Associate Vendor Manager, IES MVR, RVR

Description

• Amazon is hiring a Vendor Manager VM to improve the experience for our customers in South Africa. This role will work across various internal and external teams to evaluate the customer landscapes, and invent innovative approaches to solve ambiguous problems.
• Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you!

Key job responsibilities

• The VM will be responsible for building long term strategic partnerships with vendors, adding relevant selection, managing profitability, optimizing pricing, and scaling vendors within Amazon.
• The best candidate will have a broad skill-set including analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers.
• The position requires a talented vendor manager who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen.
• Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders Finance, marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software and editing tools including HTML, Excel and SQL
• Experience in online retail
• Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML