Vendor Manager, Amazon Now SA

Overview

Interested in working on an innovative and high-impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery? The MENA Grocery team (Amazon now SA) is offering a role to own building new business from ground zero. We are seeking a self-starter who can quickly familiarize themselves with this fast-paced environment, build relationships and trust with cross-functional teams, and assume ownership within the program which will require understanding of complex business/tech/ops processes at Amazon and our partners and devising an optimal engagement model. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. High judgment, analytical talent and good document writing skills with concise communication are essential to success in this role. In this role, you will influence internal and external stakeholders and leadership to buy in to your strategic direction, and build a buying and sourcing strategy for a new category while ensuring flawless execution and continuously analyzing key metrics to drive improvements for your business.

The VM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiation skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world-class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast-paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment.

The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast-paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

Responsibilities

• Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities
• Negotiations- Build strategic partnership, align and close an end to end vendor relationship and terms of trade, operating model contracts from vendors
• Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store-front
• Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key input metrics such as selection, profitability, pricing, availability
• Post launches, own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor, Ops, Advertising)
• Define selection assortment, continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage and improve CX
• Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
• Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events
• Prepare, pitch and close Annual JBP
• 3+ years of Excel experience

Qualifications

• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• Experience in vendor management
• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing them to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
• Knowledge and experience in Saudi retail and Quick Commerce market

Additional information

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