Senior Vendor Manager, Home & Lifestyle

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

As a Senior Vendor Manager within the Home & Lifestyle business, you'll shape
the future of your category while driving business growth and delivering
exceptional vendor and customer experiences. Owning the P&L for a major
category, you'll be responsible for topline growth, profitability, customer
experience, and managing key vendor relationships. This dynamic role requires
you to develop and execute strategic plans that expand product selection, drive
operational excellence, and improve vendor terms, all while driving improvements
for our customers.

Your analytical skills will be critical as you dive deep into business
performance metrics and industry trends. You'll lead long-term Joint Business
Planning, own complex negotiations, and identify growth opportunities while
finding creative ways to reduce costs. A key aspect of your role will be
defining and prioritizing meaningful ways to delight our customers, contributing
to the development of new programs and features that improve both the shopping
and selling experience on our platform.

Collaboration is essential in this position, as you'll partner with
cross-functional teams including Supply Chain, Finance, Advertising, Marketing,
and Customer Success to drive initiatives spanning the entire business. Your
leadership will extend to mentoring and developing team members, fostering a
culture of high performance and innovation. As a strategic thinker, you'll
translate data into actionable insights, make high-impact decisions, and ensure
we're well-positioned to meet customer needs throughout the year, especially
during peak seasons.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• 4+ years of with Excel experience
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management

Nice To Haves

• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and business strategy for the category and KPIs for measuring results
• Manage category P&L and develop plans that drive long term revenue and margin improvements for the business
• Develop vendor relationships inclusive of terms negotiations and growth focused initiatives
• Identify process improvements, drive broad adoption, and provide an unparalleled customer experience
• Devise clear frameworks for making day-to-day decisions
• Lead execution of projects including building project plans
• Drive commitments from internal teams including Marketing, Advertising, and Category Management
• Dive deep into inputs and understand the downstream impact of changes to pricing, selection, and convenience.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level