Associate Vendor Manager, Amazon Vendor Services

You are degree qualified, with strong data analysis, oral and written communication skills. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and pride yourself on your flexible, detail-oriented, analytical mind set. You operate well with a high degree of autonomy. Strong analytical and data skills are essential to succeed in this role.

Job summary

Start your career with Amazon's Australia Retail team. Located in Sydney, the Amazon Consumer Electronics team is looking for a data driven, customer obsessed, results orientated Associate Vendor Manager to join our fast growing team. As an Associate Vendor Manager, you will partner with one of our top vendors to maximize their potential on Amazon and make a major impact on our customers' experience. You will be responsible for owning the strategic planning, execution and reporting for one of our key strategic vendors. You will work with In-stock, Finance, Operations, Marketing and wider Amazon teams to drive the best possible outcomes for this strategic vendor and customers. You'll lead planning and performance sessions, and act as the main point of contact at Amazon. You will provide detailed analysis of business opportunities, profitability and inefficiencies; proposing changes to operational processes; driving a high standard in customer satisfaction; and making recommendations for effective growth plans. To achieve success in this role, you will have a huge appetite for learning and the ability to pick up new skills quickly. You will also have strong analytical, relationship management and organisational skills. You'll be solution-focused, identifying problem areas and then creating plans to find resolutions. You'll have strong communication skills and a proven track record of building positive working relationships. You will have to be very comfortable delivering results in an ambiguous environment, being exceptionally detail orientated while looking around corners and thinking bigger about how we create a compelling customer offer. You will also use a wide range of skills working across major functional areas:

- Vendor management: growing selection of products available to Amazon customers, P&L/profitability management, identifying and resolving vendor-related issues
- In-stock management: inventory planning and sales forecasting, tracking purchase orders through to delivery, managing inventory sell-through, working with vendors on PO automationIn the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.Our retail team operates out of our fabulous CBD office (conveniently located near many transportation options), and from home (during COVID-19) leveraging technology.

Amazon offers employees in the retail team a competitive remuneration package, including participation in the company stock plan as applicable. We also look after our people with benefits, such as subsidized private health insurance, superannuation and paid parental leave options, amongst others.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience (Buying &/or Supply Chain)
- Proven analytical thinking, project management skills and attention to detail
- Track record of successful relationship management
- Ability to communicate efficiently both internally and externally
- Ability to learn new systems and tools quickly
- Tenacity to develop ideas independently
- Experience working in data & analytics (Excel, SQL, Tableau)