Vendor Manager, Amazon Now SA
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
Job Summary
In this role You will influence internal and external stakeholders and leadership to buy in to your strategic direction build a buying and sourcing strategy for a new category while ensuring flawless execution and continuously analyzing key metrics to drive improvements for your business.
The VM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors adding selection managing category profitability optimizing pricing and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development analytical horsepower excellent business judgment strong vendor management and negotiations skills deep curiosity about how things work and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced highly demanding and ambiguous environment.
The successful candidate would possess great business judgment with a track record of strong project delivery commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing marketplace legal supply chain operations among others).
The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment with a track record of strong project delivery commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing marketplace legal supply chain operations among others).
Key job responsibilities
This is an external facing role with close collaboration with external vendors to build seasonal selection and long shelf-life Fresh/Frozen space. The role has potential to build Amazon now SA Retail business from scratch define SOP for scaling the business on long term.
- Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities
- Negotiations- Build strategic partnership align and close an end to end vendor relationship and terms of trade operating model contracts from vendors
- Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store-front
- Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection profitability Pricing Availability
- Post launches Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor Ops Advertising)
- Define selection assortment continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage & improve CX
- Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
- Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events.
- Prepare Pitch & close Annual JBP.
- 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
- Experience in vendor management
- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
- Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
- Knowledge and experience in Saudi retail and Quick Commerce market
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