AVS Team Manager, AVS

Amazon is looking for a Team Lead to manage Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) within a single or multiple Product families. Amazon Vendor Services are a suite of services designed to help Amazon's most strategic vendors grow and deliver the best customer experience by working across all key retail levers (e.g. selection, availability, operational efficiency, catalog quality, and marketing).
The service is delivered primarily through AVS specialist assigned to specific vendors. Amazon has an ambitious vision for the future of this service, focusing on business impact for vendors and the categories, operational scalability and vendor satisfaction. As Team Lead, you will be responsible to deliver impact to a group of strategic vendors, through a team AVS Specialist reporting to you. Your priority will be to deliver on our commitment to help vendors improve their performance across key retail metrics, ensure their satisfaction with the service and continuously improve the productivity of your team. You will work in close collaboration with Vendor Managers to understand your vendors’ needs and define the right goals and targets.
Finally you will be expected to contribute to continuous enhancements and innovation within the service. You should be passionate about managing and developing people, highly analytical, resourceful and customer focused. You need to have a proven track record of delivering results in fast-paced and dynamic business environments while managing the sometimes-conflicting needs of different groups of stakeholders.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Partner with Vendor Managers and key retail category functions to define priorities and operational goals according to vendor needs Own the relationship with the most important vendors subscribed to the AVS service (through the AVS specialist)
• Manage a team of Brand Specialists owning the joint business plans for a large pool of vendors to deliver significant business impact
• Audit metrics regularly to continually drive quality of vendor and employee experience across multiple sub-categories
• Work with the AVS specialists to drive adoption of tools and offshore processes and drive productivity within your team
• Define the skills required within the team to support your vendors with specific problematics
• Develop the right skillsets within the team and allocate resources to vendors Grow and develop people into a talent pool for Amazon
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree or min 5-year Diploma
• Minimum 5 years working Experience in either of the following areas: Account management/Customer Development, Buying, Business Management, Business Consulting, Project Management, Financial Analysis and/or Marketing.
• Previous people management experience advantageous
• Previous AVS experience also advantageous




Key job responsibilities
• Partner with Vendor Managers and key retail category functions to define priorities and operational goals according to vendor needs
• Own the relationship with the most important vendors subscribed to the AVS service (through the AVS specialist)
• Manage a team of Brand Specialists owning the joint business plans for a large pool of vendors to deliver significant business impact
• Audit metrics regularly to continually drive quality of vendor and employee experience across multiple sub-categories
• Work with the AVS specialists to drive adoption of tools and offshore processes and drive productivity within your team
• Define the skills required within the team to support your vendors with specific problems and opportunity areas
• Develop the right skillsets within the team and allocate resources to vendors Grow and develop people into a talent pool for Amazon
• Deliver business results through the team
• Run and deliver high impact project that directly impacts the AVS strategy and success metrics within Amazon
• Develop the team for future pipelines into AVS management, VM roles or global roles
- 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- 3+ years of market research analyst, product manager, or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of doing one of several roles: quantitative/financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, pricing, marketing or e-commerce experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
- People management experience- 3+ years of doing one of several roles: management consulting, investment banking analyst/associate, or brand manager role at leading consumer packaged goods company experience
- Experience in financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, marketing, business development, consulting, negotiation or supply chain
- Experience navigating multi tiered multinational stakeholders and highly ambiguous, complex environments at Amazon or similar large corporations.

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