Associate Vendor Manager, Amazon Canada

About the role

The Amazon Canada's Hardlines team is seeking a self-driven Associate Vendor Manager to support our Vendor Management team and our vendor partners. You'll work with strategic vendors to drive business growth, analyze data to identify key brands, build long-term relationships, resolve operational and business issues, and lead negotiations on Amazon's behalf. You'll play a critical role in managing strategic and established brands to drive profitability and topline performance (P&L) for your category/brands. We're looking for someone with deep curiosity about how things work and a passion for creating a world-class shopping experience for our customers. The candidate will use customer obsession and analytics to inform creative solutions to drive their business. The Vendor Manager will have the opportunity to engage with multiple internal teams to optimize product line performance for key vendors on Amazon.ca. They will utilize strong communication skills to collaborate with internal cross-functional partners, such as site merchandising, buying, pricing, inventory management, operations, online marketing, and finance to drive performance for their business.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage P&L with a long-term perspective, developing data-driven plans to sustainably improve revenue and margins while balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.
• Conduct thorough analysis of key inputs and their downstream effects on pricing, selection, and convenience, using data to inform decisions and identify areas for improvement.
• Cultivate strategic vendor relationships through transparent negotiations and collaborative growth initiatives.
• Continuously innovate to enhance the customer experience, driving broad adoption by simplifying processes and removing friction points.
• Manage project execution with a bias for action, creating detailed project plans and holding teams accountable for high-quality, timely deliverables.
• Drive cross-functional commitments from Marketing, Engineering, and Category Management teams, fostering open dialogue and aligning on shared goals.

A day in the life

As a Vendor Manager, your typical day involves cultivating vendor relationships to drive long-term business growth, negotiating contracts and developing Joint Business Plans with vendors, analyzing category metrics to prepare for weekly business reviews, collaborating with vendors and internal teams to expand product selection, finalizing promotional plans for upcoming events, working with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new product features, identifying and executing strategies to improve sales and margins, and creating and refining customer experiences to maintain best-in-class standards.

Basic qualifications

• 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with software and editing tools (including HTML, Excel and SQL)
• Experience in online retail
• Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML
• Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.
• Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Pay

Base salary range: USA, WA, Seattle - 80,200.00 - 94,000.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

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