Senior Category Manager

1 month 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 leader to join our Amazon Fresh business as a Senior Vendor Manager/ Buyer Team Lead. This role will involve leadership of a high performing team in vendor management, continuously improving our customer proposition, driving category profitability, developing and growing the category, and expanding our partnerships with key brands.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and guide a team of buyers/vendor managers for the Amazon Fresh Stores.
  • Build strong and sustainable relationships at senior levels with our vendors, finding creative solutions in negotiations and facilitating discussions to drive profitable growth.
  • Improve the customer experience by further building and inventing our customer proposition and further optimizing the basics (category strategy, price, selection, convenience).
  • Turn in-depth analysis into strategic insight, present these in convincing figures, and turn them into action.
  • Seek out ways to automate and simplify manual processes to improve productivity.
  • 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.
  • Setting the goals and strategic direction for their vendors and initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader business goals.
  • Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within their categories.
  • Driving negotiations and representing Amazon when meeting with senior leaders.
  • Have a thorough understanding of seasonality and global trends/events, and continually monitor competitor/industry developments.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Experience with vendor negotiations, pricing, and promotion or inventory management.
  • Experience using data to influence business decisions.
  • Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree.

Location

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

  • London, GBR
  • Manchester, GBR


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