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  • Posted: Jun 13, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to pl...
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    Retail Associate Vendor Manager

    Job Description:

    • The Associate Vendor Manager position offers an exciting introduction to our on-line retail business and a broad training ground for future success. This role will work directly with strategic and large vendors to grow their business through various levers including merchandising/marketing, new product launches, pricing, inventory management, and supply chain optimization. The Associate Vendor Manager will also work with multiple internal teams and management as they grow and improve their vendor's success at Amazon. This role will be both strategic and tactical.

    Key job responsibilities
    The Associate Vendor Manager role will be responsible for the following:

    • Acting as the ‘business owner’ for their vendors, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business
    • Owning forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on vendor, along with responsibility for driving strategic supply chain projects and promotions to achieve business objectives
    • Proactively negotiating costs, promotional opportunities, and other business inputs for the vendor — autonomously
    • Conducting pricing and ROI analysis and making recommendations for initiatives that optimize profit margin
    • Managing Purchase Orders and In-Stock analysis for the strategic brands
    • Optimizing the online presence and content of each product on the brand's portfolio
    • Developing and executing marketing plans in order to drive awareness and purchases for the brand
    • Driving cross-category initiatives to improve operational process and deliver results
    • The role offers a unique opportunity to work at the most innovative online retailer and to develop strong functional skills in online merchandising/ marketing, buying, planning and forecasting, pricing, and business analysis. Vendor Specialist roles offer opportunity for greater responsibility and advancement into a variety of roles including Merchandising, Vendor Management and Inventory Management.

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • Bachelor's degree
    • A background (2+ years) in buying, account management, product management, project management, financial analysis and/or marketing
    • Proven negotiating skills, influencing abilities and relationship management experience
    • Experience analysing data to support business decisions

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Supply chain, strategy, brand management or finance background
    • Excellent presentation, organization and account management skills
    • Able to prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
    • Project management skills
    • Ability to drive cross-functional initiatives influencing on competing priorities
    • Experience with business analysis and P&L management

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    Associate Vendor Manager, IES MVR

    Job Description

    • The VM will be responsible for building long term strategic partnerships with vendors, adding relevant selection, managing profitability, optimizing pricing, and scaling vendors within Amazon. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a talented vendor manager who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (Finance, marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
    • Bachelor's degree
    • Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Experience with software and editing tools (including HTML, Excel and SQL)
    • Experience in online retail
    • Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML
       

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    Cloud Support Engineer (Windows), Support Engineering

    Job Description

    • Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
    • Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
    • Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs.
    • Interact with leading engineers around the world.
    • Work directly with Amazon Web Services architects to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
    • Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
    • Drive customer communication during critical events.
    • Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
    • Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
    • Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • Bachelor’s degree in Information Science/Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field OR equivalent experience in a technical position
    • The Windows role supports our services that focus on identity and access management, compliance and auditing, web applications and more.

    BASIC EXPERIENCE/SKILLS To qualify for this role, you should have the following experience:

    • Knowledge/experience in enterprise systems administration in Windows Server and related services (Active Directory, DNS, IIS, MSSQL).
    • Knowledge of Windows troubleshooting tools (WinDbg, Windows Sysinternals, perfmon, WPR/WPA).

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Experience with System Administration with Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and/or Microsoft Windows Server and associated technologies (Active Directory, Exchange).
    • Experience in Networking technologies including DNS, TCP/IP, SSL, DHCP and Load Balancing.
    • Experience with Network troubleshooting tools (telnet, test-netconnection, tracert, tracetcp, iperf, ntttcp, dig, and packet capture tools).
    • Experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP).
    • Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills and experience.
    • Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications.
    • Exposure to Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware, Xen).
    • Good understanding of distributed computing environments.
    • Exposure to security concepts/best practices.
    • Knowledge of storage technologies.
    • Experience with Cloud services and Cloud deployments.

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    Cloud Support Engineer (Enterprise Applications), Support Engineering

    Job Description

    • Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the job while you:
    • Learn and use groundbreaking technologies.
    • Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers' individual needs.
    • Interact with leading engineers around the world.
    • Work directly with Amazon Web Services architects to help reproduce and resolve customer issues.
    • Leverage your extensive customer support experience to provide feedback to internal AWS teams on how to improve our services.
    • Drive customer communication during critical events.
    • Drive projects that improve support-related processes and our customers’ technical support experience.
    • Write tutorials, how-to videos, and other technical articles for the developer community.
    • Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that may span multiple AWS services.

