Senior Subject Matter Expert, Retail Business Services

About Amazon. com
Amazon. com strives to be Earths most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon. com continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazons evolution from Web site to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the companys DNA. The worlds brightest technology minds come to Amazon. com to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.
About RBS
The Retail Business Systems (RBS) group is an integral part of Amazon online product lifecycle and buying operations. The team is designed to ensure Amazon remains competitive in the online retail space with the best catalog quality, wide selection, supply chain defects and compliance programs. The team s primary role is to create and enhance retail selection on the worldwide Amazon online catalog. The tasks handled have a direct impact on customer buying decisions and online user experience.

About the Role
As a Subject Matter Expert, you will be responsible for owning the key metrics focused towards defect elimination and deliver business value. The role requires you to work closely with senior leadership and other internal/external stakeholders, helping them make data-driven decisions, size up problems through various analysis, convert problem statements into process improvement activities & achieve closure. The individual will interact with the business, automation & technology teams to help drive operation, deploy tools & technics and system improvements.
The successful candidate should have the ability to work at all levels with an eye for detail to achieve quality & process goals, actively seeks to understand Amazon s core values and translates those into everyday practices.
Key Performance Areas
- Own the defect elimination goal for the functional unit
- Dive deep and understand different upstream systems & processes that lead to product defects,
- Drive inputs to improve standard operating procedures, and eliminate defects through upstream process or automation fixes by working with external stakeholders
- Use data analysis to identify gaps, structure initiatives, recommend solutions and drive consensus on strategic inter-function business decisions
- Own the communication and progress updates on multiple projects, assess performance against goals and realign internal/external stakeholders on project deliverables
- Use SQL to create dashboards by task, analyze opportunities, identify patterns and implement proactive solutions


Key job responsibilities
About the Role
As a Subject Matter Expert, you will be responsible for owning the key metrics focused towards defect elimination and deliver business value. The role requires you to work closely with senior leadership and other internal/external stakeholders, helping them make data-driven decisions, size up problems through various analysis, convert problem statements into process improvement activities & achieve closure. The individual will interact with the business, automation & technology teams to help drive operation, deploy tools & technics and system improvements.
The successful candidate should have the ability to work at all levels with an eye for detail to achieve quality & process goals, actively seeks to understand Amazon s core values and translates those into everyday practices. - 2+ years of program or project management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications
- Experience handling projects using six sigma or Lean processes
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience in e-commerce product listing & catalog