Ahmet Okay

VP of Transformation and Strategy, Getir | Ex-Amazon, Ex-BCG | INSEAD MBA

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

E-commerce expert with executive level experience across all pillars of e-commerce value chain: Category management, Retail & 3P sales, Campaign management, Site Merchandizing, Digital Marketing, Selection, Warehouse Operations, Delivery (Shipping) Experience, Last Mile Delivery Operations, Supply Chain, After-sales, Customer Services

Experience

  • VP of Transformation & Strategy, VP of Supply Chain& Customer Services at Getir
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

    Ran CEO office, Built and owned end2end digital transformation agenda to drive efficiency and cost optimization, supported M&A and business integration processes. Led Supply chain, Demand planning, Dark store replenishment, Customer Services functions and implemented automation solutions

  • Co-Founder at Talarex AI
    Jun 2025 - Sep 2025 · 4 mos

    Helping logistics companies scale through AI agents and process automation

  • Amazon (Full-time · 5 yrs 10 mos)
    • General Manager, Consumer Electronics
      Sep 2022 - May 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Led Consumer Electronics businesses at Amazon Turkey Retail covering Wireless (smartphones, accessories, wearables), Video Games, Home Entertainment (TVs, headphones, speakers, sound systems), Cameras, Drones, Musical Instruments, delivering 50% growth in USD Turned around the business by optimizing overhead, labor, supply chain and customer return costs and scaling business while cutting 50% headcount. Transformed processes through genAI, built automation, planned and executed team reorganization. Owned Revenue Growth program through deals, built new revenue streams in retail media, and sustainable processes to secure incremental vendor funding

    • Country Manager, Last Mile Delivery
      Dec 2021 - Sep 2022 · 10 mos

      Started up Amazon Logistics in Turkey to launch& lead Amazon owned Last Mile Delivery operations

    • Senior Leader, Supply Chain and Instock
      Aug 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      Member of Amazon Country Leadership Team, helped Amazon to launch the business in Turkey and grow 100X Launched& implemented AI tools to automate buying and inventory management, processes Managed capacity during three COVID-19 waves, two peak seasons, keeping FC backlog and availability targets under control

  • Director Of Business Development at Mastercard
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2019 · 3 mos

    Digital Payments, Emerging Payments • Worked on emerging payment launches such as Mastercard Send, POS on Smartphone for Turkey

  • Hepsiburada (NASDAQ: HEPS) (2 yrs 7 mos)
    • Category Director
      May 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

      • Led online Retail and 3P (Marketplace) sales, marketing, category manager and sales ops teams for books, office supplies, stationery, game consoles, camera, music, movies and hobby categories, delivered ~100% annual growth

    • Senior Business Development Manager
      Sep 2016 - May 2017 · 9 mos

      • Worked with board members, private equity shareholders and executive team and developed 3-year strategy • Planned FMCG strategy including detailed 2-hour delivery plans to increase purchasing frequency of customers