Senior Lead Vendor Manager and Category Director

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly analytical and team-orientated Senior Lead Vendor Manager and Category Director to join our Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch) team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of where innovation meets customer obsession.

Key Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will have a broad skill set including strong vendor management and negotiations skills, leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class grocery shopping experience for our customers.

Responsibilities

  1. Develop and guide a team of buyers/vendor managers for the Amazon Fresh Stores.
  2. Build strong and sustainable relationships at senior levels with our vendors. Find creative solutions in negotiations and facilitate discussions to drive profitable growth.
  3. Improve the customer experience by further building and inventing our customer proposition and further optimize the basics (category strategy, price, selection, convenience).
  4. Turn in-depth analysis into strategic insight, present these in convincing figures and turn them into action.
  5. Seek out ways to automate and simplify manual processes to improve productivity.
  6. Act as the ‘business owner’ for their categories, managing a full P&L, including; planning, forecasting and driving growth to meet and exceed revenue and profitability goals.
  7. Setting the goals and strategic direction for their vendors and initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader business goals.
  8. Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within their categories.
  9. Driving negotiations and representing Amazon when meeting with senior leaders.
  10. Have a thorough understanding of seasonality and global trends/events, and continually monitor competitor/industry developments.
  11. Collaborating with cross-functional teams that support business needs, including marketing, merchandising and in-stock, to ensure processes are in place for flawless execution, while meeting tight deadlines.

Location

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR | Manchester, GBR



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