Vendor Manager, IES MVR

4 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa Amazon Commercial Services (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Full time

- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
- Knowledge of Excel and extracting data through varied reporting tools in order to drive and influence business decisions

Amazon is hiring a Vendor Manager (VM), VSP 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. Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you

Key job responsibilities
The VM will be responsible for building long term strategic partnerships with vendors, adding relevant selection, managing profitability, optimizing pricing, and scaling vendors within Amazon. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including 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 talented vendor manager 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 (Finance, marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

Key job responsibilities
The Vendor Manager (VM), VSP will be responsible for building long term strategic partnerships with vendors, adding relevant selection, managing profitability, optimizing pricing, and scaling vendors within Amazon. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including 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 talented vendor manager 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 (Finance, marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

- Cross functional experience, especially finance, marketing or supply chain.
- Track record of delivering results and an ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.
- Problem solving and analytical skills.
- Decisive and able to move with speed to implement ideas.

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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