Amazon - Senior Vendor Manager

- There are 15M small and medium Mom and Pop stores in the country representing hundreds of billions of dollars in yearly purchases. Many of these businesses struggle to get relevant selection, competitive pricing, and trusted and convenient buying options.

- AmazonDistribution.in is an offering from Amazon to delight the business customers who have not been served well by the existing solutions with the aim to provide them the largest selection, competitive pricing and trusted and convenient buying experience. If you like to swim in unchartered territories then this is your opportunity to solve problems that no one has attempted to solve before. We work like a well-funded, high octane startup driven by the passion to bring the Amazon experience to our business customers.

- As a Senior Vendor Manager in this team, you will be responsible for bringing the Amazon experience to business customers across your categories. This will involve dealing with high levels of ambiguity, deep problem solving abilities that will help match our online competencies to the offline world and to think through large amounts of data and develop recommendations that will help us sell to a new customer base for Amazon. You must be a strong negotiator and be passionate about bringing the best selection, negotiating the best pricing and getting the best of Amazon's product tools to help your business customer

About the Role:

- As a Senior Vendor Manager, you will focus on delivering a world-class customer experience and exceptional sales and margin growth for the sub-categories that you are responsible for as we rapidly expand and grow our selection from around the world.

- The person who joins the team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. He or she will be responsible for signing the right mix of vendors, adding unique local selection for Amazon India, smart pricing, driving margin improvements and delivering top notch customer experience.

Responsibilities

This person will have responsibility for:

- Building selection and Vendors: Will be responsible for determining customer market needs, growing selection across sub-categories, brands and use cases, managing vendor partners, negotiating and optimizing vendor terms and getting support for marketing campaigns.

- Pricing and Demand generation: Responsible for pricing and demand generation. This includes working with other members on the vendor management team as well as with our member acquisition team, marketing and product management team to come up with innovative online and offline promotions and site features to improve customer experience.

- Channel Management: To work closely with our online and offline partners and customers to ensure that we are keenly listening to the voice of the customer and delighting them through selection, pricing and product features.

- Business planning and communication to senior management: Develop a short-term and long-term plan for growth and report to Senior Management on a regular basis on the state of key top line and bottom-line metrics and risk factors.

- Innovation: Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast growing business. This will include liaising with the global Amazon community to drive innovation and share best practice.

Basic Qualifications :

- An understanding of and passion for e-commerce.

- MBA from Tier 1 institute

- Experience in Business, Category Management, trade marketing, National Account management, FMCG Brand and P&L management,

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Proven negotiation skills, influencing abilities

- Strong numerical and analytical aptitude

- Proven experience leading cross-functional projects

- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment

- Good organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines

- Detail-oriented

- Technical aptitude and agility to learn web-based tools

- Experience in project ownership and using customer data to identify and prioritize opportunities

- The position will be based in Amazon's office in Bangalore.