Vendor Mngr.

For this position we expect:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree within Business administration, Commerce or a similar field, or equivalent experience
- First Vendor Management and buyer experience, ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management, sales or consulting environment or in similar customer facing roles
- Hands-on mentality: You should not be afraid to pick up the phone and call a prospect or potential partner
- Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English and German

Job summary

Come build the future with us

Amazon, one of the world’s leaders in e-commerce, is expanding its Retail business and looking for a smart and dedicated New Vendor Manager (M/F/d) Consumables based in Munich to facilitate new partnerships with vendors in Germany aiming at integrating their product portfolio into Amazon European websites. Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you

Operating in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment you will need to engage in projects that will drive business growth and help shape the future of Amazon Retail in EU. We expect that you can work autonomously, think both strategically and tactically, and take full control and responsibility for achieving your goals.

What is the role?

Your objectives will be to help building the best possible selection for our customers with the development of partnerships with new vendors in Germany. Your job will consist of prospecting, assessing, reaching out to and integrating both potential local and international vendors for Amazon. In your day-to-day job, you will be faced with numerous challenges such as:

- Identify, prospect and reach out to new vendors, analyze their potential for Amazon. You will lead first steps, by cold-calling potential partners and confidently explaining advantages and benefits of partnering with Amazon
- Be a business consultant to new vendors and provide insights and advice for them, being able to deal with different business profiles and sectors. Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon platform, master Amazon’s internal tools and train vendors on how to use these tools.
- Own strategic hold-out vendors or complex new vendors to increase selection.
- Show bias for action and resourcefulness to engage with high potential vendors who are hard to contact.
- Continually raise the bar when on-boarding vendors - focusing on those with highest potential and maximum customer impact.
- Pro-actively identify solutions and projects that help scale the New-vendor business.

Further qualification would be a plus:

- Knowledge in MS Office programs as Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
- Analytical skills
- Planning, prioritization and time-management skills
- Strong attention to detail

Did you know that Amazon is offering various jobs in part-time? If you want to apply, please filter for “part-time” in the job type search section on amazon.jobs.

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