The Vendor Specialist position offers an exciting introduction to our on-line retail business and a broad training ground for future success. This role will work directly with strategic and large vendors to grow their business through various levers including merchandising/marketing, new product launches, pricing, inventory management, and supply chain optimization. The Vendor Specialist will also work with multiple internal teams and management as they grow and improve their vendor's success at Amazon. This role will be both strategic and tactical.


Key job responsibilities

The Vendor Manager Associate role will be responsible for the following:


Acting as the ‘business owner’ for their vendors, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business
Owning forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on 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 — autonomously
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 in order to drive awareness and purchases for the brand
Driving cross-category initiatives to improve operational process and deliver results
The role offers a unique opportunity to work at the most innovative online retailer and to develop strong functional skills in online merchandising/ marketing, buying, planning and forecasting, pricing, and business analysis. Vendor Specialist roles offer opportunity for greater responsibility and advancement into a variety of roles including Merchandising, Vendor Management and Inventory Management.


BASIC QUALIFICATIONS


1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS


Experience in process improvement
Experience managing large amounts of data