Head of Vendor Management, Amazon Retail Consumer Electronics

Amazon; São Paulo; Presencial; BRL 900 000 - 1 300 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Amazon is seeking a Head of Vendor Management for its Retail Consumer Electronics segment. This role oversees vendor relationships, category strategy, and cross-functional collaboration with teams such as supply chain, marketing, advertising, and finance.

Strong leadership, negotiation, and data-driven decision making are essential. The ideal candidate will lead with empathy, develop high-performing teams, and drive revenue and profitability through strategic vendor partnerships and

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in team management
• Experience in retail, operations and/or business management
• Experience with vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion or inventory management
• Experience leading and transforming highly effective organizations
• Experience with P&L responsibility and delivering strong financial results
• Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices

Responsabilidades

• Develop high performing teams
• Identify and implement category specific initiatives
• Build trust and relationships with brands in the category
• Influence and work closely with cross functional partners
• Maintain a high level of curiosity in the pursuit of innovation for Amazon customers
• Deep dive data to identify gaps and opportunities in the business.

Conhecimentos

Team management

Vendor negotiations

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication with C-suite

Data analysis

Project management

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree

Ferramentas

Generative AI tools

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Head of Vendor Management, Amazon Retail Consumer Electronics

The Head of Vendor Managers position is for a passionate customer and category advocate within Amazon, with proven analytical capabilities and project management skills, past managerial prowess, great attention to detail, and the ability to effectively prioritize with a proven record of driving business results. The HoVM must be an excellent communicator, as they will be responsible for interacting and being the face of Amazon to C Suite partners and vendors, as well as working cross-functionally across Amazon divisions (e.g. supply chain, marketing, advertising, finance). The ideal candidate is someone that believes that people development is critical to group success, is passionate about innovating on behalf of customers and a self-starter with a passion for retail and a can-do attitude.

A successful HoVM will be able to:

• - Act as the business strategist for assigned categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact your business (this entails owning high level and granular data end to end tied to your business, a comfort with deep diving financial metrics, and an unrelenting focus on delivering results).
• - Manage vendor relationships. The HoVM should be an excellent negotiator - with the goal of mutually beneficial outcomes with our partners. They should be an experienced communicator with C Suite executives and be able to navigate challenging conversations.
• - Be customer obsessed. The HoVM should be able to confidently use customer knowledge to advocate for and drive delivery of site features that provide Amazon customers with an unparalleled shopping experience.
• - Lead with empathy. The HoVM role requires a high EQ and the ability to build sustaining teams. You should feel confident in your ability to prepare your team for success at Amazon.
• - Solicit and distribute feedback with their team. The HoVM should strive for self-awareness and should be able to confidently share growth opportunities to drive team development.
• - Create business plans for new opportunities and develop and execute project plans for the launch of new features, incorporating merchandising and pricing strategies
• - Coordinate with cross-functional teams, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders, while meeting tight deadlines
• - Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability targets
• - Have a thorough understanding of the industry, seasonality and business trends/events, and continually monitor competitor/industry developments.
• - Be proactive - the HoVM should be able to demonstrate a history of identifying defects and surfacing solutions to those problems.

Key job responsibilities

• - Develop high performing teams
• - Identify and implement category specific initiatives
• - Build trust and relationships with brands in the category
• - Influence and work closely with cross functional partners
• - Maintain a high level of curiosity in the pursuit of innovation for Amazon customers
• - Deep dive data to identify gaps and opportunities in the business.

Basic Qualifications

• - Bachelor's degree
• - Experience in team management
• - Experience in retail, operations and/or business management
• - Experience with vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion or inventory management

Preferred Qualifications

• - Experience leading and transforming highly effective organizations
• - Experience with P&L responsibility and delivering strong financial results
• - Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices

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