About this role
About the Role Amazon's Retail Business Services (RBS) organization is seeking a results-driven Sr. Program Manager to lead Stranded Inventory Optimization across Emerging/Strategic markets. The role focuses on identifying, resolving, and aligning upstream fixes for stranded inventory to reduce unproductive inventory and unlock working capital in Emerging markets, partnering with country teams, FC operations, and RBS technology to adapt proven playbooks for regional nuances. What You'll Do
- Emerging countries Defect Identification: Identify, categorize, and size stranded inventory defects specific to IES marketplaces — including Retail Bossed, Hazmat suppression, image non-compliance, expiry, and overstock/deadwood.
- Country Partnership: Serve as the RBS SIRP point of contact for Emerging country teams, establishing joint goals, shared accountability, and regular review cadences with country leaders.
- Program Execution: Own end-to-end goal delivery for Emerging country stranded inventory reduction, including opportunity sizing, solution implementation, adoption tracking, and COI impact reporting.
- Data Foundation: Work with Data Engineering to identify alternate data sources for Emerging markets (where Hydra/CtSAI datasets are unavailable), validate mappings, and build baseline metrics to enable defect identification at scale.
- Upstream Fix Alignment: Partner with internal teams (RISC, Janus, Category, FC Operations) to drive upstream fixes and close-loop mechanisms that prevent recurrence of stranded inventory defects.
- Tool Adoption: Drive adoption of RBS automation tools (Sapien, Sherlock) in Emerging markets by working with country teams to ensure structured onboarding, training, and review mechanisms.
- Scalable Playbooks: Adapt WW SIRP playbooks for Emerging country regional nuances (language, data availability, vendor workflows) while maintaining consistency with global standards.
- Stakeholder Communication: Deliver monthly progress updates to Emerging Marketplace country leaders and RBS leadership with clear visibility into goal progress, blockers, and escalation needs. What We're Looking For
- 7+ 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.
- Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.). Nice to Have
- 6+ years of driving process improvements experience.
- Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field. Compensation & Benefits Not specified in the posting.