Brand Specialist AVS Amazon Vendor Services

Description

Are you a selfstarter with a passion for ecommerce looking to expand your retail skillset and shaping the way the biggest brands work with Amazon

Sounds great. What will I be working on

As Brand Specialist you will be part of the Strategic Vendor Services (SVS) team which provides a suite of services designed to help Amazons most strategic brands working across all key areas of retail business. You will work with vendors supplying the top brands on Amazon acting as the main point of contact for them. Your priority will be to work backwards from the customer identifying inputs to grow your brands and improve their performance. You will do this while facilitating great business relationships and ensuring vendors satisfaction with the service.

Key Responsibilities As a Brand Specialist Are:

Own the relationship endtoend with top brands
Partner internally with key retail functions to contribute to the definition of priorities and operational goals according to the brands needs
Partner with our Media Team to insure best in class event
Define joint business plans and assist in delivering impact for the brands you support directly
Regularly audit metrics to continually drive quality of the SVS experience and deliver targets
Contribute to continuous enhancement and innovation within the SVS across MENA

Brand Specialists Work On a Variety Of Tasks For The Brands They Support Typically Falling Within The Five Focus Areas. These Include But Are Not Limited To:

Business Advice: Providing business advice based on deep financial analysis and reporting to identify areas of opportunities
Selection: Helping grow the selection of products by managing the launch of new products and improving product discoverability
Availability: Support driving process improvement and operational excellence within our vendor community by reducing costs defects and lead times while increasing innovation
Traffic: Analyzing traffic channels and working on initiatives to generate traffic by supporting the development of marketing and merchandising campaigns
Conversion: Planning and executing promotional activities and improving customer journey on Amazon

Alongside this you will contribute to improving the efficiency of the service itself. We are constantly working to build scale for this service through the right set of tools and crossfunctional collaboration including but not limited to Tech teams.

This role is available in Dubai United Arab Emirates

This role offers 360 exposure to different areas of the industry ecommerce opening a multitude of career paths.


Key job responsibilities

Be the point of brand and category expertise for Amazon Tier 1 Vendors serving as a trusted business advisor
Help by innovating new solutions to complex business challenges
Own and manage significant pool of Tier 1 Vendors
Developing selling implementing and evaluating business plans to deliver or exceed on the vendor improvement plans
Collaborating with multifunctional teams (Marketing Finance Supply Operations among others)
Managing and improving pricing visibility and availability for your brands
Translate Category Business Plans into tangible action plans
Develop productive working relationships with the vendors and create the mutually beneficial value
Turn raw data and insights into actionable conclusions
Use analytical tools and integrate various data systems to develop new insights
Identify opportunities to improve our products services processes systems and tools
Work with different parts of the Amazon business to implement improvement projects including working with category teams product teams and technical support teams

Bachelors degree in Business Science Engineering fields or Supply Chain with an excellent academic background
Between 0 4 years of experience in key accounts management projects management customer facing roles or commercial roles
Excellent analytical problem solving and negotiating skills
Advanced MS Office Skills (Excel proficiency is a must)
MNCs experience especially in FMCG/Ecommerce/Digital is preferred.

Experience in digital and ecommerce space
Brand management of portfolio/regional roles
Previous Key Account Management experience is an advantage
Experience in process improvement
Experience managing large amounts of data
Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics SQL or HTML

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