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Job type full-time
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Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, marketing, design or related field is required
Professional experience in product management, financial analysis, and/or marketing with approximately 5+ years’ experience
Proficiency with excel or access required
Job summary
Over the past 25 years, amazon has reinvented itself on behalf of customers and has become the largest internet retailer and marketplace in the worldThrough our entrepreneurial culture, amazon has developed new technologies and products (like echo) and, enterprise services (like amazon web services)Amazon is now reinventing on behalf of the business customer and focused on building the largest and most innovative business-to-business (b2b) business in the world, and we are recruiting to make this vision a reality.
B2b represents an incredible opportunity to address a vast new market segment and customer base and is an area of high interest for amazonWe are focused on building solutions that enable b2b customers to find, research, and buy products and services from a vast selection, across multiple devices, marketplaces, and regionsOur customers include individual professionals, small businesses to large institutions (and everything in between)Our b2b customers have different needs than the traditional amazon customer so we are reinventing everything from how we display our selection, price our products, and provide the right customer experience.
Today, worldwide business customers suffer from manually matching, tracking, and reconciling invoice/order line-items with product receiving and order issue status prior to payment and closing an orderThe process is manual, time-consuming and prone to mistakes, resulting in invoice late payment, dunning, and potential account suspensionsYou will own 3-way-match charter where we are building unique best-in-class b2b solution to remove friction from procurement and solve the aforementioned opportunity space.
Role:
Amazon is seeking a driven, strategic, and customer-centric product management leader to create the strategy and product solutions for our business customersYou will work closely with customers, go-to-market leaders, sales, marketing, analytics, data engineering and customer service teams, to deeply understand the needs of customers, and use that information to develop multi-year roadmaps that will lead to success for customers using our services, and growth for our businessYou will be part of a technology team with capabilities to develop specific capabilities for these market needsWhen your team cannot build these capabilities, you will advocate on behalf of our customers by partnering with other teams within amazon to create solutions.
As a senior leader on the amazon business product/tech team, you will have a high impact opportunity to serve the needs of business buyers, you will interact with the senior management team within amazon business and across amazonThis is a chance to think big!
The right product manager will be a proven team leader and builder with energy and deep competencies to envision the right experience for customers, drive execution, and scale the solution to match the business growth opportunityYou will lead by example, being just as passionate about operational performance, security, and predictability as you are about innovation and a delightful customer experienceYou will not have the luxury of having tunnel vision for any one area; rather, you will need to exhibit excellent judgment on how to prioritize and strike the right balance for driving adoption among existing customers and acquiring new customers fastEqually, you will achieve the right balance among competing priorities for new features, architectural improvements, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities:
Own the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for your solution portfolio (initially: three-way matching, related offers report, and debarred sellers features) based on data and metrics from product utilization, customer research, and competitive analysis.
Develop business requirements, review ux and tech designs, and participate in the day-to-day decision-making activities of your product team.
Partner with the gtm business teams to identify new product requirements.
Author prfaq(s)/ brds for new product features, and contribute to prfaq(s)/ brds for new sub-vertical programs.
Partner with product owners throughout amazon business and amazon overall to drive vertical-specific requirements into their products.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects and competing priorities in an ever changing environment
Proven track record of delivering results in large, cross-functional initiatives
Superior analytical and quantitative skills; experience using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success
Proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve ambiguous problems independently with an extreme attention to detail
Strong strategic aptitude; proven ability to define a winning business strategy and product roadmap and gain buy-in from stakeholders at all levels
Demonstrated ability to successfully influence stakeholders without formal authority, leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
Excellent customer experience intuition; demonstrated success in creating innovative and user-friendly products and customer-facing features
Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing technology concepts, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members
Strong bias for action; ability to create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Experience operating in a global environment
Mba preferred
Experience in b2b sales, especially in the development of solutions in the procurement industry (source to settle)
Experience operating in the procurement ecosystem serving education, government or other highly regulated industries.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplaceAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected statusFor individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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