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Thales

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 Location: Bangalore, India
 
 
 In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.
 
 
 Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India&rsquo;s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.
 
 
 Reporting to the relevant Global Category Manager and / or Category(ies) Team leader (CTL) depending of geographic location.
 
 
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 Annual volume of commitment and spend within relevant category (ies) and % of Savings
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 Number of suppliers for the given category and the structured closure of legacy, close and disengage suppliers as defined by the category strategies
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 Year on year competitiveness and cost reductions
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 Category operational performance (quality, on-time delivery, supply risk assessment, ..)
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 % Category compliance with policy suppliers based on both commitment and spend
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 Involve in the creation of specific contract(s) where there is a business need
 
 
 
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 The Category Buyer (CB) supports one or several procurement categories.
 
 
 The CB works in close relation with the relevant Global Category Managers (GCM), the Categories Team leader (CTL), the Category Manager(CM) and the Tactical Buyer (TB).
 
 
 All actions have to be in line with the strategy defined by the Global Category Manager and the CM. The CB's prime role is the management of the RFI or/and RFP's until PVet 4 stage (up to PVet 5 based on some Regions) in order to provide the competiveness to the business.
 
 
 In addition to this their main tasks are:
 
 
 Operational Support :
 
 
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 Ensure the BA's receive all required information to raise the Procurement Orders.
 
 
 
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 Procurement Competitiveness Capture:
 
 
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 Monitor the markets for defined categories including key players, newcomers, economic evolutions, market or regulation constraints, innovations and technology in order to support the development of the most up to date category strategies to the businesses.
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 Based on the above provide insights as to how products / projects could be more competitive via the adoption of different suppliers / methodologies / technology etc.
 
 
 
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 Governance, Leadership and Performance Management:
 
 
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 Ensure appropriate governance is applied using KPI's and root cause corrective actions
 
 
 
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 Supplier / Acquisition Management:
 
 
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 Performance management of the supply base in line with the standards set out by the Global Category Manager .
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 Ensure that supplier competitions follow the governance process and are balanced and fair in order to improve business and customer performance.
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 Ensure that global contracts / framework agreements are adopted and utilised.
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 Ensure that Thales e-Acquisition and all THALES procurement tools are fully used.
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 Based on the performance management of the supply base identify the suppliers who require focused development actions and ensure that the Supplier Development Team have the required support / leverage in order for these actions to be successful.
 
 
 
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 At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!
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Category Buyer

Livspace

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 Role Summary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Drive sales and service the demand optimally in the assigned category for the concept by ensuring the availability of the right product and brand mix at the right time
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Summary and Responsibilities
 
 
 
 
 
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 Be aware of the trends prevailing in the market
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 Timely and efficient implementation of buying and seasonal calendar
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 Ensure on time orders and re-orders
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 Ensure timely implementation of the planograms
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 Track sales performance
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 Regularly collect and analyze product feedback
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 Manage relationships with vendors and internal teams
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 Key Role
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Product Planning
 
 
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 Understand the trends prevailing in the international market and customize the same to suit the needs of the domestic market
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 Align buy with the plan and drive the sales, margin and inventory for the category as per the budget
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 Ensure range presentation is submitted to the concerned stakeholders at defined period
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 Define min max and inner/outer carton quantities and planogram the new ranges and concepts based on stock density
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 Initiate buying as per OTB and ensure timely delivery and availability of right stocks at the store
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 Timely and efficient implementation of buying and seasonal calendar
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 Ensure on time orders, re-orders are aligned to the financial norms
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 Manage end to end process of product PO, confirmations, inspections, shipments and deliveries
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 Prepare FABs and training module for assigned category
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 Product Presentation
 
 
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 Ensure timely implementation of the planograms
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 Coordinate with the design team and vendors for the right packaging of the product
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 Coordinate product availability for photo shoots, and products to be in the floor that are in catalogue
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 Product Performance
 
 
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 Track sales performance for category post launch and take required action
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 Regularly collect and analyze product feedback during store visits and sell through reports
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 Conduct periodic surveys to understand customer behavior, competition mapping and arrive at strategy pricing
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 Monitor the ageing of stock with reference to overall stock holding as per defined norms
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 Analyze and make recommendations for space planning to ensure the SPF and MPF for the department is in line with concept performance
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 Work closely with Planning and MC, VM, Designer, Graphic designer to translate category goals on the floor and for adequate stock availability on the floor
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 Relationship management
 
 
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 Manage relationships with brand partners, vendors, retail and planning team
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 Manage internal relationships for smoother implementation of business process
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Buying Assistant

MakeMyTrip

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 Role Overview
 
 
 
 Drive topline growth while optimizing costs and contribute towards conceptualization, planning
 
 
 &amp; execution of strategic initiatives. This is a cross-functional role involving extensive
 
 
 collaboration with product, marketing, customer support and finance to drive alignment on
 
 
 tactical and long term business goals.
 
