Description

Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. By giving customers what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Amazon hires the world's brightest minds and offers them an environment in which they can invent and innovate to improve the experience for our customers.

Books Organization:

We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. We work every day on behalf of customers and readers to solve complex technical and business problems with ingenuity, simplicity and the spirit of innovation that is part of our DNA—and we want you to help in our continuing mission to reinvent reading.

The Books team in UK is looking for an enthusiastic and organized Senior Vendor Manager to help us to scale our business and provide strategic services to leading publishers, on both digital and physical formats.

The successful candidate will have exceptional project management, communication, analytical skills and big ideas on how to create great customer experiences. They will be detail-oriented, organized and capable of handling multiple projects at once, working to tight deadlines, dealing with multiple teams and corresponding with publishers. The right candidate will be ambitious and keen to move into a fast paced environment.

What you'll be doing:

· Create and implement the overall business strategy for their vendors' business including managing vendor negotiations and peak periods.

· Act as the ‘business owner’ for their vendors' business, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business and PL, this entails owning forecasting, monitoring and reporting on the business

· Have a thorough understanding of the industry, seasonality and business trends/events, and continually monitor competitor/industry developments

· Manage strategic programs and relationships with leading publishers to create a great customer experience and help the books business and publishers grow

· Think backwards from the customer means thinking across reading/listening formats: physical books, kindle, Audible

· Work closely with the marketing, supply chain and product management teams within Books and Amazon to align all efforts and deliver results

If you are ready to change the world, work hard and engage in a rapidly changing industry, this position is right for you. We offer a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be contributing to Amazon's innovation.

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of with Excel experience

Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience

Experience using data to influence business decisions

Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration

Experience with business analysis and PL management

Experience in account management, project/program management, or buying

Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams

Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience

Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL

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