Senior Vendor Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Amazon Commercial Services (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Full time
Amazon is hiring a Senior Vendor Manager (SVM) to improve the experience for our customers in Africa.

This role will work across various internal and external teams to evaluate the customer landscapes, and invent innovative approaches to solve ambiguous problems.

If you are looking for an entrepreneurial role within a fast-paced, ambiguous and collaborative environment please reach out for more info then this is the position for you.

Key job responsibilities

The SVM 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.

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).
The 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).

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cape Town, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Supply chain, strategy, brand management or finance background
  • Excellent presentation, organization and account management skills
  • Able to prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities in a fastpaced environment
  • Project management skills
  • Ability to drive crossfunctional initiatives influencing on competing priorities
  • Experience with business analysis and P&L management
Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas.

In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa.

Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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