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Amazon Fresh Grocery is looking for a strategic, highly analytical, and experienced leader to join the team as a Manager of Vendor Management in the Beverages category. Within this role, the individual will manage a team of Vendor Managers, set the strategic direction for the categories, and develop and maintain strong relationships with vendors.

Beverages are a critical, "must win" category within grocery with exciting opportunities to build a strong customer-focused business with sustainable profitability.

Key job responsibilities
- Hiring, developing and leading a team of Retail Vendor Managers.
- Managing a full P&L, including planning, forecasting and driving growth for the categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business.
- Setting goals and strategic direction for the business, ensuring alignment with broader business goals and vision.
- Driving strategic negotiations with external vendors.
- Generating and implementing big ideas to drive business improvement, innovation, and scale within the category and across the retail business as a whole.
-Leading cross functional collaboration on necessary systems and processes to support business needs, including retail systems, site merchandising and in-stock.
- Identifying industry trends that are relevant to customer selection and experience
- Innovating and implementing new customer and vendor programs.
- Representing Amazon when meeting with senior executive teams from top vendors and building long term strategic relationships.