Vendor Manager Produce, ARIPL
Job Description
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Description
The Vendor Manager - Produce should have experience in analyzing new business opportunities and building strong relationships, driving significant top and bottom-line results, and be comfortable managing multiple responsibilities within a fast-paced environment.This candidate must be highly organized and be able to prioritize effectively. The candidate must also possess strong analytical acumen and be comfortable drawing metric-based conclusions by managing an extensive amount of data.
The successful candidate possesses superb business judgment, with a track record of successful relationship management, and strong analytical acumen, with experience generating and managing reports and analyses. The position requires an individual who can work autonomously in a highly demanding and often ambiguous environment, with strong attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills.
Key job responsibilities
Role
The Vendor Manager is an effective leader and communicator and a seasoned problem-solver. This role provides a key opportunity for those looking to build or round-out general management skill-sets. It is highly cross-functional and needs influencing abilities while collaborating within and outside Amazon. Areas of responsibility include:
- Managing a full P&L for Produce (F&V) business, including planning, forecasting and driving growth for the category, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business, leading produce vendor management for multiple business formats that ARIPL services.
- Setting goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision by closely working with regional vendor Managers / city vendor Managers /Category & In stock managers.
- Driving strategic negotiations with external vendors / building direct farmer sourcing road map / driving FPO & strategic vendor partner relations.
- Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within the category and across the retail business as a whole. Building long range forecasts in collaboration with partner teams.
- Leading cross functional collaboration on necessary systems and processes to support business needs, including retail systems, site merchandising and in-stock.
- Identifying industry trends that are relevant to customer selection and experience.
- Collaborating on Marketing and Merchandising initiatives.
- Innovating and implementing new customer and vendor programs.
- Representing Amazon when meeting with senior executive teams from top vendors and building long term strategic relationships.
- 3+ years of with Excel experience
- 3+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
- Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
- Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development
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