Sr. Category Merchant Manager - Grocery, Amazon Grocery Partnerships
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Love food? Do you have a record of delighting customers and driving growth through clever expansion and collaborative partnerships? Amazon is looking for a customer-obsessed, creative, goal-oriented, highly entrepreneurial and experienced Sr. Category Merchant Manager (Sr. CMM) to join the Grocery Partnerships Team.
Our team enables Amazon customers to shop the selection from grocery stores on Amazon.com and receive their order on the same day. In this role, you will innovate on behalf of customers and Grocery Partners and change the way people buy groceries. This is an exciting opportunity to take on ownership in a fast growing business and work largely autonomously in an entrepreneurial environment.
The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who can build lasting relationships with future Grocery Partners, solve ambiguous problems, is able to switch gears quickly, and keep driving forward. You will be responsible for managing Grocery merchants and work with cross functional teams across business, operations, finance and program management. You will also have the opportunity to build new processes and implement scalable solutions that will grow with our business.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Managing a full P&L, including planning, forecasting and driving growth across their business
- Setting the goals and strategic direction for merchants and initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader business goals
- Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within their merchants and across the Grocery partnership business as a whole
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams including Operations, Marketing, CX, Program Management, and Finance to ensure processes are in place for flawless execution
- Communicating effectively to deliver through our internal and external partners, ensuring deadlines and profitability goals are met.
About the team
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Work Life Balance
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of account management, vendor management, consulting, business development or applicable experience; preferably within e-commerce
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Exceptional written communication skills and a proven track record of delivering projects from concept to launch
• Strong data extraction, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to think strategically and execute methodically
• Advanced Excel Skills
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience working in e-commerce, retail or with third party sellers,
• Experience utilizing SQL.
• Proven track record of innovation, regarding both new ideas and simplifying existing ones
• Ability to work successfully with teams across the organization as well as external partners.
• Meticulous attention to detail; the ability to juggle many tasks in parallel without lowering the quality bar.
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