Vendor Manager, Emerging Fashion

About the role

Fashion and Fitness (F2) is looking for a passionate, driven, self-starter to join the Emerging Fashion Brands team. The Vendor Manager (VM) is a P&L owner and hands-on operator working with some of the world's greatest new-to-Amazon brands. This role will collaborate closely with brand leadership to create and execute go-to-market strategies that accelerate growth on Amazon. You will also work cross-functionally every day with supply chain, finance, advertising, and other teams to ensure these businesses are positioned for sustainable success. This is a highly ambiguous space, and successful candidates should have a proven track record of pulling data through SQL, using industry research to create opportunity-size analyses, and communicating through strategy documents to influence central team roadmaps and prioritization. You will be the face of emerging fashion, owning end-to-end program strategy in addition to brand management.

Responsibilities

• Act as the business owner, possessing a complete understanding (including strategic context) of internal and external variables that impact your business. This includes owning forecasting, monitoring, understanding, and reporting on the business, as well as driving projects and promotions to achieve business objectives.
• Understand customer needs, both existing and potential, and use that knowledge to advocate for and drive delivery of site features that provide Amazon customers with an unparalleled shopping experience.
• Manage vendor relationships, including negotiations and strategic planning.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and communicate with internal and external stakeholders while meeting tight deadlines.
• Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability targets.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with Excel.
• 3+ years of experience in retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting, with a focus on negotiations and delivering results.
• Bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing them to drive performance and process improvements.
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development.
• 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.

Pay

USA, NY, New York - $80,600.00 - $141,100.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - $82,700.00 - $128,300.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.