Online Category Manager
2 weeks ago
Job ID: 2623406 | Amazon.com.ca, Inc. - A49
Amazon's Canada team is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, hard-working, analytical and creative candidate to join our Hardlines team. You will work directly with a portfolio of strategic vendor partners to develop their business, acting as a liaison and executing a joint business plan.
The team operates across several hub cities including Seattle, Arlington, and Toronto. This role has the flexibility to align to any of these hubs.
Note that 3+ years of experience at a leading strategy consulting firm are required for this role.
The Vendor Manger position offers an exciting introduction to our online retail business and a broad training ground for future success. This role will work directly with a strategic vendor to grow their business and optimize their supply chain while working with multiple internal teams and management. The Vendor Manager will develop skills and work across all three functional areas (In-stock, Vendor Management, and Site Merchandising) to grow and improve their vendor's success at Amazon. The Brand Specialist role will be responsible for the following:
· Acting as the business owner for his or her vendor in their respective categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business.
· Owning forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on the vendor, along with responsibility for driving strategic supply chain projects and promotions to achieve business objectives.
· Proactively negotiating costs, promotional opportunities, and other business inputs for the vendor.
· Conducting pricing and ROI analysis and making recommendations for initiatives that optimize profit margin.
· Managing Purchase Orders and In-Stock analysis for the strategic brands.
· Optimizing the online presence and content of each product on the brand's portfolio.
· Developing and executing marketing plans to drive awareness and purchases for the brand.
· Driving cross-category initiatives to improve the operational process and deliver results.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Toronto, ON, CAN BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of Excel and extracting data through varied reporting tools in order to drive and influence business decisions
- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
- Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development
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