Senior Vendor Manager Kindle (French speaker), Kindle France

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to transforming the way customers buy and read books. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, where you will manage relationships with key publishers and influence business decisions through data analysis. You will collaborate with global leaders to innovate and enhance services, ensuring an exceptional experience for readers. If you are a self-starter with a passion for literature and technology, this position is perfect for you. Embrace the challenge of driving change in a rapidly evolving industry and make a real impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with key publishers to enhance customer experience.
• Drive innovation and automation opportunities within the Kindle team.

Skills

Negotiation Skills

Analytical Skills

Relationship Building

Communication Skills

Project Management

Data-Driven Decision Making

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Experience in Professional Field or Military

Tools

Microsoft Access

SQL

Excel

Job description

Job ID: 2911014 | Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)

The Amazon Kindle team is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric team player to help us continue to revolutionize how customers buy and read books. If you are ready to change the world, work hard, and engage in a rapidly changing industry, this position is right for you. We offer a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be contributing to Amazon's innovation.

The ideal candidate has a track record of strong negotiation, relationship building, and analytical skills, the ability to recommend and execute a vision, and build programs and features from the ground up. You will be able to influence across multiple company organizations, be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker, and have a history of delivering results. You will establish and drive new relationships and strengthen existing relationships with publishers. You will be customer-focused, entrepreneurial, a proven self-starter, and have the demonstrated ability to invent.

Within this role, you will:

1. Be an expert relationship manager and communicator, who works closely with publishers up to C-level to ensure Amazon customers can find any book in our store, download it quickly at a great price, and have an excellent experience reading it.
2. Be responsible for specific publisher level metrics around selection, subscription participation, and profitability.
3. Become an ebooks expert who understands industry trends, the competitive environment, and readers’ needs - and innovates in response.
4. Work closely with leaders across the Kindle organization – locally and globally – to ensure we continue to develop new services and products.
5. Identify opportunities for innovation and automation.

This position can be based in London.

Key job responsibilities

1. Strategic management of key publishers.
2. Defining category strategy/vision and executing it with stakeholders.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree, or experience in a professional field or military.
2. Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL.
3. Experience with Excel.
4. Experience in account management, project/program management, or buying.
5. Experience using data to influence business decisions.
6. Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration.
7. Experience with business analysis and P&L management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Fluency in French.

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Posted: March 4, 2025 (Updated about 7 hours ago)