Sr. Vendor Manager Kindle (French speaker) - Fixed Term Contract, Kindle France

Job description

Amazon Kindle team is looking for 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 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, 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.

Within this role, you will:

- 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.

- Be responsible for specific publisher level metrics around selection, subscription participation, and profitability

- Become an ebooks expert who understands industry trends, the competitive environment and readers’ needs - and innovates in response.

- Work closely with leaders across the Kindle organization – locally and globally – to ensure we continue to develop new services and products.

- Identify opportunities for innovation and automation

This position can be based at London.

Key job responsibilities

- Strategic management of key publishers

- Defining category strategy/vision and executing it with stakeholders