 
 
 Key Responsibilities
 
 
 
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 Identify and scope up opportunities to grow business and market share of redRail, with a
 
 
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 strong focus towards product, competition &amp; consumer analytics.
 
 
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 Own the monetization charter of redRail
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 Analyze data and generate insights to identify relevant customer cohorts for short term
 
 
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 and long term business growth.
 
 
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 Manage promotions, monitor marketing budgets &amp; forecasts. Dive deep (as required) to
 
 
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 drive continuous improvement in key business KPIs.
 
 
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 Create and update annual operating plans and align all functions towards tactical and long
 
 
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 term changes in business priorities.
 
 
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 Own KPI reports, presentations and proposals for leadership alignment.
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 Collaborate with cross functional teams including product, marketing, customer support, finance to ensure that key initiatives that executed on time.
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 Partner with category teams within the group companies and share learnings/insights to
 
 
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 maximize synergies.
 
 
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 Seek out and drive B2B partnership opportunities for redRail to drive growth
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Category Manager

Amazon

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 Description
 
 
 
 We are seeking a talented, dedicated, and highly analytical Instock Account Specialist to drive selection and in-stock for Amazon. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role on an important initiative at Amazon. This position requires a candidate with proven analytical skills with experience driving process improvement, thought leadership, and delivering results.
 
 
 The Instock Account Specialist will be responsible for executing inventory strategies to optimize customer experience, sales, margin and turns. They will be relentlessly focused on delivering high in-stock rates in order to meet the needs of our customers. They will dive deep core drivers of in-stock performance, and proactively identify opportunities to improve tools and work flows. This role interacts closely with retail and operations business partners across Amazon, and is pivotal to the growth of this strategic initiative.
 
 
 Key job responsibilities
 
 
 
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 Maintain excellent in-stock rates for owned category and/or region
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 Execute inventory strategies to optimize sales, turns, and inventory health
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 Monitor, analyze and own key performance indicators such as in-stock rate, procurement lead time (PLT), fill rate, forecast accuracy and days of cover (DOC).
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 Forecast and manage efficient inbound and outbound inventory flows and health, including forecasting, purchasing, and removing unproductive inventory
 
 
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 A day in the life
 
 
 
 About The Team
 
 
 
 
 BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
 
 
 
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 1+ years of sales experience
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 Bachelor's degree
 
 
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 Preferred Qualifications
 
 
 
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 Experience with Excel
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 Excel
 
 
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 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
 
 
 
 
 Company
 
 - ASSPL - Karnataka
 
 
 Job ID: A3134838
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Instock Account Specialist, Amazon Now (Quick Commerce)

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 Description
 
 
 
 Are you a Strategic Sourcing superstar looking to make a big impact?
 
 
 As Amazon rapidly becomes the world's largest consumer of corporate services, our Global Corporate Procurement team is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join us in Bengaluru, India.
 
 
 Key job responsibilities
 
 
 Strategic Sourcing Specialists, working under the general direction of more senior team members, manage strategic sourcing engagements as a central team supporting a wide range of Amazon and subsidiary business units. In this pivotal role, you'll design innovative sourcing strategies and lead sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units. Your mission? Improve performance, optimize efficiency, ensure top-notch quality, and enable new initiatives to launch and scale with lightning speed.
 
 
 Demonstrating a passionate commitment to procurement excellence, you will flawlessly handle and execute sourcing initiatives, communicating efficiently and effectively with stakeholders across various business units. Adept at juggling multiple priorities, you will thrive in the fast-paced, dynamic environment, contributing to both short-term tactical and long-term strategic efforts.
 
