Amazon Canadas Hardlines team is seeking a selfdriven Vendor Manager candidate. Vendor managers work directly with vendors to improve value selection and convenience for customers across their business. They play a critical role in managing strategic and established brands to drive profitability and topline performance for their category.
The ideal candidate would have the following skills:
Strong oral and written communication
Project and stakeholder management
Proven ability to multitask
Quantitative analytics
Detail Oriented
Thrives in ambiguity and fastpaced environment
The candidate will use customer obsession and analytics to inform creative solutions to drive their business. The Vendor Manager will have the opportunity to engage with multiple internal teams to optimize product line performance for key manufacturers (vendors) on . They will utilize strong communication skills to collaborate with internal crossfunctional partners such as site merchandising buying pricing inventory management operations online marketing and finance to drive performance for our vendor partners.
This position provides the candidate an opportunity to execute analytical deeps dives that help inform category growth strategies and initiatives. In addition to gaining vendor management experience this candidate will have exposure in driving category growth. Vendor Managers get the unique opportunity to work at the most innovative online retailer while developing strong functional skills in online merchandising/marketing buying planning/forecasting pricing and business analytics.
Key job responsibilities
This role is responsible for leading key categories and brand relationships in the PC Devices industry for and driving growth of the business. It includes building strong vendor and brand relationships contract negotiations selection and catalog inventory optimization forecast generation product launches pricing and conducting detailed analysis to identify opportunities to drive growth for the vendor and .
In this role you will be managing top ingredient vendors (Intel AMD Qualcomm NVIDIA etc. along with directly working with PC Laptops manufacturers. The role will include building a strategic roadmap by partnering with key PC Devices manufacturers.
As the P&L owner you will also work cross functionally with other product marketing and operations teams across Amazon to raise the bar on customer experience.
About the team
The PC Devices team is a team of 5 based across North America (Seattle Vancouver and Toronto). We are responsible for buying and planning for PC devices category (Laptops Chromebooks Desktops and Tablets). Our vision is to make Amazon the preferred destination for customers by offering them right selection pricing and merchandising. We work collaboratively with partner teams (finance marketing instock etc. and have regular connect with senior leadership on business deliverables and strategic alignment.
3 years of with Excel experience
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
Bachelors degree
Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
Experience in vendor negotiations pricing and promotion inventory management and product development
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $66000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $141100/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.