当チームは、社内の様々なチームに加え、出版社・取次会社・倉庫・物流会社といった社外のステークホルダーと協働し、紙書籍の在庫・物流に関する戦略立案と実行を担っています。そのうち、今回募集する Associate Strategic Supply Chain Manager は、出版社の在庫管理を専門に支援するチームに所属し、アサインされた出版社（1人あたり3〜4社）に寄り添いながら、在庫・物流を中心としたサプライチェーン上の課題を特定し、解決策の設計から実行までを一気通貫で担うコンサルタント職です。社内の多様なチームと協業し、お客様の購買体験と出版社のビジネスの双方を改善します。なお、本ポジションは原則として電子書籍を業務スコープに含みません。
この職種の魅力:
在庫、需要予測、物流のデータを自ら分析し、改善施策を企画から実行までオーナーシップを持って進められます
欠品の削減、発売日のお届け、配送スピードなど、お客様が実感できる成果に直結します
日本の出版流通という業界構造そのものに向き合い、出版社の意思決定層と直接議論する機会があります
前例のない課題に、自分の分析と行動で最初に取り組めます
変化を脅威ではなく機会ととらえ、自ら課題を見つけて動けるリーダーをお待ちしています。
Japan's print book supply chain meets new challenges one after another: new constraints and rising costs across the existing logistics network, broadening reader preferences, and shifts in the economy and in how people buy. Even in this fast-changing environment, the Strategic Supply Chain Management team in Amazon's Books organization works with stakeholders inside and outside Amazon, every day, to deliver on one mission: readers get the book they want, when they want it.
Our team sets and executes the strategy for print book inventory and logistics. We work across Amazon and with external stakeholders including publishers, distributors, warehouses, and transportation providers. As an Associate Strategic Supply Chain Manager, you will join a team dedicated to supporting publishers' inventory management. You will work closely with an assigned group of publishers (three to four per role), identify supply chain problems centered on inventory and logistics, and own the solution end to end, from design through execution. You will collaborate with teams across Amazon to improve both the customer buying experience and our publishers' business. As a rule, this position does not include eBooks in its scope.
Why you will love this role:
You analyze inventory, forecasting, and logistics data yourself, and own improvement initiatives from idea through execution.
Your work connects directly to outcomes customers feel: fewer out-of-stock titles, delivery on release day, and faster shipping speed.
You engage with the structure of Japan's book distribution industry, and discuss decisions directly with publisher leadership.
You are first to take on problems with no precedent, where your own analysis and action move the result.
We are looking for a customer-focused, driven, and analytical leader who sees change as an opportunity rather than a threat, and who finds and acts on problems without being asked.
Key job responsibilities
Associate Strategic Supply Chain Manager は、担当する出版社（1人あたり3〜4社）の在庫戦略にオーナーシップを持ち、商品セレクションの拡充、欠品の削減、サプライチェーンの効率化を通じて、お客様にとって最良の購買体験と事業の収益性の双方を高めます。担当出版社の在庫計画と運用管理のすべての側面を担うことが、この職種の業務の基盤です。加えて、そこで得た知見や経験をもとに、チーム全体が追う欠品率などの指標の改善、重要プロジェクト、事業部全体を横断する取り組みにも携わります。
主な職務内容:
担当出版社の需要予測、発注、在庫水準の計画を立案し、欠品の削減と在庫回転率の改善を主導します
出版社のサプライチェーン上の課題を特定し、改善施策を設計から実行まで一気通貫で担います
納品リードタイム、受注対応、在庫情報の連携など、出版社側のオペレーション改善を支援します
効率的で拡張性のあるサプライチェーンを構築し、固定費・変動費の削減に貢献します
Amazon 社内の購買・発注の仕組みとシステムを理解し、活用および改善提案を行います
データ分析、自動化、継続的な改善により、業務の精度とスピードを高めます
当チームでは、担当範囲の線引きにとらわれず、チームの成果のために必要なことへ自ら手を伸ばすことを期待しています。Amazon のリーダーは「それは私の仕事ではありません」とは決して口にしません。チームおよびプログラムの状況に応じて、担当出版社の枠を越えた指標の改善、重要プロジェクト、上記以外の業務を、一時的または継続的に担当することがあります。自ら職務範囲を広げていける方にとって、成長の機会が多い環境です。
As an Associate Strategic Supply Chain Manager, you will own the inventory strategy for an assigned group of publishers (three to four per role). You will grow selection, reduce out-of-stock titles, and drive supply chain efficiency, so that customers get a best-in-class buying experience and the business grows revenue and margin. Covering all aspects of inventory planning and operational management for your publishers is the foundation of this job. Building on what you learn there, you will also help improve the metrics the whole team owns, such as out-of-stock rate, and take part in key projects and in initiatives that run across the Books organization.
