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About the Role Senior Category Manager IN Grocery Amazon is seeking Category Managers for our locations and our affiliate companies in India. We are looking for a smart enthusiastic hard-working and creative candidate to join our team as a Category Manager. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work on a start-up business team.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be the business owner with responsibility for signing the right mix of vendors adding unique local selection driving margin improvements and delivering top notch customer experience.
He/she must be an effective leader and communicator working with our most important partners and vendors as well as with internal colleagues and groups. He or she will have strong business judgment with a track record of strong ownership values and relationship management skills.
Eligibility Criteria
Business buying or finance background
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Proven negotiation skills influencing abilities
Strong numerical and analytical aptitude
Proven experience leading cross-functional projects
Ability to think and react in a high-energy fast-paced environment
Good organizational skills including prioritizing scheduling time management and meeting
deadlines
Detail-oriented
Technical aptitude and agility to learn web-based tools
2 to 5 years of relevant experience in an account manager/vendor manager role desired
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will be innovative team oriented an effective communicator have a desire to participate in change and appreciate a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities. We are seeking someone with demonstrated history of successful project ownership and using customer data to identify and prioritize opportunities. An understanding of and passion for e-commerce is highly desired.
The position will be based in Bangalore.
- 5 years of with Excel experience
- 5 years of account management project or program management or buying experience
- Bachelors degree or 5 years of professional or military experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- Experience with business analysis and P&L management
- Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
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