Overview
Position Title: Senior Manager
Company: Amazon
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Job Description:
Our overall mission is simple: We want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it. With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. This is your chance to make history.
Responsibilities:
- As a leader within the business you will share best practice across categories, also contributing to the international know how
- Turn in-depth analysis into strategic insight, present these in convincing figures and turn them into action
- Develop and lead the vendor management team.
- Improve the customer experience, optimize our offering, and getting the basics right (price, selection, convenience)
- Build strong and sustainable relationships at an executive level with our vendors. Find creative solutions in negotiations and facilitate discussions in order to drive profitable growth
- Work closely with stakeholder teams (e.g. supply chain, advertising) to align all efforts and deliver results
- Seek out ways to automate and simplify manual processes in order to improve productivity..
Requirements:
- Strong communication skills and an assertive approach, whilst maintaining your ability to be vocally self-critical
- A smart way of thinking in order to find innovative approaches for vendor management
- Highly analytical skill set with aptitude for figures and data-driven argumentation, very good Excel skills are a must
- Experience in building senior level internal and external relationships in a complex and dynamic organization and in influencing cross-functional teams
- University degree ideally in an analytical discipline, e.g. business or engineering
- A business focused way of thinking and a strong hands-on, results-driven mentality combined with a high desire to work strategically
- Negotiation skills
- Vendor Management and buyer experience at a senior level for several years ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management or consulting environment
