Sr. Vendor Manager, OHL

Amazon is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month Amazon attracts more than 40 million visits to its catalogue of more than 8.5 million unique products in 35 different categories including consumer electronics household goods fashion watches perfumes toys and baby products.
With more than 4000 employees We have offices and local operations in UAE Egypt Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India offering a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.
Job Description:
This role is currently an Individual contributor role
We are looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Senior Vendor Manager with Project Management expertise to help create a bestinclass experience for Retail Categories.
Responsibilities include managing the full scope of the category and vendor portfolio building and sustaining strategic relationships with key local and global manufacturers and suppliers improving the endtoend Amazon customer experience and helping to shape the evolution of how customers shop online for these categories.
We are looking for a passionate customer and category advocate within Amazon with proven analytical capabilities and project management skills strong attention to detail the ability to effectively prioritize and multitask and a proven record of driving category growth.
The ideal candidate is a selfstarter with a passion for retail high levels of flexibility and commitment and ability to hire and develop a highperforming team.
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 and implements action plans based on deepdive analysis of product line metrics.
Provides recommendation on business opportunities and longterm strategy for multiple subcategories.
Vendor/Project Management
Expands current vendor selection and secures new brand selection.
Focuses on strategic holdout or challenging vendors to increase selection.
Drives strategic negotiations to deliver top and bottomline category growth.
Builds longterm relationships by creating value opportunities for growth customer acquisition and brandbuilding for multiple vendors.
Increases vendor participation through deep knowledge of program opportunities.
InStock Management
Manage inventory availability and inventory health including: improved instock inventory planning vendor operational improvement (efficiency fill rates lead times) systematic forecasting efficiency improvement with vendors and within the fulfillment centers.
Drive tools and process improvements that affect purchasing and vendor management workflows.
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.
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 longterm category solutions that automate or simplify category processes.
Works with internal technical crosscategory and tech teams to drive multisystem 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.
Effectively coaches and gives feedback to direct reports to help develop talent and support career development.
Implements Amazons best recruiting practices and continuously raises the bar for hiring.
5 years of with Excel experience
5 years of account management project or program management or buying experience
Bachelors degree or 5 years of professional or military experience
Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL
Experience using data to influence business decisions
Experience driving internal crossteam collaboration
Experience with business analysis and P&L management
Experience driving direction and alignment with crossfunctional teams
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Required Experience:

Manager