Amazon Looking for Brand Specialist – Toys, Amazon Canada at Ontario Full Time

Description

Amazon’s Canada team is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, hard-working, analytical and creative candidate to join the Toys team. You will work directly with strategic vendor partners to develop their business.

Key job responsibilities

The Brand Specialist position offers an exciting introduction to our on-line retail business and a broad training ground for future success. This role will work directly with a strategic vendors to grow their businesses and optimize their supply chains while working with multiple internal teams and management. The Brand Specialist will develop skills and work across functional areas (e.g. In-stock, Vendor Management, Site Merchandising) to grow and improve their portfolio. This role is for experienced brand managers with the ability to think strategically and act tactically.

A day in the life

• Acting as the ‘business owner’ for his or her vendors in their respective categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business

• Owning forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on vendors, along with responsibility for driving strategic supply chain projects and promotions to achieve business objectives

• Proactively negotiating costs, promotional opportunities, and other business inputs for the vendor — autonomously

• Conducting pricing and ROI analysis and making recommendations for initiatives that optimize profit margin

• Managing Purchase Orders and In-Stock analysis for the strategic brands

• Optimizing the online presence and content of each product on the brand’s portfolio

• Developing and executing marketing plans in order to drive awareness and purchases for the brand

• Driving cross-category initiatives to improve operational process and deliver results

About the team

Our team has a strong culture of hard working individuals that value flexibility, ownership, and ability to create our own priorities. Success is driven by an ability to operate independently, while sharing learnings, wins, and misses across the team.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Toronto, ON, CAN

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in process improvement

• Experience managing large amounts of data

• Experience in financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, marketing, business development, consulting, negotiation or supply chain

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