Los Angeles Hiring Event

Job Description

The hiring event will be held in Los Angeles, CA on September 13-15. This opportunity is a full-time, salaried position located in Seattle, Washington. The Amazon Retail team, one of our fastest growing businesses, is looking for self-driven Vendor Management candidates across various levels that have a proven track record of delivering results. These positions will play a critical role in managing strategic brands to drive the profitability and topline performance for their category. Vendor Management leaders are responsible for managing the full scope of their category and vendor portfolio. The role will also work with multiple product groups and leaders to grow sales on Amazon. com. This leader has the potential to oversee a team of direct reports at varied levels of experience as well as ownership over the end-to-end vendor relationship; from signing new vendors, leading negotiations, managing promotional activities and resolving operational or logistical issues that impact our customers. VM s will leverage key metrics to develop customer insights to promote innovation, and will utilize these insights to drive vendor participation in marketing, merchandising and promotional activities in order to aid overall business growth. In addition, this position is expected to provide leadership beyond your respective category - driving systems, process, and customer experience improvements that will benefit all categories across the North American Retail division at Amazon. RESPONSIBILITIES: CUSTOMER FOCUS Evaluates products and services to continually drive quality of customer experience Aggregates and escalates industry trends; ensures team prioritizes customer obsession Identifies opportunities to differentiate our customer experience from the competition STRATEGY Develops long-term strategies and significantly influences cross-category buying processes and standards as well as cross-category vendor negotiations Develops and implements action plans based on deep-dive analysis of product line metrics Provides recommendation on business opportunities and long-term strategy for multiple subcategories VENDOR MANAGEMENT Expands current vendor selection and secures new brand selection for multiple subcategories Focuses on strategic holdout or challenging vendors to increase category selection Drives strategic negotiations to deliver top- and bottom-line category growth Builds long-term relationships by creating value, opportunities for growth, customer acquisition, and brand-building for multiple vendors Increases vendor participation through deep knowledge of program opportunities BUSINESS OPERATIONS Dives deep into inputs and understands the downstream impact of changes to pricing, selection, and convenience for multiple subcategories. Owns the Retail P & L for multiple subcategories; develops plans that drive revenue and margin improvement for the business Creates strategic and prioritized vendor marketing plan that maximizes margin dollars and customer experience Job Description Vendor Management Audits all elements of multiple subcategory businesses Identifies areas that need vendor attention and directs team to address issues; acts as escalation point, helping team and vendor(s) resolve conflicts Creates long-term category solutions that automate or simplify category processes Works with internal technical, cross-category, and tech teams to drive multi-system process changes TEAM DEVELOPMENT Holds team accountable for achieving business goals Sets and articulates expectations around leadership behavior for team; models behavior that exemplifies the leadership principles Provides regular peer feedback and coaching Implements Amazon s best recruiting practices and continuously raises the bar for hiring Continuously builds network of talent inside and outside of company Creates mechanisms to help onboard all new talent to organization; mentors others Effectively coaches and gives feedback to direct reports to help develop talent and support career development Identifies resource needs for team Describes strategic importance of vision inside and outside of team

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 5+ years experience working in retail, consulting, finance, operations or technology industry
• Experience managing projects and/or programs
• Experience communicating and presenting to senior leadership
• Demonstrated leadership in forming and driving cross-functional teams
• Sound business judgment, strong analytical thinking and technical skills, and the ability to influence others driving clear results
• Ability to analyze and propose data-driven solutions
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal)

Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects - prioritization, planning and task delegation Supply chain, inventory management, finance, vendor and/or project management experience Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast paced environment Strong proficiency in analysis tools including Microsoft Excel, SQL, and statistics software Experience in building and developing a high performance team Proven ability to manage large and complicated projects with experience leading cross-functional projects and teams