Retail Vendor Manager I, Consumables

Amazon South Africa team is looking for a data driven, customer-obsessed, hands on and creative candidate to join our team. As a Vendor Manager, you'll own selected brands to help drive growth and help deliver a best-in-class customer experience on Amazon.za

You’ll be responsible for looking after categories and brands´ product portfolio, contributing to improvements in the user experience for customers and creating detailed monthly reports on performance. You’ll lead presentations and planning sessions with vendors and act as the main point of contact for them.

You will also provide support to drive growth through detailed analysis of business inefficiencies and identifying solutions; proposing changes to operational processes; driving a high standard in customer satisfaction; ensuring high-quality product detail pages; and making recommendations for effective marketing campaigns.

To achieve success in this role, you will have strong analytical skills as well as relationship management and organizational skills. You will also be comfortable picking up new technologies and skills quickly. You'll be a problem solver, identifying issues or opportunity areas to then create plans to find resolutions. You'll have strong communication skills and a proven track record of building positive working relationships.



Key job responsibilities
As a Vendor Manager, you will be fully involved in all business functions of your brands, including onsite marketing, vendor relation management and in-stock management. Some of the tasks associated with these functions include:
· Vendor management: help growing selection of products to sell on Amazon, onboarding new vendors, identifying and resolving pricing issues
· In-stock management: tracking purchase orders, investigating late deliveries, resolving order rejections, working with vendors on PO automation.
· Online marketing: improving product page data, developing marketing and merchandising plans, improving customer experience onsite, helping generating traffic and sales

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools
- Experience in FMCG or e-commerce industries

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML

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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