Senior Vendor Manager Kindle (French speaker), Kindle France

Job ID: Amazon EU SARL (UK Branch)

The Amazon Kindle team is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric team player to help us continue to revolutionize how customers buy and read books. If you are ready to change the world, work hard, and engage in a rapidly changing industry, this position is right for you. We offer a creative, fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you'll be contributing to Amazon's innovation.

The ideal candidate has a track record of strong negotiation, relationship building, and analytical skills, the ability to recommend and execute a vision, and build programs and features from the ground up. You will be able to influence across multiple company organizations, be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker, and have a history of delivering results. You will establish and drive new relationships and strengthen existing relationships with publishers. You will be customer-focused, entrepreneurial, a proven self-starter, and have the demonstrated ability to invent.

Key Responsibilities

1. Be an expert relationship manager and communicator, who works closely with publishers up to C-level to ensure Amazon customers can find any book in our store, download it quickly at a great price, and have an excellent experience reading it.
2. Be responsible for specific publisher level metrics around selection, subscription participation, and profitability.
3. Become an ebooks expert who understands industry trends, the competitive environment, and readers' needs - and innovates in response.
4. Work closely with leaders across the Kindle organization - locally and globally - to ensure we continue to develop new services and products.
5. Identify opportunities for innovation and automation.

This position can be based in London.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree, or experience in a professional field or military.
2. Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL.
3. Experience with Excel.
4. Experience in account management, project/program management, or buying.
5. Experience using data to influence business decisions.
6. Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration.
7. Experience with business analysis and P&L management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Fluency in French.

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