Jobs at Amazon

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• Amazon is hiring a Senior Vendor Manager (SVM) to improve the experience for our customers in Africa. This role will work across various internal and external teams to evaluate the customer landscapes, and invent innovative approaches to solve ambiguous problems. If you are looking for an entrepreneurial role within a fast-paced, ambiguous and collaborative environment please reach out for more info then this is the position for you.

Key job responsibilities

• The VM will be responsible for setting strategy for driving growth, 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).

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Cape Town, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, or any related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management or consulting environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or Master’s in Finance, Engineering or related fields.
• Cross functional experience, especially finance, marketing or supply chain.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and database work, with experience in SQL as a plus.
• Track record of delivering results and an ability to operate both strategically and tactically in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
• Experience of managing and developing a high-performance team.
• Passionate self-starter, decisive and able to move with speed to implement ideas.
• A business focused way of thinking and a strong hands-on, results-driven mentality.

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• The team defines and leads Project Kuiper's regulatory agenda. We operate worldwide, engaging with the ITU, regional regulatory organizations and national regulatory authorities. We enable and protect the use of spectrum and coordinate its use with other operators. We are responsible for gaining country access and for the licensing of facilities and services. We collaborate with associations, government agencies, multilateral organizations, and others on rules and regulations that are in the best interest of customers. We collaborate with technical, operations, public policy, business and public relations teams to optimize the customer's experience and enhance Kuiper's overall regulatory strategy.

Key job responsibilities

• Work with engineering, business, legal, and public policy professionals to execute the licensing strategy in countries throughout the EMEA region.
• Identify and support business opportunities, and will work in close collaboration with the Lead, Licensing & Regulatory Affairs to align the licensing strategy with service availability and business priorities.
• Manage complex regulatory projects dealing with satellite and spectrum regulations, communications services, and other issues involved with deploying a global satellite broadband constellation.
• Have experience obtaining licenses for satellite systems, to include earth stations, user terminal equipment, spectrum, and the provision of services, and be familiar with regulatory agencies and frameworks in countries throughout the EMEA region.
• Familiarity with regulatory agencies and frameworks in countries in the EMEA region, and be able to assess and, if necessary, improve regulatory frameworks in order to optimize Kuiper services to customers.
• Engage cross-functionally with other professionals to define a licensing and policy direction that aligns with Kuiper objectives, and collaborate to advance objectives for the ITU World Radiocommunications Conferences at the national and regional levels.

About the team

• This position will report to the Head of Global Licensing and work in close collaboration with the leads for Domestic Regulatory Affairs and International Regulatory.
• We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Waterfall City, ZAF

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other relevant discipline (e.g., communications).
• 5+ years of related spectrum management experience, securing licenses for the provision of telecommunications services and ensuring regulatory compliance at an international level.
• Experience in the application of the ITU Radio Regulations and participation in WRC preparations, to include experience with regional telecommunications organizations.
• General knowledge of satellite communications systems and services and regulatory framework.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working with high-level government officials and collaborating with technical and non-technical teams.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to task and interpret analyses required to support licensing.
• A self-starter who can take general direction and produce specific results.
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills.