Senior Category Planner, Amazon Fresh

At Amazon Fresh UK, we aim to think like a grocer, act like tech, fulfilling our vision to become the #1 choice for Amazon customers to fulfill their everyday grocery needs. The Category Excellence (CatEx) team's ambition is to bring together the characteristics that have made Amazon successful, while applying best-in-class grocery thinking to our execution. This role offers an exciting opportunity to influence strategy for the Amazon Fresh UK business. As a Senior Strategic Category Planner, you will serve as a thought-leader, improving our external antennae and building a deep understanding of customer needs and category performance. You will have the opportunity to lead impactful CatEx strategy projects, across Selection, Category Strategies and Trade Planning. If you are passionate about translating data into actionable strategies, this role is a high-profile way to make a tangible impact on the business., Category Strategies:
- Coordinate and facilitate Category Strategy processes, tools, and governance
- Deliver category data playbooks to support category insight and strategy development
- Conduct vendor listening sessions and derive insights
- Organize and enable Category Strategy workshops with cross-functional teams
- Ensure high-quality strategic outputs (category vision, objectives, initiatives)
- Govern the implementation of the category strategy and monitor initiatives
- Deliver ongoing engagement with vendors on market performance and activity, identifying joint opportunities for growth

Category Insight & Thought-Leadership:
- Act as a "thought-leader" by being at the forefront of category insight
- Build a thorough understanding of customer/category needs and ensure the voice of the customer is embedded
- Stay up to date with category performance using internal and external data
- Lead the category insight relationship with vendors and agencies; regularly spend time to absorb and embed insights
- Act as the "voice of the category" in key mechanisms, alongside the Vendor Manager

Category Excellence Strategy:
- Lead on strategy projects with important business impact, such as Selection differentiation and Trade Planning
- Develop strategies incorporating customer insight, market segment insight, relevant data inputs and key jobs to be done
- Step-change the ability of the business to turn data into insight, applying this to our value creation strategy
- Own relevant mechanisms to track progress across cross-functional teams and drive performance across key metrics

Bachelor's degree, or experience in a professional field or military
- Experience with Excel
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience with business analysis and P&L management
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- Experience in account management, project/program management, or buying
- 5+ years of vendor manager or category planning experience, Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL

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