Manager of Vendor Managers, Beauty, Consumables

Passionate about fashion? Interested in working in one of the fastest-growing and most innovative business units at Amazon? The Amazon Mexico Retail team is seeking an experienced, data-driven Manager of Vendor Managers (MVM) to help us lead the Beauty categories.

The ideal candidate is a passionate customer and category manager, with proven analytical capabilities, attention to detail, ability to effectively prioritize, and lead a team. The MVM must be an effective negotiator, leader, and communicator working with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams as well as vendors and brands.The MVM must be a self-starter with a passion for retail, a high level of flexibility, and result-oriented.

This role leads a high-performing team and will be responsible for driving both the top and bottom-line metrics for some of Beauty categories. The MVM will use a wide range of skills and work across major functional areas such as inventory management, marketing, merchandising, pricing, operations, and finance to drive the performance of these strategic category and vendor partners.

Key job responsibilities
- Setting goals, developing strategy, and ensuring alignment with broader business objectives
- Negotiating direct relationships with top apparel brands to expand our product selection
- Onboarding new vendors and brands to drive category growth
- Partnering cross-functionally to deliver an exceptional customer experience that drives sales and profitability
- Leading a high-performing team of vendor managers to achieve ambitious top and bottom-line goals

A day in the life
The MVM owns sales growth as well as profitability improvement. To achieve that, MVM works with internal teams including Finance, Supply Chain, and Marketing to drive the category strategy.
The MVM audits the inputs such as selection, price, inventory, traffic, customer experience, to find opportunities and lead the Vendor Management and Brand Specialist team to address such opportunities.
The MVM reports performance of the category through the use of data, and sets the strategic roadmap for growth.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years of team management experience
- 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience with vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion or inventory management
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- Experience at a senior level in the fashion industry ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management or consulting role

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience using data to influence business decisions
- Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams

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