Vendor Manager Rvr , Retail Vendor Recruitment

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Clichy, France · Buying, Planning, & Instock Management

Vendor Manager for Amazon Fashion & Sports in Europe, focused on recruiting and onboarding desired brands to drive scaled growth and improve customer experience. Requires strong business development, analytical, vendor management, and negotiation skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. Your objective is to build best-in-class EU selection by identifying, prospecting, and launching high-potential new vendors on Amazon through strategic partnerships. You'll lead the full acquisition cycle—cold-calling prospects, attending trade fairs, confidently presenting Amazon's partnership value proposition, assessing vendor potential through market analysis, and negotiating favorable commercial terms including pricing, costs, and promotional investments to drive growth and competitive advantage
  2. Be a business consultant to new vendors: you will help with the entire recruitment cycle of new vendors from your pipeline, able to work autonomously. Help new vendors to integrate their catalogue data into Amazon platform, master Amazon’s internal tools, and train vendors on how to use these tools.
  3. Grow the vendor’s full product selection on Amazon to ensure ideal customer experience. Support in optimizing the online presence and content of each product on the vendor's portfolio. Plan, conduct, deliver and report analyses to understand the performance of new vendors
  4. Own projects and drive results on the projects working with cross functional stakeholders. Recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experience

Skills

Required

  • Excellent written and oral presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional internal and external audiences
  • Ability to work with a wide range of people at all decision-making levels, including C-suite

Nice to have

  • Experience in Retail business management or consulting, including negotiations
  • Demonstrated track record of success in meeting and exceeding business and/or financial KPI
  • Experience with large data sets and insight generation using Excel, SQL, or other data analysis tools
  • Experience using CRM tools such as Salesforce to track sales cycle activities
  • Knowledge of additional EU languages is Plus especially German, French, Spanish or Italian

What the JD emphasized

  • Recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experience