 
 Does this sound like your next great challenge? If you're passionate about finding the right products, goods and services at the right time from the right suppliers, we want to hear from you.
 
 
 Come join our fast-paced, innovative team and help Amazon make history in Corporate Procurement.
 
 
 Apply today!
 
 
 A day in the life
 
 
 As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will support complex sourcing projects from start to finish. This will involve closely engaging with a diverse array of internal and external stakeholders to identify sourcing strategy - that balances business needs, effort, and efficiencies.
 
 
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 Review spend data and market trends for key indirect spend categories
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 Participate in cross-functional team meetings to align on sourcing priorities and requirements
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 Conduct market research and prepare RFP documents for upcoming sourcing projects
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 Manage the RFP process, evaluate proposals, negotiate commercial deal terms and contracts, and create award recommendations
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 Contribute to the development of category management plans
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 Provide procurement analytics and insights to support data-driven decision making
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 Stay up-to-date on industry trends and best practices in strategic sourcing
 
 
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 About The Team
 
 
 
 Key coverage areas: Marketing, Professional Services, Employee Services, Technology, Logistics, Real Estate and Facilities services.
 
 
 
 Basic Qualifications
 
 
 
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 3+ years of relevant strategic sourcing experience.
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 BS/BA Degree.
 
 
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 Preferred Qualifications
 
 
 
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 3+ years of in-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).
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 MBA/MS degree.
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 Extremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.
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 Passionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.
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 Good negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations.
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 Working knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.
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 Ability to assess risk and concisely explain complex issues to principal business owners.
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 Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization.
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 Good analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.
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 Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.
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 Excellent written and oral communication skills. 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
 
 
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 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
 
 
 
 
 Company
 
 - ADCI - Karnataka - A66
 
 
 Job ID: A3128653
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Strategic Sourcing Specialist, Global Corporate Procurement

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 Description
 
 
 
 About Amazon
 
 
 Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience &ndash; Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform. Amazon's evolution from website to e-commerce partner to development platform is driven by the spirit of innovation that is part of the company's DNA. The world's brightest technology minds come to Amazon to research and develop technology that improves the lives of shoppers and sellers around the world.
 
 
 
 About The Role
 
 
 
 Account Management- Brand Specialist
 
 
 As a Brand Specialist you would be a part of Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) Team of Retail Business Services, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy for managing Amazon AVS vendors.
 
 
 AVS team is looking for a bright, customer centric, driven, and creative candidate to join our team. You will interface internally with leaders from our Retail and Vendor Services teams and will be responsible for all aspects of the vendor&rsquo;s business with Amazon. You will engage directly with multiple internal teams to optimize the product line for key manufacturers (vendors) on Amazon.
 
 
 You will utilize a wide range of skills and work across major functional areas such as site merchandising, buying, inventory management, finance, operations and online marketing, to drive the performance of strategic vendor partners at Amazon. In this role you will be focused on operational aspects of managing the customer relationships with our vendors.
 
 
 You will conceive, create and analyze a wide range of marketing activities/campaigns to grow the vendor&rsquo;s traffic, brand awareness, customer conversion, and revenue on Amazon. Also, you will look into operational aspects of vendor&rsquo;s business with Amazon, root cause analysis of issues and opportunities affecting business.
 
 
 Timings will be as per EU shift, 12:00 pm IST to 9:00 pm IST
 
 
 Key job responsibilities
 
 
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 Establish long term partnerships with key vendor partners for the group of vendors handled.
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 Partnering with the Retail Category Team and build successful communication channels at all levels, set proper expectations, provide clear status communications, and manage towards a growth plan for the vendors.
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 Build and execute on a joint business plan that delivers on key business opportunities and relevant KPIs for the vendors and Amazon.
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 Conduct deep dive analysis on vendor issues and publish recommendations and action plans based on data to improve vendor experience.
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 Success will be measured by the performance of your vendors on input metrics and impact on creating a great customer experience for buying consumers.
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 Conduct regular WBRs, MBRs with the vendors, highlight business metric performance and building action plans.
 
 
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 Basic Qualifications
 
 
 
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 Experience with Excel
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 1+ years of Account Management/Vendor Management
 
 
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 3+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
 
 
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 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 https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
 
 
 
 
 Company
 
 - ADCI - Karnataka - A66
 
 
 Job ID: A3132974
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Brand Specialist

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