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We are seeking a self-starter who can quickly familiarize themselves with this fast-paced environment build relationships/trust with cross-functional teams and assume ownership within the program which will require understanding of complex business/Tech/Ops processes at Amazon and our partners and devising an optimal engagement model. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. High judgment analytical talent and good document writing skills with concise communication are essential to success in this role.\nIn this role You will influence internal and external stakeholders and leadership to buy in to your strategic direction build a buying and sourcing strategy for a new category while ensuring flawless execution and continuously analyzing key metrics to drive improvements for your business.\nThe VM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors adding selection managing category profitability optimizing pricing and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development analytical horsepower excellent business judgment strong vendor management and negotiations skills deep curiosity about how things work and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced highly demanding and ambiguous environment. \nThe successful candidate would possess great business judgment with a track record of strong project delivery commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing marketplace legal supply chain operations among others). \nThe position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment with a track record of strong project delivery commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing marketplace legal supply chain operations among others).\nKey job responsibilities\nThis is an external facing role with close collaboration with external vendors to build seasonal selection and long shelf-life Fresh/Frozen space. The role has potential to build Amazon Now Retail business from scratch define SOP for scaling the business on long term. \nSupport Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities\nNegotiations- Build strategic partnership align and close end to end vendor relationship and terms of trade operating model contracts from long shelf-life Fresh & Frozen vendors (F&V Dairy Poultry Ice-cream etc.) \nBuild the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store-front \nIdentify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection profitability Pricing Availability\nPost launches Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor Ops Advertising)\nDefine selection assortment continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage & improve CX\nSource deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers\nNegotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events. \nPrepare Pitch & close Annual JBP. \nA day in the life\nThis is a startup role which requires dealing with high level of ambiguity\n- 5 years of retail operations product or program management or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience\n- Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership\n- Experience influencing C-level executives\n- FMCG / Grocery / Import / Topical events sourcing Vendor management and retail experience is a must\n- Strong negotiation skills\n- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements\n- Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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