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • Bachelor’s degree in Information Science/Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field OR equivalent experience in a technical position
    • The Windows role supports our services that focus on identity and access management, compliance and auditing, web applications and more.

    BASIC EXPERIENCE/SKILLS To qualify for this role, you should have the following experience:

    • Knowledge/experience in enterprise systems administration in Windows Server and related services (Active Directory, DNS, IIS, MSSQL).
    • Knowledge of Windows troubleshooting tools (WinDbg, Windows Sysinternals, perfmon, WPR/WPA).

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Experience with System Administration with Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) and/or Microsoft Windows Server and associated technologies (Active Directory, Exchange).
    • Experience in Networking technologies including DNS, TCP/IP, SSL, DHCP and Load Balancing.
    • Experience with Network troubleshooting tools (telnet, test-netconnection, tracert, tracetcp, iperf, ntttcp, dig, and packet capture tools).
    • Experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP).
    • Strong analysis and troubleshooting skills and experience.
    • Experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications.
    • Exposure to Virtualization (Hyper-V, VMware, Xen).
    • Good understanding of distributed computing environments.
    • Exposure to security concepts/best practices.
    • Knowledge of storage technologies.
    • Experience with Cloud services and Cloud deployments.

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    Manager, Associate Vendor Managers

    JOB Description

    • Amazon is looking for a Manager of Associate Vendor Managers to lead a team of associate vendor managers. Amazon Vendor Services are a suite of services designed to help Amazon's most strategic vendors grow and deliver the best customer experience by working across all key retail levers (e.g. selection, availability, operational efficiency, catalog quality, and marketing) or any other ad-hoc strategic vendor need. The service is delivered primarily through account managers assigned to specific vendors. As a Manager of Associate Vendor Managers for Amazon Vendor Services, you will be responsible for supporting the development and launch of the service in South Africa. You will also be responsible to deliver impact to a large group of vendors through a team of account managers reporting to you. Your priority will be to deliver on our commitment to help vendors improve their performance across key retail metrics, ensure their satisfaction with the service and continuously improve the productivity of your team. You will work in close collaboration with Vendor Managers and your Associate Vendor Managers to understand your vendors’ needs and define the right goals and targets. You will meet Category Leaders on a regular basis to get guidance and help them with strategic decision making. Finally, you will be expected to contribute to continuous enhancements and innovation within the service. You should be passionate about managing and developing people, resourceful and customer focused. You need to have a proven track record of delivering results in fast-paced and dynamic business environments while managing the needs of different groups of stakeholders.

    Key job responsibilities

    •  Partner with Vendor Managers and key retail category functions to define priorities and operational goals according to vendor needs
    •  Manage a team of Associate Vendor Managers owning the joint business plans for most strategic vendors and deliver significant business impact (you will be accountable for the business results of your team)
    •  Coach and Train Associate Vendor Managers on Amazon mechanisms, processes, tools and business topics. As a manager, you will have to develop the right skill sets within the team and allocate resources to vendors
    •  Support the business by auditing daily business operations and drive the optimization of the business metrics
    • Audit metrics regularly to continually drive quality of vendor and employee experience across multiple sub-categories(vi) Own relevant business areas for your entire category, maximizing category results at scale
    • Work with the Amazon AVS teams in other countries to shape the program through scaling and efficiency initiatives to drive productivity within your team
    •  Drive vendor adoption of Amazon programs
    •  Grow and develop people into a talent pool for Amazon

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • Bachelors degree
    • 7+ years of experience in Retail or a KPI driven business/sales roles
    • Experience leading multi-functional teams and developing people managers, in a fast-paced and data-driven environment
    • Ability to both lead through a team as well as roll up sleeves and directly own work that delivers results
    • Proven problem-solving skills and ability to influence people both internally and externally

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    • Master's degree
    • Previous extended experience in retail, in fashion and consumer goods industries or in consulting (at least 3 years)

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