Senior Vendor Manager, Pet Products

Amazon; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global e-commerce leader in Comunidad de Madrid is seeking a Senior Vendor Manager to enhance vendor relationships and drive category success. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, relationship management expertise, and experience in high-level negotiations. This role requires collaborating with cross-functional teams and maintaining a customer-centric approach to improve the shopping experience.

Formación

• Experience successfully negotiating with senior leaders across a large enterprise.
• Experience with high-level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management.

Responsabilidades

• Act as the 'business owner' for your category, understanding all internal and external variables.
• Manage all key vendor relationships in your category.
• Identify selection expansion opportunities and onboard new brands.

Conocimientos

Analytical skills

Relationship management

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Descripción del empleo

Description

Do you want to help us build the future of Amazon's EU Stores business in the Consumables division? Are you interested in working in a high impact role and with exposure to senior leaders? The EU Pets team is looking for a Senior Vendor Manager (SVM) to develop its categories and vendor relationships across EU.

To achieve success in this role, you will have strong analytical, relationship management and organizational skills. You will also be comfortable picking up new technologies. You'll be an analytics expert, identifying problem areas and then creating plans to find resolutions, with the ability to pick up new skills quickly. You'll have strong communication skills and a proven track record of building positive working relationships.

Key job responsibilities

• Act as the 'business owner' for your category, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact your business (forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on the business, along with responsibility for driving projects and promotions to achieve business objectives).
• Manage all key vendor relationships in your category - manage supplier/partner contracts, manage day-to-day relationships, and negotiate and secure necessary funding.
• Understand the industry, seasonality and business trends/events, and continually monitor competitor/industry developments.
• Identify selection expansion opportunities and work with partner teams to onboard new brands to Amazon.
• Have an understanding of the customer needs, both existing and potential, and use that knowledge to advocate for and improving the shopping experience.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, and communicate with internal and external teams, while meeting tight deadlines.
• Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability targets.
• Seek out ways to automate & simplify manual processes.

A day in the life

Deep dive analytics into financial reporting on business performance.

Engaging with vendor partners to develop their business with Amazon.

Working cross-functionally to develop customer growth projects.

Leading negotiations.

Partnering with AVS-Brand Specialists leading the day-to-day vendor relationship to keep us on track to deliver the Vendor Growth Plan (VGP).

About the team

Our EU Pets North Star is to become the preferred destination for Pets Parents and a credible multi-specialist partner for our vendors and sellers.

Internal job description
You may have the opportunity to manage an intern directly reporting into you

Basic Qualifications

• Experience successfully negotiating with senior leaders across a large enterprise

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high-level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management

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