Amazon Hiring for Brand Specialist, AVS (Amazon Vendor Services) at Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Full Time

Full Job Description

Job Description :
Are you a self-starter with a passion
for e-commerce, 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 Amazon’s 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 end-to-end 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
execution
. 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, execution 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 cross-functional 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 e-commerce, opening a multitude of
career paths.

Key job responsibilities

• Build an
  understanding of customer pain points, requirements, and potential
  value that can be delivered by advertising or merchant services
• Identify target accounts using market data and industry
  intelligence
• Learn the advertising or merchant services
  portfolio and the Amazon culture
• 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

Basic
Qualifications :

• Define strategies to deliver
  best-in-class customer experience while delivering profitable growth
  in the retail category
• Develop knowledge of supply/ demand
  trends and success drivers of your category
• Establish
  relationships and negotiate agreements/deals with leading
  manufacturers and brands. Drive new product launches and additions in
  the category
• Execute and lead projects to more efficiently
  source stock, manage prices, execute promotions
• Collaborate
  with vendors and merchandizing teams on promotions and marketing
  initiatives and coordinate with the Merchandising team to execute
  these activities
• Collaborate with operational teams to ensure
  healthy inventory levels while managing stock-out/ overstock risk
• Participate in day-to-day operational aspects of the
  category, including gathering and addressing customer feedback, price
  monitoring, business improvement initiatives.
• Be an
  ambassador within the industry and continuously enhance Amazon’s
  position.

Preferred Qualifications
:

• Excellent business judgment with strong written and oral
  communication skills
• Superior analytical abilities and
  quantitative skills. Comfortable with complex financial data.
• Polished communication skills – speaking, writing, presenting
  and negotiating
• High threshold for working in an ambiguous,
  fast paced environment start-up like environment – figuring it out and
  adapting as you go
• Ability to operate simultaneously and
  effectively in both tactical and strategic modes
• A
  willingness to roll up sleeves to get it done
• Experience in
  vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and
  product development
• Ability to think and lead in a
  high-energy, fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with
  ‘hands-on’ management of tasks, and proven ability to manage multiple,
  competing priorities simultaneously
• Ability to own, manage
  and speak to a P&L
• Proficient in Excel