skills

Product management

Roadmap strategy

Data analysis

Stakeholder influence

E-commerce

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Python

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Amazon Commercial Services (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd in Cape Town is seeking a product leader to own the end-to-end selection funnel from listing to buyable. You will define governance, drive automation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure customers can buy what vendors make available.

You will translate demand signals into prioritized actions, work with data engineering to make the funnel visible, and present performance to store leadership, embedding AI to scale without increasing