Senior Vendor Manager Healthcare, Health and Personal Care
DESCRIPTION
Amazon’s Health & Personal Care team is looking for a talented Senior Vendor Manager to join our team and help us grow our EU Healthcare business (applicants welcome from any Amazon EU Retail office).
As a Senior Vendor Manager on the PAN EU Healthcare team, you will work to create earth's greatest shopping experience of Healthcare selection, with a store featuring more products, brands, & more compelling content than any store, online or offline and invent the future! You will be the main point of contact with Brands for the channels of Retail and will deal with top management of large brands.
Your Responsibilities:
- Define the selection strategy, which categories to focus on, which brands to prioritize, what type of product, price range, etc.
- Grow and manage the selection through strong vendor relationships, including assessing procurement conditions, recommending terms, and implementing procurement strategies.
- Act as pivotal role in the E-commerce business, liaising with Marketing, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Finance and Legal.
- Be responsible for the following areas of business management: promotional campaigns, support to supply chain management, product management, and vendor performance communications.
- Monitor and research industry and competitive trends to make the Amazon offering the best for the customer.
- Manage vendors and internal processes in daily operative tasks.
- Attend trade shows and vendor meetings as required.
To achieve success in this role, you will have strong analytical, relationship management and organizational skills. You will also be comfortable picking up new technologies. You'll be an analytics expert, identifying problem areas and then creating plans to find resolutions, with the ability to pick up new skills quickly. You'll have strong communication skills and a proven track record of building positive working relationships.
This position can be based in any of the Amazon EU Retail locations - London, Paris, Milan, Madrid or Munich.
Key job responsibilities
Pan-EU Vendor Manager for Healthcare HPC.
- Establishing and growing Pan-EU vendor relationships.
- Leading the Annual Vendor Negotiation (AVN) Pan-EU for a number of large scale complex vendors.
- Owning and building a Pan-EU Healthcare Category, identifying and analyzing growth opportunities to accelerate top line sales and bottom line margin.
- Identifying and acting upon key customer growth opportunities.
- Becoming a key member of the Healthcare team to grow our collective output to more than the sum of our parts.
A day in the life
Managing and balancing a number of key priorities:
- Deep dive analytics into financial reporting on business performance
- Engaging with vendor partners to develop their business with Amazon
- Working cross-functionally to develop customer growth projects
- Leading Annual negotiations
- Partnering with AVS-Brand Specialists leading the day-to-day vendor relationship to keep us on track to deliver the Vendor Improvement Plan (VIP)
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree, or experience in a professional field or military
- Experience with Excel
- Experience in account management, project/program management, or buying
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- Experience with business analysis and P&L management
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience negotiating with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience presenting to senior leadership
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