Senior Category Manager, Premium Beauty, GCC Consumables

Afaq Q Tech General Trading (Amazon); Riyad Al Khabra; On-site; SAR 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Vendor Manager to enhance the shopping experience in the Premium Beauty sector. This role involves strategizing category management, fostering vendor partnerships, and ensuring profitability while improving customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a knack for negotiation, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams. Join a dynamic environment where innovation thrives and your contributions can significantly impact customer experiences. If you are passionate about the beauty industry and eager to drive success in a fast-paced setting, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of account management or project management experience required.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to influence business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with Premium Beauty brands and drive business growth.
• Ensure best-in-class customer experience for Saudi customers.

Skills

Account Management

Project Management

Data Analysis

Negotiation Skills

Cross-Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

5+ years of Professional Experience

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Work hard. Have fun. Make history. At Amazon we expect no more and no less from you. Ever since Amazon opened its virtual doors, it has been the aim to become the most customer-centric company in the world. How is this achieved? By having people like you who make sure that customers find everything that they are looking for online – at great prices and convenience. Both Amazon and sellers who list their products on the site already offer millions of new and used items in a wide range of categories. And this is just the beginning. Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day. Immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and is continuously inventing new efficiencies and offering great opportunity for our customers and for you!

Amazon KSA is looking for a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working and creative candidate to join as a Senior Vendor Manager.
The Senior Vendor Manager will be responsible for developing and owning the strategy for categories at Amazon. Within this role, the individual will have the opportunity to establish and maintain strong vendor partnerships, manage category profitability, and identify means to improve the customer experience. We are seeking a seasoned business leader with a broad skill-set which demonstrates analytical horsepower, ability to lead and motivate a team, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiation skills, deep curiosity to uncover how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. You will work with vendors of all sizes and must have the leadership presence and communication skills to represent Amazon at all levels of these organizations. Experience in business analytics, strategic thinking, negotiations and operations are required.

Key job responsibilities

1. Unblocking Holdout brands in Premium Beauty and onboarding them on Amazon.
2. Manage CXO level relationships with Premium Beauty brands.
3. Build Joint business plans and deliver on topline and bottomline growth.
4. Be custodian of Customer experience in Premium Beauty and drive Best in class CX for SA customers.

About the team
GCC Consumables team is an exciting place to work where we are focused on reinventing the shopping experience for Everyday Essentials in GCC, offering the largest selection and best customer experience to become the most trusted Everyday Essentials Shopping destination. We are a team of industry and Amazon experts whose sole priority is to deliver best in class experiences for our customers and selling partners while nurturing a welcoming and trusting environment for one another.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
– Bachelor’s degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
– Experience using data to influence business decisions
– Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
– Experience with business analysis and P&L management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Arabic Speaker with experience in the field of Premium or Luxury Beauty.