Posted 16 June, 2026
Senior Category Manager, Sports & Outdoors
Amazon
AU, NSW, Sydney
Full Time
Reference: 71_457721_fc6c75e1-4128-4c38-9e96-81656d488a9f
At Amazon, it's our goal to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. To support our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Category Manager to join our Home and Leisure team. The Home and Leisure business group is one of Amazon Australia's core retail divisions, encompassing a dynamic and growing portfolio of categories including Sports & Outdoors, DIY, Toys and more. Sports & Outdoors builds on Australia's passion for active lifestyles, delivering a compelling range of products to help customers pursue the activities they love - from fitness and camping to team sports and adventure.
This role is multi-faceted in nature, working cross functionally with various teams including marketing, finance, supply chain, Amazon Ads, and our external supplier partners. As a Senior Category Manager, you will define and drive the strategic direction for your category - setting the vision for where it needs to go and leading cross-functional teams to get there. You will be successful in the role by building long term, strategic relationships with our existing suppliers and also engage with new brands to help drive incremental growth opportunities for them on Amazon.com.au. You will be an effective negotiator and act as a Subject Matter Expert in a particular field and play a role coaching and developing members of the team and peers across the business.
An Amazon Senior Category Manager also complements their investments in relationships and people with a sharp, analytical mind: being comfortable with a suite of metrics across multiple KPIs is a must, likewise is holding an affinity with complex analysis and making data-driven decisions. Adding structure to processes, creating rigorous mechanisms and understanding operational flows will be part and parcel of your role.
Key job responsibilities
- Managing a full P&L, including planning, forecasting and driving growth for the categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business.
- Setting goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision.
- Driving strategic negotiations with external vendors.
- Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within the category and across the retail business as a whole.
- Leading cross functional collaboration on necessary systems and processes to support business needs, including retail systems, site merchandising and in-stock.
- Identifying industry trends that are relevant to customer selection and experience
- Innovating and implementing new customer and vendor programs.
- Representing Amazon when meeting with senior executive teams from top vendors and building long term strategic relationships.
This role is multi-faceted in nature, working cross functionally with various teams including marketing, finance, supply chain, Amazon Ads, and our external supplier partners. As a Senior Category Manager, you will define and drive the strategic direction for your category - setting the vision for where it needs to go and leading cross-functional teams to get there. You will be successful in the role by building long term, strategic relationships with our existing suppliers and also engage with new brands to help drive incremental growth opportunities for them on Amazon.com.au. You will be an effective negotiator and act as a Subject Matter Expert in a particular field and play a role coaching and developing members of the team and peers across the business.
An Amazon Senior Category Manager also complements their investments in relationships and people with a sharp, analytical mind: being comfortable with a suite of metrics across multiple KPIs is a must, likewise is holding an affinity with complex analysis and making data-driven decisions. Adding structure to processes, creating rigorous mechanisms and understanding operational flows will be part and parcel of your role.
Key job responsibilities
- Managing a full P&L, including planning, forecasting and driving growth for the categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business.
- Setting goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision.
- Driving strategic negotiations with external vendors.
- Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within the category and across the retail business as a whole.
- Leading cross functional collaboration on necessary systems and processes to support business needs, including retail systems, site merchandising and in-stock.
- Identifying industry trends that are relevant to customer selection and experience
- Innovating and implementing new customer and vendor programs.
- Representing Amazon when meeting with senior executive teams from top vendors and building long term strategic relationships.
