Vendor Manager 12 Month FTC, Amazon Fresh

*This is a 12 Month Fixed Term Opportunity*

Amazon Fresh team is looking for talented Vendor Manager who will be responsible for improving product selection and managing relationships with vendors.

Your Responsibilities:

CUSTOMER NEEDS

· Support identification of customer needs through pulling of metrics and providing overviews of industry landscape

· Continuously seek information to improve the customer experience and makes recommendations to the business

VENDOR MANAGEMENT

· Analyze existing reports to identify retail selection gaps

· Audit vendor costs and ensures that procurement costs are in line with goals

· Create and manage contractual agreements

· Prioritize vendor resources to improve customer experience, product availability and lowering prices and costs

· Is responsible to create product knowledge

· Implement promotional programs for vendor(s)

BUSINESS OPERATIONS

· Review and analyze vendor output metrics to make decisions regarding pricing, selection, and convenience and drives vendors to improve

· Manage the promotion set up and launch

· Regularly audit all vendor elements, performs deep dive analysis on problems to understand root causes and makes decisions based on data

· Act as an escalation point to respond to customer needs for vendor(s)

· Educate vendor(s) on tools, processes and resources

AUTOMATION & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

· Identify opportunities to improve retail tools and systems

· Simplify or automate tasks to drive improved business performance

· Manage products from launch to end of life with goal of automating any manual tasks

· May work with tech team to drive process change

The applicable collective agreement for this role is Telecommunication Sector. The position is classified at CBA level 6 or above, depending on the candidate's skills, competences and experience.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree

- Fluency in both English and Italian

- Analytical skills, familiarity with data analysis methodologies and high computer literacy, with ability to learn new systems quickly

- Confidence in communicating both internally and externally

- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration or Economics

- Experience manipulating large bodies of data

- Advanced Excel or basic SQL preferred

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The minimum gross base salary for this position is listed below. The base salary listed corresponds to working on a full-time basis. For part-time hours, the salary will be pro-rated.

Amazon reserves the right to offer a higher salary and/or level, depending on the candidate's skills, competencies, and experience. Amazon's package may include a sign on payment. In addition, the candidate may be eligible to participate in a restricted stock unit scheme operated independently by Amazon.com Inc. in USA.

Your recruiting team will share final salary and any restricted stock unit scheme if applicable, depending on skills and requirements.

In addition to statutory benefits, and those applicable to the relevant CBA, company supplementary benefits may apply subject to further terms.

Milan, ITA - 31,100.00 EUR Annually