Principal Vendor Manager, Household Essentials

Principal Vendor Manager

At Amazon we strive to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. If you would like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance.

We are looking for a leader with proven negotiation and business management skills to identify and lead initiatives with our highest impact selling partners. The Principal Vendor Manager is responsible for the P&L and identifying, creating, and driving innovative solutions and programs that lead to improvements in the way we manage our business. Working closely with selling partner leadership, cross-org partners, technology teams, and program specialists, this position will leverage negotiations, business development, and product / program management skills to merge Amazon systems and innovations with business requirements and operational constraints, resulting in a fully optimized customer experience in the Amazon store.

This highly visible role requires a candidate with the proven leadership ability to facilitate and guide joint business planning and application of process improvements with impeccable quality levels in a broad organization. They must exercise considerable judgement, drive strategy and tactical execution, utilize written / verbal communication at a senior executive level, and evangelize / teach.

Key job responsibilities :

• Drive the creation of productivity and quality initiatives specific to the needs of the business to meet and exceed business plans.
• Lead the Joint Business Plan Strategy and execution with internal and external senior leadership.
• Build new business management mechanisms.
• Guide teams in their ability to develop and execute daily, weekly & monthly action plans that increase our service.
• Work closely with others in building support and resources for projects and initiatives.
• Establish a partnership with business leaders across Amazon business and product units.
• Provide leadership direction on project selection, scope, definition, and performance to ensure alignment with business strategy.