Vendor Manager - EU Fashion EU Luggage

Come build the future with us in the exciting and fast evolving EU Ecommerce Fashion industry. Amazons Fashion team is looking for a talented Vendor Manager with proven experience in strategy negotiations innovation and P&L management that thrives in a fastpaced datadriven environment.

The Vendor Manager is the owner of business relationships with our most strategic selling partners and thus plays a vital role in building and sustaining multiyear strategic relationships with external vendors driving growth and profit strategies advancing automation and process improvements and anticipating and responding to industry trends. Further responsibilities will be to coordinate Marketing / Advertising activities and to drive innovative projects to constantly improve the customer experience.

We are looking for a candidate with strong vendor management and negotiation skills analytical horsepower excellent business judgment deep curiosity about how things work and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The candidate must be willing to challenge the status quo in order to improve existing workflows and processes to step change how we do business and delight our customers. This individual will work with Selling Partners of all sizes and represent Amazon in interactions at all levels of these organizations. Therefore this individual must have excellent communication skills and be a strong influencer to drive joint progress on Selling Partner goals and Amazon priorities.

We are open to hiring in Paris Milan Madrid

Key job responsibilities

Manage and build comprehensive selection strategies utilizing industry supply chain conditions and market trends and mitigating risks through procurement term structure. This requires the VM to be solutionoriented & able to integrate strong and clear data analysis and business rationale into sound decision making

Negotiate best in class commercial terms and consistently audit Seller Partner P&L and business KPIs.

Deliver maximum product availability in the category through effective endtoend management of the supply chain.

Have a thorough understanding of the industry seasonality and business trends / events and continually monitor competitor / industry developments

Build in depth understanding of customer needs to advocate for and drive delivery of an unparalleled shopping experience for Amazon customers through project management

Develop and execute collaborative marketing and promotions strategies for your vendors.

Drive system / process improvements working with technical teams vendor operations and inventory management.

Cooperate and coordinate with crossfunctional internal and external stakeholders including dottedlined management of externalfacing service teams

Manage large scale catalogue selection be solutionoriented & able to integrate strong and clear data analysis and business rationale into sound decision making.

Manage item / vendor setup in various tools.

Bachelors 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 crossteam collaboration

Experience with business analysis and P&L management

Prior negotiation experience

Experience with SQL

Proven ability to influence others in a business setting

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Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

Presentation Skills,Purchasing,Procurement,Vendor Management,Process Improvement,Pricing,Project Management,Relationship Management,Contract Management,Contract Negotiation,negotiation,Contracts

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1