Product Strategy Director

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They think long term for our customers and dont sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. Amazon Freight Europe is looking for just such an owner to lead the inbound product strategy for our externalized freight business to design and deliver a world class freight experience for our business customers.
The Head of Inbound Product Strategy will report directly into the leader of the Amazon Freight Europe business to revolutionize the inbound product that we offer to customers across Europe (including UK). They will partner closely with Product, Program, Operations and Commercial leaders to identify the challenges and opportunities in our organization, and come up with creative, customer-driven solutions to solve them. The Head of Inbound Product will work closely with the Product team to influence our product buildout while supporting our Commercial team in customer pitches and internal influence, diving deep with leaders across multiple areas to define customer problems and deliver the solutions.
You have a relentless focus on creating and improving customer value with a track record of doing so by close business partnering and influencing other teams. Youre a hands-on multitasker who can quickly change focus and balance the needs of the moment with longer-term goals. You have excellent problem solving, communication and organizational skills and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority, along with a good understanding of product development/management and digital media.
Youre a leader with a blend of strategy, product management and/or commercial experience and have the business acumen to understand and shape Amazon Freights business-wide roadmap. You achieve your results through other people, often without authority, making complex decisions simple through data and inspire people at all levels in the organization. You proactively identify gaps and risks, and partner with senior leaders in and out of the organization to define creative solutions to solve them. Build long term product plans, working alongside our product team, who specifies new products and features, our tech team that builds them, our operations that deliver them, our commercial team that sells them as well as the Amazon Freight teams outside EU.
Stay close to the operational realities of our business, recognizing that what we will build has its foundation in the work of our Associates and partners on sites and in vehicles.
Develop and build relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and responsiveness of existing operations, and help define new operational strategies by working with EU AF Director and other executives on special projects.
Coach and mentor business developers within the team.
Define business development KPIs targets and manage performance against these KPIs.
Partner with Product, Program, Operations and Commercial teams to oversee strategic business initiatives from development through to successful execution, ensuring that individual function targets are in harmony and resolving those that arent.
-Support colleagues in their decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation, calling out opportunities to double-down and the unseen risks.
-At Amazon Freight, we blend advanced technology with Amazon's network of 6,500+ owned trailers and 13,000+ trusted carrier partners across UK & EU to move freight-simply and reliably. We apply the same customer obsession that we are known for in the consumer business to the Business to Business segment, aiming to partner with our customers to meet the demands of today while helping to navigate the road ahead. Across Amazon, we have committed to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement and we take this commitment seriously in Amazon Freight too. Were not there yet but if this sounds interesting, maybe you can help us get there.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience building and leading large teams and have worked in matrixed operating structures
- Experience in strategic thinking about business, enterprise software products, and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent
Experience managing and developing high performance teams
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Job Type:
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