Vendor Manager, Amazon Beauty

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Vendor Manager, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing vendor partnerships and driving category growth. This position offers a unique opportunity to engage with multiple teams, utilizing your analytical skills and customer obsession to optimize performance. You will gain invaluable experience in vendor management while working at one of the most innovative online retailers. This role serves as an excellent introduction to various business functions, paving the way for advancement in marketing, merchandising, and product management. If you're ready to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in retail or business management with strong negotiation skills.
• 3+ years of Excel experience and financial analysis expertise.

Responsibilities

• Manage P&L and vendor negotiations to drive profitability.
• Define growth strategies for vendors and oversee product launches.

Skills

Excel

Vendor Negotiations

Financial Analysis

Business Management

Data Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Professional or Military Experience

Job description

Job ID: 2898373 | Amazon.com.ca, ULC - A49

The Amazon.ca Beauty team is seeking a self-driven Vendor Manager candidate to support our Vendor Management team and our vendor partners. Vendor Managers work directly with vendors to improve value, selection and convenience across their business. They play a critical role in managing strategic and established brands to drive profitability and top line performance for their category.
The candidate will use customer obsession and analytics to drive their business. The Vendor Manager will have the opportunity to engage with multiple internal teams to optimize product line performance for key manufacturers (vendors) on Amazon.ca. They will utilize strong communication skills to collaborate with internal cross-functional partners, such as site merchandising, buying, pricing, inventory management, operations, online marketing, and finance to drive performance for our Amazon.ca vendor partners.

This position provides the candidate an opportunity to execute analytical deep dives that help inform category growth strategies and initiatives. In addition to gaining vendor management experience, this candidate will have exposure in driving category growth. Amazon.ca Vendor Managers get the unique opportunity to work at the most innovative online retailer, while developing strong functional skills in online merchandising/marketing, buying, planning/forecasting, pricing, and business analytics.

Vendor Manager roles are in the General Management career path at Amazon. This role is an excellent introduction to a wide variety of business functions and provides advancement opportunities to more senior roles in Marketing/Merchandising, Vendor Management, Product Management and Inventory Management.

Key job responsibilities

1. P&L Management
2. Vendor Negotiations
3. New Product Launches
4. Ownership of key team-level business functions (pricing, selection, profitability)
5. Defining vendor and category level growth strategies

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. 3+ years of Excel experience
2. 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
3. Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience
4. Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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

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