Assistant Category Manager, Amazon Now
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About the Role
Amazon's MENA Grocery team seeks an Assistant Category Manager to build the Ultra-Fast-Grocery 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 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
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 pa
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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