Senior Vendor Manager

Amazon; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is hiring a Senior Vendor Manager to improve the experience for customers in Africa. You will work across internal and external teams to evaluate customer landscapes and invent innovative approaches to solve ambiguous problems.

The role requires leadership, strong vendor management, and the ability to negotiate effectively while collaborating with marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain and operations to deliver a world-class shopping experience for our customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience negotiating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams.
• 7+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with vendors and expand product selection.
• Manage category profitability and pricing optimization.
• Demonstrate strong vendor management and negotiation capabilities across multiple stakeholders.

Skills

Vendor management

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Leadership development

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

Description

Amazon is hiring a Senior Vendor Manager (SVM) to improve the experience for our customers in Africa. This role will work across various internal and external teams to evaluate the customer landscapes, and invent innovative approaches to solve ambiguous problems.

Key job responsibilities

The SVM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree


• Experience negotiating with internal and external stakeholders


• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams


• 7+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA

Equal Opportunity & Diversity

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates.

We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.

Amazon Commercial Services (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd

Job ID: A10376187