Key job responsibilities:
Build demand forecasting, ordering, and inventory level plans for your publishers, and drive improvement in out-of-stock rate and inventory turns.
Identify supply chain problems at your publishers, and own improvement initiatives from design through execution.
Support your publishers in improving their operations, including delivery lead time, order confirmation, and inventory data exchange.
Build efficient and scalable supply chain operations that reduce fixed and variable costs.
Understand and apply Amazon's internal buying and ordering systems and processes, and propose improvements to them.
Raise the accuracy and speed of your work through data analysis, automation, and Kaizen.
On this team, we expect you to look past the boundaries of your assigned scope and reach for whatever the team's results require. Leaders at Amazon never say "that's not my job." Depending on team and program circumstances, you may take on metric improvements beyond your assigned publishers, key projects, or work outside the scope described above, either temporarily or on an ongoing basis. For someone who wants to widen their own remit, this is an environment with a lot of room to grow.
At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.
A day in the life
日々の業務は担当出版社との対話と、その背後にあるデータの分析を往復しながら進みます。直接のクライアントは担当出版社ですが、最終的なお客様は本を待っている読者です。業務の中心は担当出版社ですが、週の一部は、チーム全体が追う指標の改善や、事業部を横断する取り組みに充てることもあります。
出版社側のカウンターパートは、在庫・物流・営業の担当部門です。Amazon 社内では、同じく出版社を担当するチームメンバーや、Strategic Supply Chain Management チームの各メンバーと最も密に協働します。書籍事業部内では、アカウントマネージャー、売上向上コンサルタント、商品企画担当、マーケティング部門などの各チームと連携します。さらに、フルフィルメントセンター、輸送、需要予測やシステムの関連チーム、ファイナンス、および他国の同職種のチームとも日常的に関わります。
解決する課題は、欠品の発生原因の特定と解消、新刊の発売日に向けた在庫確保、需要予測の精度改善、納品プロセスに潜む非効率の解消などです。
一日・一週間の業務の例:
担当出版社の指標（欠品率、在庫水準、納品実績）を確認し、異常値の原因を特定します
データを抽出して深く掘り下げ、課題を定量化した上で仮説を立てます
仮説に基づきアクションプランとスケジュールを設計し、出版社や社内ステークホルダー向けの資料を作成してレビューを受けます
担当出版社からの問い合わせに対応し、在庫や納品に関する判断を日次で行います
Amazon 社内システム上で、需要予測や発注、在庫に関する設定と実行を行います
出版社との定例ミーティングで改善の進捗を共有し、次に取り組むことを合意します
担当出版社の枠を越え、チーム全体が追う指標の改善に向けた分析や施策の検討に取り組みます
事業部を横断するプロジェクトや、チーム内の業務プロセスの改善・自動化に参加します
Your days move back and forth between conversations with your publishers and analysis of the data behind them. Your direct clients are the publishers you are assigned to, and your ultimate customers are the readers waiting for their books. Your publishers are the center of the work, though part of your week may also go to improving the metrics the whole team owns and to initiatives that run across the Books organization.
At your publishers, your counterparts are the teams responsible for inventory, logistics, and sales. Inside Amazon, you work most closely with the other members who cover publishers and with the members of the Strategic Supply Chain Management team. Within the Books organization, you work with account managers, sales growth consultants, merchandising and product planning, and Marketing. You also engage day to day with our fulfillment centers, Transportation, forecasting and technology teams, Finance, and your counterparts in other countries.
The problems you solve include finding and removing the causes of out-of-stock titles, securing inventory ahead of new release dates, improving forecast accuracy, and taking inefficiency out of the delivery process.
A typical day or week:
Review metrics for your publishers, including out-of-stock rate, inventory levels, and delivery performance, and identify the cause of anything that looks off.
Extract data and run a deep dive analysis to quantify the problem and form a hypothesis.
Design an action plan and schedule from that hypothesis, draft the materials for your publishers and internal stakeholders, and take them through review.
Respond to inquiries from your publishers, and make day-to-day decisions on inventory and delivery.
