Vendor Manager with Italian Language

Amazon, one of the world’s leaders in e-commerce, is expanding its Retail business and looking for a smart and ambitious Vendor Manager (m/f) based in Bratislava to facilitate new partnerships with vendors aiming at integrating their product portfolio into Amazon European websites. Come and experience a company that reinvents itself every day and immerse yourself in an environment that is fast-paced, expanding and continuously inventing new efficiencies to offer great opportunities for our customers and for you!

Operating in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment you will need to engage in projects that will drive business growth and help shape the future of Amazon Retail in EU. We expect that you can work autonomously, think both strategically and tactically, and take full control and responsibility for achieving your goals.

What is the role?

Your objectives will be to help building the best possible selection for our customers with the development of partnerships with new vendors. Your job will consist of prospecting, assessing, reaching out to and integrating both potential local and international vendors for Amazon. In your day-to-day job, you will be faced with numerous challenges such as:

Identify, prospect and reach out to new vendors, analyze their potential for Amazon. You will lead first steps, by cold-calling potential partners or attending commercial events and trade fairs, and confidently explaining advantages and benefits of partnering with Amazon
Be a business consultant to new vendors and provide insights and advice for them, being able to deal with different business profiles and sectors
Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon platform, master Amazon’s internal tools and systems so that they can be self-sufficient and integrate their products to Amazon’s platform efficiently and to the standard required
Be the point of contact of vendors : you will help the entire recruitment cycle of new vendors from your pipeline, able to work autonomously
Plan, conduct, deliver and report analyses to understand the performance of new vendors
Help to develop and improve recruiting and on-boarding processes, assist in removing any process related and technical blockers and identifying technical improvement areas

For this position we expect:

Bachelor or Masters degree in business administration or economics
Experience and demonstrated track record of success in sales or negotiation on top of experience in account management or management consulting roles
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain complex concepts in a simple manner
Fluent in English and Italian
Interested in new technologies, capable internet user
Great team player
Advanced computer skills (Excel, Word, Outlook)
Experience solving analytical problems, either in professional experience (data analysis) or education