Associate Vendor Manager, IES MVR

Jobs at Dubai; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring an Associate Vendor Manager to join the Retail Vendor Recruitment (RVR) organization. You will recruit and onboard new vendors, coordinate with retail teams, and manage onboarding through first units shipped for Amazon.ae and Amazon.sa.

Based in Istanbul with responsibilities across UAE and KSA markets, you will build the best vendor selection, analyze vendor performance, and drive growth in a fast-paced, often ambiguous environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Identify, prospect and reach out to new vendors and analyze potential.
• Be a business consultant to new vendors and help integrate catalog data.
• Be an ambassador of Amazon for the vendors and understand their needs.
• Plan, conduct, deliver and report analyses to understand vendor performance.
• Help develop recruiting and on-boarding processes and remove blockers.

Skills

Account management

Project management

Buying experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

SQL

Google Analytics

HTML

Job description

Associate Vendor Manager, IES MVR

DESCRIPTION

Amazon, one the world’s leaders in e-commerce, is expanding its Retail business and looking for a smart and ambitious Associate Vendor Manager based in Istanbul to enable new collaborations with vendors aiming at integrating their product portfolio into the Amazon.ae and Amazon.sa stores. 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!

Operating in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment you will have full responsibility for achieving business objectives. You will need to engage in projects that will drive business growth and help shape the future of Amazon Retail in the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We expect that you can work autonomously, think both strategically and tactically, and take full control and responsibility for achieving your goals.

Amazon is looking for a talented Associate Vendor Manager to join the Retail Vendor Recruitment (RVR) organization. As part of the retail organization, the candidate will help to recruit and be in charge of on-boarding new vendors. Targeting the most relevant selection for our customers, you will aim at recruiting new vendors and make their selection available on the website. In close coordination with retail teams, you will drive new vendors through all the on-boarding phases, up to their first units shipped.

Key job responsibilities

Your objectives will be to build the best possible selection for our customers with the development of partnerships with new vendors. Your job will consist of prospecting, assessing, recruiting and integrating vendors for Amazon marketplaces. In your day-to-day job, you will be will be working on multiple prospects including:

• Identify, prospect and reach out to new vendors, analyze their potential for Amazon. You will lead first steps, by cold-calling potential partners or attending commercial events and trade fairs, and confidently explaining advantages and benefits of partnering with Amazon
• Be a business consultant to new vendors and provide insights and advice for them, being able to deal with different business profiles and sectors. Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon store, master Amazon’s internal tools and train vendors on how to use these tools.
• Be an ambassador of Amazon for the vendors, developing deep knowledge of their needs and success drivers
• Plan, conduct, deliver and report analyses to understand the performance of recruited vendors
• Help to develop and improve recruiting and on-boarding processes, assist in removing any technical blockers and identifying technical improvement areas.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ 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

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