Recent Openings at Amazon

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with senior stakeholders to build and execute the program, and future roadmaps to achieve business goals.
• Identify the gaps and pain points in the existing processes and come up with solutions short and long term
• Partner with teams to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones, and drive delivery.
• Set up performance management and compliance mechanisms and track performance on a day to day basis;
• Write reports/documents that detail the progress to leadership on a frequent basis
• Operate autonomously; drive forecasts, and handle escalations

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology experience
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
• Experience with end to end product delivery
• Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product
• Experience as a product manager or owner
• Experience owning technology products
• Bachelor's degree

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in influencing senior leadership through data driven insights
• Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
• Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

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Key job responsibilities

• The Associate Vendor Manager – Retail 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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Key job responsibilities

• The SVM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, 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 leader 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 (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).
• The position requires a leader 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 (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience

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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Key job responsibilities

• Coordinate campaigns across channels and products to support teams in creating and executing innovative advertising and brand campaigns to achieve brand goals.
• Based on the identified strategic approach, partner with cross-functional teams to drive the appropriate channel marketing mix with supporting campaigns, including advertising, social creative, and promotions.
• Manage external & internal agencies and creative partners.
• Create and write the appropriate campaign briefs, drive creative development, and own all aspects of the process including cost negotiations, schedule management, approvals, research and analysis.
• Partner with creative and media teams to develop and execute results-oriented campaigns that include traditional advertising channels (TV, print, OOH, digital), with a secondary focus on supporting select onsite and social creative needs.
• Work with advertising measurement tools and partner with research team to continually improve upon analytical success metrics related to advertising performance.
• Understand business, marketing, and legal constraints and opportunities to drive growth.
• Proactively plan to address new segment opportunities and react to unforeseen challenges.
• Drive development and execution of specific tactics and activities with cross-functional teams.
• Analyse the results of launched initiatives and drive improvements through scalable, efficient new processes to optimize our resources.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience
• 7+ years of developing and managing acquisition marketing or channel programs experience
• Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
• Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
• Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs
• Experience developing and executing campaigns across a multitude of timezones and languages

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience driving direction and alignment with large cross-functional teams and agency partners
• Experience designing and executing joint marketing plans with strategic alliance partners with global footprint

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Key job responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to build and execute initiatives and roadmaps to achieve business goals. This includes both shortand long-term horizons.
• Partner with teams to secure resources, scope efforts, set project priorities and milestones, and drive delivery.
• Gather and analyse data to uncover opportunities to drive Amazon growth and improvements
• Identify the gaps and pain points in the existing processes and drive improvements.
• Connect with key stakeholders regularly to review metrics and setup processes to ensure goals are met.
• Track performance management mechanisms and seller performance on a day to day basis.
• Write reports/documents that detail the progress to leadership on a frequent basis.
• Deep dive on issues and come up with solutions, creating solutions from scratch for short and long term.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree
• Program or project management experience
• Excel knowledge
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Experience defining and implementing process improvement initiatives

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Process improvements experience
• SQL Knowledge

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Key job responsibilities

• Build your own pipeline of opportunities, identifying high sales potential Selling Partners
• Manage numerous business opportunities concurrently
• Develop long-term relationships with sellers, support them in the integration of their offers and develop ambitious goals for future growth prospects.
• Achieve business and financial objectives and drive the growth of Amazon’s third-party business in selected categories
• Identify opportunities to improve the business for all sellers through scalable solutions and manage the roll-out of these solutions
• Conduct deep dives to understand root causes of seller performance and actions to accelerate growth
• Work closely with teams to identify growth opportunities
• Identify and manage projects to improve customer and seller experience, working closely with internal and external teams

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• Experience in prospecting, qualifying, and being the first point of contact with prospective partners
• Experience with sales and stakeholder management
• Basic Microsoft Excel skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience within e-commerce or Retail fields
• Analytical and strategic skills including advanced Microsoft Excel
• Creative, has initiative, and can constructively advocate on behalf of the customer