Vendor Manager, Electronics, Amazon Canada

Amazon; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in Toronto seeks a Vendor Manager to enhance vendor relationships and drive category growth. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication skills, experience in project management, and knowledge in analytical tools. Responsibilities include managing product selection, optimizing inventory, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This is an opportunity to gain valuable vendor management experience in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead key categories and brand relationships in Audio and Accessories.
• Build strong vendor relationships and conduct analysis to identify opportunities.
• Work cross-functionally with marketing and operations teams.

Skills

Strong oral and written communication

Project and stakeholder management

Proven ability to multi-task

Quantitative analytics

Detail oriented

Thrives in ambiguity and fast-paced environment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

SQL

Google Analytics

HTML

Job description

Description

Amazon Canada's Hardlines and Entertainment Media team is seeking a self-driven Vendor Manager candidate to join our Audio and Accessories team. Vendor managers work directly with vendors to improve value, selection and convenience for customers across their business. They play a critical role in managing strategic and established brands to drive profitability and topline performance for their category.

The ideal candidate would have the following skills:

· Strong oral and written communication

· Project and stakeholder management

· Proven ability to multi-task

· Quantitative analytics

· Detail Oriented

· Thrives in ambiguity and fast-paced environment

The candidate will use customer obsession and analytics to inform creative solutions 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 deeps 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.

Key job responsibilities

This role is responsible for leading key categories and brand relationships in Audio and Accessories for Amazon.ca and driving growth of the business. Job duties include building strong vendor relationships, contract negotiations, expanding selection, managing catalog data, inventory optimization, forecast generation, launching new products, managing pricing, and conducting analysis to identify opportunities to drive growth within the category. As the P&L owner, you will also work cross functionally with other product, marketing, and operations teams across Amazon to raise the bar on customer experience.

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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