Senior Vendor Manager Kindle

5 hours ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Amazon Full time £60,000 - £120,000 per year

Description
Amazon Kindle team is looking for 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, 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

  • 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.
  • Be responsible for specific publisher level metrics around selection, subscription participation, and profitability
  • Become an ebooks expert who understands industry trends, the competitive environment and readers' needs - and innovates in response.
  • Work closely with leaders across the Kindle organization – locally and globally – to ensure we continue to develop new services and products.
  • Identify opportunities for innovation and automation

This position can be based at London.

Key job responsibilities

  • Strategic management of key publishers
  • defining category strategy/vision and executing it with stakeholders

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fluency in French

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice ) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Company
- Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)

Job ID: A2911014

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