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Head of Business Growth & Strategic Initiatives, Amazon Now, MENA

Head of Business Growth & Strategic Initiatives, Amazon Now, MENA at Amazon scores 45 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it a Level 2 role on this board.

EG, Cairoleadfull-time

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Lead category growth, pricing frameworks, and automation initiatives for Amazon Now using AI tools to drive profitability and operational scale.

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Amazon Now is reinventing how Egypt shops for everyday essentials, delivered in minutes. As we scale, we are launching and scaling new businesses and building the engine underneath them; the programs, tools, vendor partnerships, and disciplines that let every category grow faster, price smarter, and run cleaner.

As Head of Category Growth & Strategic Initiatives, you launch and scale new businesses that open fresh sources of growth, and you own the cross-category programs, automation, and strategic initiatives that power the entire retail business. You drive Amazon Now's path to profitability through cross-functional excellence; connecting selection, pricing, vendor management, and operations into one accountable growth engine. You are not running one category; you are building the systems every category runs on: the selection and pricing frameworks, the vendor programs that improve terms and fill, the growth initiatives, the automation that removes manual work, and the metrics and cadences that keep the business rigorous. You will own shaping this new capability yourself, from the strategy down to the detail, and get things done directly rather than from a distance.

You will love this role if you want to:
- Launch and scale new businesses from the ground up that open new sources of growth
- Build the growth engine for a whole business the programs and initiatives that lift every category, not just one using AI.
- Drive a business to profitability through cross-functional excellence — connecting selection, pricing, vendor management, and operations into one growth engine
- Own vendor partnerships that improve terms, funding, fill rate, and selection at scale.
- Own selection and pricing strategy at the system level the rules, tools, and playbooks categories operate by
- Design and ship automation that replaces manual, repetitive work with repeatable, measurable process

We are looking for a Business builder who thinks in systems and unit economics, is energized by ambiguity, stays hands-on, and wants to leave a mark on how an entire business operates.

Key job responsibilities
- Launch, and scale new businesses and growth opportunities beyond the current model, from strategy and business case
- Own these bets end to end and drive them to measurable growth and margin outcomes
- Own the cross-category programs, frameworks, and initiatives that drive growth and profitability across the whole retail business
- Set the roadmap for how categories select, price, and operate, and be accountable for adoption and impact against the plan
- Drive path to profitability through cross-functional excellence
- Report progress weekly against the plan, surface risks early, and drive the actions that close variance to target
- Build the vendor programs that improve terms, funding, fill rate, and selection at scale
- Negotiate and structure strategic vendor deals and joint business plans that unlock growth
- Own the selection strategy at the system level the rules and tooling for what gets listed, expanded, and retired based on customer needs
- Own the pricing and promotion frameworks that balance customer value with healthy unit economics across categories
- Replace manual, repetitive category work with automation and repeatable process you design and ship

Basic qualifications

- Experience building scalable programs and repeatable scalable processes, levering various tools and methods to create scale and efficiency
- 5+ years of contributing to cross-functional initiatives that drive financial performance and strategy experience
- Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development
- Experience in business analysis and functional roles requiring quantitative, analytical and organizational skills
- Experience Experienced with end-to-end ownership of major project deliverables
- Experience working with Excel and large-scale data mining and reporting tools such as Python, SQL, or Tableau, or experience performing ad hoc analysis using advanced Excel
- 7+ of experience in category management, commercial, strategy, program management, or business excellence in retail, e-commerce, FMCG, or quick-commerce

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, data science, engineering, or other related field

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