Retail Vendor Manager, RVR, IES MVR

Careers at UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an Associate Vendor Manager in Dubai to recruit and onboard new vendors for Amazon.ae and Amazon.sa. You will manage vendor relationships from outreach to first units shipped, driving growth across UAE and Saudi Arabia.

You will collaborate with retail teams to build the best vendor selection and operate autonomously, balancing strategic and tactical actions to achieve business objectives.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Excel experience.
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product, or program management experience with negotiations and delivering results.
• Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• Experience managing large data sets and driving performance through data.
• Vendor negotiations, pricing, promotion, inventory management, and product development.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prospect and reach out to new vendors, analyze their potential for Amazon; lead first steps by cold-calling or attending events and explaining advantages of partnering with Amazon.
• Be a business consultant to new vendors; provide insights and help integrate catalogue data into Amazon store and train vendors on internal tools.
• Be an ambassador of Amazon for vendors, understanding their needs and success drivers.
• Plan, conduct, deliver and report analyses to understand the performance of recruited vendors.
• Help develop and improve recruiting and onboarding processes; assist in removing blockers and identifying improvement areas.

Skills

Excel

Negotiation

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 3+ years experience

Job description

Retail Vendor Manager, RVR, 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 Dubai 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 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

• 3+ years of Excel experience.
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience.
• Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements.
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development.

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