Assistant Category Manager, Amazon Now
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About the Role
Amazon is seeking an Assistant Category Manager for the MENA Grocery team to build new business from scratch. The role involves vendor management, category profitability, pricing optimization, and cross-functional collaboration.
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Responsibilities
- Support Category leaders to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities.
- Negotiate and build strategic partnerships, align and close vendor relationships and terms of trade.
- Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement.
- Identify automation opportunities to improve key input metrics such as selection, profitability, pricing, availability.
- Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom line targets and drive projects to improve profitability.
- Define selection assortment and refine mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage and improve customer experience.
- Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure value to Prime customers.
- Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility.
- Prepare, pitch and close Annual JBP.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools
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Description
- Interested in working on an innovative and high impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery? The MENA Grocery team (UFG) is offering a role to own building new business from ground Zero.
- We are seeking a self starter who can quickly familiarize themselves with this fast paced environment, build relationships/trust with cross functional teams, and assume ownership within the program.
- You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.
- High judgment, analytical talent and good document writing skills with concise communication are essential to success in this role.
Key job responsibilities
- Support Category leaders to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities
- Negotiate and build strategic partnership, align and close an end to end vendor relationship and terms of trade, operating model contracts from long shelf life Fresh fruits and vegetables vendors
- Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store front
- Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection, profitability, Pricing, Availability
- Post launches, Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor, Ops, Advertising)
- Define selection assortment, continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage & improve CX
- Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
- Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events.
- Prepare, Pitch & close Annual JBP.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with software and editing tools (including HTML, Excel and SQL)
- Experience in online retail
- Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML
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