Configure and run demand forecasting, ordering, and inventory settings in Amazon's internal systems.
Share progress in regular meetings with your publishers, and agree on what to tackle next.
Work on analysis and initiatives that improve the metrics the whole team owns, beyond your own publishers.
Take part in projects that run across the Books organization, and in improving and automating how the team works.
About the team
書籍事業部について
読書は健全な社会にとって必須であるという信念のもと、読者がより手軽に本を読み、読書からより多くを得られるようにすることが私たちの使命です。
本ポジションが所属する Strategic Supply Chain Management チームのミッションは、お客様が読みたい書籍を、読みたいタイミングでお届けすることです。そのために、適切な商品を、適切な数量で、適切な場所に、適切なタイミングで揃えることに取り組んでいます。
日本の紙書籍のサプライチェーンは、いま転換点にあります。従来の延長線上の改善では解決できない構造的な課題が増えており、業界全体で大きな変革が必要だという認識が共有されつつあります。それは同時に、お客様のための改善に取り組む機会が豊富にあることを意味します。特に、AI モデルなどの技術を活用してサプライチェーンや在庫管理の業務を自動化し、お客様への提供価値を高める余地が大きく残されています。
当チームの働き方には3つの特徴があります。1人が担当出版社のオーナーとして意思決定を任されること、議論の土台を感覚ではなくデータに置くこと、そして担当や職種の境界を越えて互いに助け合うことです。
紙書籍という、当たり前に存在するように見えて実は大きな課題を抱えるビジネスを、持続可能なかたちで続けていくために、前向きな姿勢と強いオーナーシップ、そしてチームワークをもって取り組んでいます。
About the Books organization
We believe reading is essential for a healthy society. Our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and to get more out of reading.
The mission of the Strategic Supply Chain Management team, where this role sits, is to deliver the books our customers want, at the time they want them: the right products, in the right quantities, in the right place, at the right time.
Japan's print book supply chain is at a turning point. Structural problems are growing that incremental improvement alone will not solve, and a shared view is forming across the industry that significant change is needed. That also means there is no shortage of opportunity to improve things for customers. In particular, much room remains to use technology such as AI models to automate work across supply chain and inventory management, and to raise what we deliver to customers.
Three things define how our team works. Each of us owns the decisions for our own publishers. We put data, not instinct, at the base of our discussions. And we help each other across the boundaries of assignments and job families.
This is work that takes a business most people assume will always be there, but which in fact faces real structural challenges, and turns it into something sustainable. We are looking for someone who will take that on with a positive outlook, strong ownership, and teamwork.
Basic qualifications
・工学、ビジネス、または関連分野における学士号・2年以上の社会人経験
・日本語が母国語、もしくは、JPLTN1 / N2 ビジネスレベルの英語
・基礎的なOffice操作 (Excelによる分析、Powerpointによるスライド作成、Wordによるドキュメント作成）
・KPIなどのメトリック作成・改善の経験、および、生データからインサイトを抽出する分析力
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business or related field
- 2+ years of professional non-internship experience.
- Native Japanese or JPLT N1/N2 and business level English required
- Basic capability for MS Office (analysis using Excel, slide creation using Powerpoint, document creation using Word)
- Experience with reporting technologies and analytics. Capable of turning raw data into information and insights
Preferred qualifications
・4年以上の社会人経験・事業会社における経営企画/サプライチェーン関連の業務経験又はコンサルティング会社におけるアナリスト/コンサルタント経験
・出版業界における経営企画/サプライチェーン関連又は営業に関連する経験
・優れた意思決定力、書面および口頭でのコミュニケーション力、実践的で常識的なアプローチに基づく実行力
・優れた分析能力と問題解決能力。 大規模で複雑なデータを処理する能力と、統計学またはその他の分析手法に精通している
・優先順位付け、スケジュール管理、時間管理、期限の遵守などの優れた実行力
・カイゼン、リーン生産方式、シックスシグマなどのプロセス改善の経験
- 4+ years of professional non-internship experience.
- Job experience for business planning/supply chain-related field or analyst/consultant experience at a consulting firm
- Job experience for business planning/supply chain-related field or sales experience in the publishing industry
- Possess excellent business judgment, strong written and oral communication skills, and a practical, common sense approach to getting things done.
- Strong analytical abilities and problem solving skills. Ability to work with large, complex data sets and familiarity with statistics or other analytical techniques.
- Strong organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management and meeting deadlines.
- Experience with improvement techniques such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma.
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