Senior Vendor Manager, Automotive, Other Hardlines, Furniture

Description

We are seeking an experienced, results-oriented Sr. Vendor Manager for Automotive Category in KSA. This role will focus on managing existing vendors and onboard new vendors to scale Automotive category in KSA.

If you are looking for an entrepreneurial role within a fast-paced, ambiguous and collaborative environment please reach out for more info then this is the position for you.

Key job responsibilities

The SVM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment.

The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

This is an external facing role with close collaboration with external vendors to build selection from local and international vendors.

 Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities for the organization

 Negotiations- Build strategic partnership, align and close end to end vendor relationship and terms of trade, operating model contracts

 Build the annual portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store-front

 Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection, profitability, Pricing, Availability

 Post launches, Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor, Ops, Advertising)

 Source deals during Tier 1 & Tier 2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers

 Ensure content quality is best in class to improve conversion

 Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events.

 Prepare, Pitch & close Annual JBP with vendors.

 MBR / QBR with vendors on performance & improvement

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Bachelor's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• MBA
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
• Experience handling Heavy & bulky categories
  
  

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Company - Afaq Q Tech General Trading

Job ID: A2884489