Senior Vendor Manager, Tools
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 109000 - 185000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Senior Vendor Manager on Amazons Tools team youll shape the future of your category while driving business growth and delivering exceptional vendor and customer experiences. Owning the P&L for a major category youll be responsible for topline growth profitability customer experience and managing key vendor relationships. This dynamic role requires you to develop and execute strategic plans that expand product selection drive operational excellence and improve vendor terms all while driving improvements for our customers.
Your analytical skills will be critical as you dive deep into business performance metrics and industry trends. Youll lead long-term Joint Business Planning own complex negotiations and identify growth opportunities while finding creative ways to reduce costs. A key aspect of your role will be defining and prioritizing meaningful ways to delight our customers contributing to the development of new programs and features that improve both the shopping and selling experience on our platform.
Collaboration is essential in this position as youll partner with cross-functional teams including Supply Chain Finance Advertising Marketing and Customer Success to drive initiatives spanning the entire business. Your leadership will extend to mentoring and developing team members fostering a culture of high performance and innovation. As a strategic thinker youll translate data into actionable insights make high-impact decisions and ensure were well-positioned to meet customer needs throughout the year especially during peak seasons.
Key job responsibilities
Define the vision and business strategy for the category including North Star metrics and KPIs for measuring results
Manage category P&L and develop plans that drive long term revenue and margin improvements for the business
Develop vendor relationships inclusive of terms negotiations and growth focused initiatives
Identify process improvements drive broad adoption and provide an unparalleled customer experience
Devise clear frameworks for making day-to-day decisions
Lead execution of projects including building project plans
Drive commitments from internal teams including Marketing Advertising and Category Management
Dive deep into inputs and understand the downstream impact of changes to pricing selection and convenience.
A day in the life
As a Senior Vendor Manager you will have accountability for the business results for your categorys vendors. During a typical day you may find yourself negotiating contracts and working on a Joint Business Plan working with another vendor and stakeholder teams on expanding selection and finalizing promotion plans for an upcoming event. Diving deep into metrics for your category to prepare for weekly business reviews working with cross functional teams developing and implementing a new product feature. Among other initiatives you would be developing and growing vendor relationships driving sales and margin improvements and creating best-in-class customer experience
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of account management project or program management or buying experience
- 4 years of with Excel experience
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience with business analysis and P&L management
- Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
- 5 years of retail operations product or program management or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $109000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.
Your analytical skills will be critical as you dive deep into business performance metrics and industry trends. Youll lead long-term Joint Business Planning own complex negotiations and identify growth opportunities while finding creative ways to reduce costs. A key aspect of your role will be defining and prioritizing meaningful ways to delight our customers contributing to the development of new programs and features that improve both the shopping and selling experience on our platform.
Collaboration is essential in this position as youll partner with cross-functional teams including Supply Chain Finance Advertising Marketing and Customer Success to drive initiatives spanning the entire business. Your leadership will extend to mentoring and developing team members fostering a culture of high performance and innovation. As a strategic thinker youll translate data into actionable insights make high-impact decisions and ensure were well-positioned to meet customer needs throughout the year especially during peak seasons.
Key job responsibilities
Define the vision and business strategy for the category including North Star metrics and KPIs for measuring results
Manage category P&L and develop plans that drive long term revenue and margin improvements for the business
Develop vendor relationships inclusive of terms negotiations and growth focused initiatives
Identify process improvements drive broad adoption and provide an unparalleled customer experience
Devise clear frameworks for making day-to-day decisions
Lead execution of projects including building project plans
Drive commitments from internal teams including Marketing Advertising and Category Management
Dive deep into inputs and understand the downstream impact of changes to pricing selection and convenience.
A day in the life
As a Senior Vendor Manager you will have accountability for the business results for your categorys vendors. During a typical day you may find yourself negotiating contracts and working on a Joint Business Plan working with another vendor and stakeholder teams on expanding selection and finalizing promotion plans for an upcoming event. Diving deep into metrics for your category to prepare for weekly business reviews working with cross functional teams developing and implementing a new product feature. Among other initiatives you would be developing and growing vendor relationships driving sales and margin improvements and creating best-in-class customer experience
- Bachelors degree
- 5 years of account management project or program management or buying experience
- 4 years of with Excel experience
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience with business analysis and P&L management
- Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
- 5 years of retail operations product or program management or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $109000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Purchasing
- Procurement
- Vendor Management
- Process Improvement
- Pricing
- Project Management
- Relationship Management
- Contract Management
- Contract Negotiation
- negotiation
- Contracts
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