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Do you want to be part of Amazon's founding business and work with the world's most influential publishers? Come join the team that started it all! The Books team is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric self-starter and team player to help grow our digital and print books business. This Vendor Manager will manage strategic relationships with publishers and help define the content strategy and execution for business initiatives and products in the US and other marketplaces around the world. The ideal candidate has solid business judgment and an analytical mind with a track record of successful negotiations, strong relationship management, and success with launching new business models, initiatives, and products. This person uses complex analytics to guide decision-making, is able to dive deep into data and think creatively about new opportunities.
Key job responsibilities
Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate, and manage strategic partnership deals that delight customers and support strategic objectives
Serve as a key member of the Content Acquisition team in defining and delivering the strategy around content acquisition, new business models, promotional programs, and growing readership around the world
Develop business and product requirements, prioritize needs, and manage milestones with input from key stakeholders
Establish and execute against selection, operational, and business metrics
Deliver results by working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. product management, legal, marketing, and other Content Acquisition teams around the world)
Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management of Amazon and publishers
Identify opportunities for innovation and automation
Leverage data analysis to research difficult or ambiguous problems, leading cross-disciplinary teams to drive recommendations to senior leadership
Develop and execute against P&L while understanding business trends that impact the bottom line
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or above
- 3+ years of work experience
- Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)
- Experience delivering cross-functional projects and working with partner teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Experience using data and trends to articulate business needs or equivalent
- Experience negotiating complex deals with customers and partners or equivalent
- Experience working with, presenting to and influencing senior executives up to VP level
- Experience in a content acquisition or business development department of a media company
- Experience using strong customer service, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Experience with MS Office, in particular MS Excel
- Consulting, finance, banking or prior experience in a problem-solving or analytical role preferred
- Knowledge of or experience in publishing or other media industries a plus
- 1+ years of negotiation and third party relationship management experience
- Experience in working with AI tools
- Clear passion for books, authors and readers
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 82,700.00 - 139,500.00 USD annually