Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon.co.za is coming to South Africa in 2024! It is an exciting time to be part of a team that will continue to innovate to bring value, convenience, and delight to our customers around the world, and now to South Africa.

Amazon is hiring a Senior Vendor Manager (SVM) to improve the experience for our customers in Africa. This role will work across various internal and external teams to evaluate the customer landscapes, and invent innovative approaches to solve ambiguous problems. If you are looking for an entrepreneurial role within a fast-paced, ambiguous and collaborative environment please reach out for more info then this is the position for you.

Key job responsibilities
The VM will be responsible for setting strategy for driving growth, building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers.

The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cape Town, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or any related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management or consulting environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- MBA or Master's in Finance, Engineering or related fields.
- Cross functional experience, especially finance, marketing or supply chain.
- Excellent knowledge of Excel and database work, with experience in SQL as a plus.
- Track record of delivering results and an ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
- Experience of managing and developing a high-performance team.
- Passionate self-starter, decisive and able to move with speed to implement ideas.
- A business focused way of thinking and a strong hands-on, results-driven mentality.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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