Senior Vendor Manager
Amazon
Senior Vendor Manager
Amazon
Sells products online and rents cloud computing
Amazon Kindle team is looking for is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric team player to help us continue to revolutionize how customers buy and read books. If you are ready to change the world and engage in a rapidly changing industry, this position is right for you. We offer a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be contributing to Amazon's innovation.
The ideal candidate has a track record of strong negotiation, relationship building, and analytical skills, ability to recommend and execute a vision, and build programs and features from the ground up. You will be able to influence across multiple company organizations, be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker and have a history of delivering results. You will establish and drive new relationships and strengthen existing relationships with publishers. You will be customer focused, entrepreneurial, a proven self-starter, and have the demonstrated ability to invent.
Within this role, you will:
- Be an expert relationship manager and communicator, who works closely with publishers up to C-level to ensure Amazon customers can find any book in our store, download it quickly at a great price and have an excellent experience reading it.
- Be responsible for specific publisher level metrics around selection, subscription participation, and profitability
- Become an ebooks expert who understands industry trends, the competitive environment and readers’ needs - and innovates in response.
- Work closely with leaders across the Kindle organization – locally and globally – to ensure we continue to develop new services and products.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and automation
This position can be based at London.
Key job responsibilities
- Strategic management of key publishers
- Defining category strategy/vision and executing it with stakeholders
- Master's degree
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in procurement, planning, e-commerce, strategy, consulting, or finance
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with top management (internal and external)
- Ability to influence and negotiate with various stakeholders (internal and external)
- Strong data analysis and P&L management capabilities
- Fluent in French and English
- Experience in digital, e-commerce, and/or logistics
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Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
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