KSA Commercial Leader - Saudi national, Amazon Stores📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Amazon is seeking a Saudi National Commercial Leader to join its team in Riyadh. This role is responsible for leading one of the KSA store businesses with full Profit & Loss (P&L) accountability. The objective is to grow an Amazon business by improving fundamental operations, launching new initiatives, and enhancing the customer shopping experience in Saudi Arabia, offering a wide selection of products and brands with compelling content.

The Commercial Leader will manage a high-performing team and requires a strategic approach, a strong understanding of the retail sector, and the ability to achieve results in a dynamic, data-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the business team and across the company, ensuring accountability for key metrics including selection growth, unit growth, inventory turns, and in-stock rates.
• Drive innovation initiatives to improve customer experience and vendor relationships.
• Contribute local market insights to define the customer experience and communicate these insights to senior executives, vendor teams, third-party merchant teams, and central category teams.
• Collaborate with central company-wide teams in Technology, Operations, and Merchant Services to establish and optimize processes for efficiency.
• Translate key business metrics into actionable plans to drive category performance.
• Develop and implement sustainable process improvements for year-over-year progress within the category.
• Identify strategies to improve product selection and category awareness for long-term performance management.
• Focus on talent management within the team, including recruitment, development, and fostering an environment for high performance.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical or analytical discipline.
• Proven experience leading multi-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience developing people managers in a data-driven environment.

Required Skills

• Leadership and Talent Management
• Vendor Management and Merchant Management
• In-stock Management and Product Management
• Recruiting and Developing People
• Process Improvement and Cross-functional Collaboration
• Business Development and P&L Management

Additional Information

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Experience in retail or digital content, including vendor management, product management, or operations management is preferred. Experience in consulting, business development, as a business leader with P&L responsibilities, or in product management in an international environment is also preferred. The required experience level is 5-10 years.