Vendor Manager
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18-09-2024
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Job Description
- Job Description
We are looking for an experienced and entrepreneurial Vendor Manager to help grow our Direct Import business introducing global brands to the Egyptian Market Segment while creating a best-in-class experience for Retail Categories.
Responsibilities include managing the full scope of the category and vendor portfolio, building and sustaining strategic relationships with key global manufacturers and suppliers, improving the end-to-end 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 & negotiation capabilities and project management skills, strong attention to detail, the ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task, and a proven record of driving category growth.
The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a passion for retail, a high level of flexibility and commitment, and the ability to hire and develop a high-performing 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 deep-dive analysis of product line metrics
Provides recommendation on business opportunities and long-term strategy for multiple sub-categories
Vendor 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 bottom-line category growth
Builds long-term relationships by creating value, opportunities for growth, customer acquisition, and brand-building for multiple vendors
Increases vendor participation through deep knowledge of program opportunities
In-Stock Management
Manage inventory availability and inventory health including: improved in-stock, 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 long-term category solutions that automate or simplify category processes
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree. 7+ years of relevant experience in retail operations with a proven record of accomplishment of negotiations and delivering results.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional projects
- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development.
- Influencing abilities and vendor management experience.
- Very strong analytical skills.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced experience with Excel, or other analytical/Business Intelligence tools.
- Highly polished communication skills - speaking, writing, presenting and negotiating.
- Ability to operate simultaneously and effectively in both tactical and strategic modes.
- A willingness to roll up sleeves to get things done.
- Experience launching a new country.
- Working in a start-up or early stage environment where you will be defining best practice for your function.
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