Tayo Kayode
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About

Making complex commercial and operational systems easier to understand and run.

I help teams turn operational complexity into clearer planning systems, better decisions, and scalable execution.

Across nearly 13 years, I have worked across marketplace infrastructure, eCommerce logistics, consumer product, digital retail, and Amazon-scale network planning.

This portfolio reflects where I have reached so far: building and improving complex commercial and operational systems across Asia. It also reflects the direction I am moving in now—combining domain expertise, coding assistants, agents, and structured workflows to rethink how operators analyse problems, build tools, and make decisions.

Approach

How I operate

Operational intelligence

I connect metrics that are often reviewed separately. Forecast accuracy, actual volume, capacity, cost, seller behaviour, route design, and execution quality usually tell a more useful story together than they do independently.

Scalable execution

Analysis only matters when it changes how the organisation operates. I build planning mechanisms, workflows, tools, and cross-functional routines that help teams make better decisions consistently.

AI-enabled work

I use coding assistants and agentic workflows as an extension of operational thinking. The objective is not to automate everything, but to reduce repetitive work, improve analytical depth, create stronger documentation, and give operators more time to apply judgment.

Cross-functional leadership

My work has consistently sat between operations, product, engineering, finance, design, commercial teams, sellers, logistics providers, and senior leadership.

Focus

The kind of work I am useful for

Logistics and network planning

Forecasting, planning quality, network performance, cost, capacity, seller behaviour, route stability, and operational execution.

Marketplace and eCommerce operations

Seller systems, marketplace infrastructure, logistics integrations, payment operations, cross-border programs, and scalable commercial workflows.

AI enablement

Practical opportunities for coding assistants, agents, internal tools, and AI-enabled analysis inside existing business operations.

Product and operating-model design

Turning ambiguous business problems into clearer products, processes, mechanisms, and decision frameworks.

Strategic analysis and storytelling

Translating complex analysis into clear narratives, documents, dashboards, and recommendations that senior teams can use.

Experience

Career timeline

  1. Apr 2025Present

    Amazon

    Program Manager

    Tokyo, Japan

    Forecasting, network planning, stakeholder alignment, and sales and operations planning across Amazon Logistics Japan.

  2. Nov 2021Feb 2025

    Castlery

    Senior Manager, Product Management & UX

    Singapore

    Digital product, UX, omnichannel retail, and AI-assisted production workflows.

  3. May 2019Nov 2021

    Tencent

    Senior Product Manager

    Bangkok, Thailand

    Regional product delivery, cross-platform expansion, and user research for JOOX.

  4. Apr 2016Mar 2019

    aCommerce

    Regional General Manager

    Bangkok, Thailand

    Regional eCommerce logistics, 4PL operations, reconciliation automation, and social commerce.

  5. Jul 2013Apr 2016

    Lazada Group

    Regional Program Manager

    Bangkok, Thailand

    Marketplace infrastructure, seller systems, payment automation, APIs, and finance integrations.