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Sr. Category Mgr, Store Strategy, Amazon Worldwide Grocery Stores

Amazon
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 5/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/26/2026
Description

Join us as we grow Amazon's Grocery and Retail businesses! We are passionate about creating a shopping experience that customers will love. If you’re interested in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly-collaborative environment that’s more start-up than big company, we want to talk to you.

The Sr. Category Manager will provide support for Amazon’s physical retail locations and initiatives through strategic planning, cross-functional project management, and marketing execution. They will work with business leaders to develop and execute on short- and long-term strategies and collaborate with internal stakeholders to build processes allowing us to scale.

The ideal candidate possesses experience in buying, marketing, and/or finance, with a track record of successful relationship management, strong analytical acumen, and experience generating and managing reporting and analysis. Additionally, the candidate with have experience managing the strategic aspects of physical retail stores. Great communication skills and data-driven analysis will be essential to your success. We’re looking for a self-starter who will take ownership of business problems to a successful result.

Key job responsibilities

Our Environment Is Fast-paced, And Requires Someone Who Is Flexible, Detail-oriented, Analytical, And Comfortable Working With Multiple Teams, Vendors, Partners, And Management. On a Day To Day Basis, You Will

  • Work with cross-functional partners across marketing, supply chain, merchandising, category and vendor management to establish best practices and procedures; proactively identify blockers to remove.
  • Partner with Marketing to create opportunities for growth, customer acquisition, and brand-building for multiple sub-categories
  • Identify areas of risk to project timelines, and escalate to program leadership in a timely manner.
  • Drive physical store process improvements; enable streamlining to achieve operational excellence, benchmarking, and development and tracking of key performance metrics.
  • Consistently challenge practices to ensure the team is consistently raising the bar on its performance and operational excellence.
  • Audit metrics regularly, determine and prioritize business opportunities, identify risks and make recommendations to pursue
  • Identify industry trends and develop innovative marketing and merchandising initiatives to support growth
  • Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and goals for the Amazon Grocery physical stores, co-located with Whole Foods Market locations
  • Analyze weekly and monthly performance metrics and manage communication with stakeholders to hit financial targets, during weekly business reviews
  • Partner with category managers and trade planning to coordinate promotional activity, space allocation, pricing, productivity analysis, and forecasting

Basic Qualifications

  • 5 years of with Excel experience
  • Bachelor's degree, or 5 years of professional or military experience
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL
  • Experience with business analysis and P&L management

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience using data to influence business decisions
  • Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
  • 2 years of account management, brand management, performance marketing, digital marketing, sales or consulting experience
  • Experience in physical retail store management

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 121,200.00 - 163,900.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 121,200.00 - 163,900.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 121,200.00 - 163,900.00 USD annually


Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10404470

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