Senior Vendor Manager at Amazon

Key job responsibilities

• The SVM 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 negotiations 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).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Supply chain, strategy, brand management or finance background
• Excellent presentation, organization and account management skills
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Project management skills
• Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives influencing on competing priorities
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management