Sr Vendor Manager Grocery, EU Grocery

Come build the future with us!

With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. This is your chance to make history.

The Retail team is looking for a talented, smart, experienced and entrepreneurial Senior Vendor Manager for our Grocery category, to help us build an exceptional and authoritative destination.

Joining the Amazon Retail team means partnering with a dynamic and creative group who set a high bar for innovation and success in a fast-paced and changing environment. The Senior Vendor Manager will be primarily responsible for negotiating direct relationships with key brands, negotiating competitive business terms, driving product and brand selection.

We expect the Senior Vendor Manager to be a passionate customer and category advocate within Amazon, with proven ability to negotiate complex business terms, develop and manage relationships, drive results and demonstrate competency with business and financial analytics. The Senior Vendor Manager must be an effective leader and communicator in working with some of Amazon’s most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with a passion for retail, a high level of flexibility and commitment.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business or a related field
- Experience managing a budget or P&L
- Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development
- Experience in retail, project management, supply chain, inventory management, sourcing, finance and/or consulting
- Experience with high-level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management
- Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal
- For this position, we expect:
- - Demonstrated data-driven decision making or quantitative analysis skills

Preferred qualifications

- Experience leading cross-functional projects and managing large, complicated programs
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience in cost/benefit analysis of project proposals
- Experience managing multiple competing priorities simultaneously and driving goals to completion
- Experience in written and spoken English and an ability to compose grammatically correct, concise and accurate written responses
- Further qualifications would be a plus:

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