Vendor Manager, Direct Imports Americas (Canada and Mexico), Direct Imports Americas (Canada and Mexico)

Looking for an opportunity to move fast and make a global impact

The (Global Purchasing Program) GPP organizations charter is to rapidly expand Amazon Stores presence globally partnering closely with category management business technology and product teams across Amazon to deliver the worlds largest selection to customers around the globe. The Global Purchasing Programs vision is to leverage our global footprint to offer more selection to worldwide customers.

We are looking for an experienced Vendor Manager to grow our new business owning strategy for growth vendor engagement and end to end P&L ownership. As a successful candidate you have a strong bias toward data driven decision making an innate ability to understand how metrics relate to business problems and thorough building requirements. You will have experience managing complex business and technical challenges have the ability to influence stakeholders to drive initiatives forward. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving challenging problems. You will tackle novel challenging situations every day and with Amazon around the world.

The Global Purchasing Program team is responsible for driving selection expansion to all Amazon Stores. As a leader in this organization you will shape the future of global ecommerce by building scalable systems and high-performing teams that deliver exceptional results. You will work closely with leadership to define strategy while empowering your team to execute with speed and precision. If youre ready to lead transformational change in international retail we want to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
Ownership of business metrics and actions to drive vendor experience engagement and profitability
Regular engagement with senior business leadership to discuss business results and growth opportunities (director/VP level)
Advocacy for the customer/user of the product features under your management
Investigate issues from different sources deep dive root cause analysis identify systemic gaps and ensure these gaps are addressed.
To build and maintain relationships with stakeholders product managers marketing and vendor management teams.
Proactively identify and resolve issues that may impair the teams ability to meet strategic product and technical goals
Make prioritization and trade-off decisions balancing the user experience business objectives and costs.
Operate autonomously; drive programs business goals and all customer and seller-facing aspects.
SQL proficiency preferred.


About the team
Inclusive team culture

At Amazon we embrace our differences and we are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives learn and be curious and earn trust.

Work Life Balance

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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- 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
- Bachelors degree or 3 years of professional or military experience
- 3 YOE with financial analysis and P&L ownership

- 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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