Vendor Manager, Selection (12 months fixed term contract), Branded Gift Cards

12 months fixed term contract with potential extension.
This role can be based in Munich or London.

The Amazon Gift Card business is a rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar business. Within Gift Cards, the Branded Gift Cards team is responsible for managing our Third Party brands. The success story of our program started in EU in 2018. Since then, we have relentlessly worked on the expansion to 6 countries (DE, UK, FR, IT, ES, NL) and on growing our brand selection to offer our customers a vast choice that they can’t find elsewhere. We offer a selection of 150+ international and national brands, such as Apple, Zalando, Netflix, or DAZN, across 10+ different categories (e.g. Entertainment, Fashion, Restaurants, Ride Share & Travel). We aspire to offer our customers the largest selection of gift cards and a delightful shopping experience by continuously expanding our brand and product portfolio and by adding innovative product features.

We are looking for a data-driven, customer- and partner-centric Vendor Manager to manage our EU6 third-party gift card selection and drive strategic brand and product portfolio growth while securing the program's profitability. You will work closely with our strategic external partners, dive deep to understand customer trends, and optimize our selection to address new opportunities. You will build plans to grow your category, measure results, and work with internal and external partners to accelerate growth.

Key job responsibilities
• Manage our existing selection and selection expansion strategy across 6 countries and 150+ brand partners.
• Audit our existing selection, analyze trends across the Gift Card industry and listen to our customers to detect design, form factor, brand and category gaps. Accelerate growth by building and executing short and mid-term growth plans in alignment with our key partners, sizing opportunities, defining priorities and timelines. Keep partnering teams accountable to deliver within aligned timelines.
• Be the ambassador for the Branded Gift Cards EU program to attract new brand partners. Work across relevant Amazon teams and deepen the partnership to acquire new brands.
• Identify blockers for selection onboarding and work on appropriate solutions. This requires a profound understanding of our technical set-up and legal framework. Lead alignment with GC Leadership, Legal, Product, Tech, Finance and partnering categories for path to green.
• Build reports with relevant metrics and KPIs to track progress and report updates in Business Reviews.
• Audit the portfolio health, securing long-term growth and profitability.
• Collaborate with Operations to increase efficiency wins for selection onboarding and reduce friction to assure faster time to market.
• Assure a frictionless shopping experience for our customers, improving product page data and removing obstacles throughout the purchase flow, partnering with internal and external teams.

A day in the life
• Establishes and maintains a strong relationship with key internal and external partners.
• Has exceptional project management skills and is an effective communicator.
• Has proven analytical skills. Goes deep into a high variety of data points which is condensed into a strategy and concrete actions.
• Brings enthusiasm for problem solving and creativity in finding a path to green.
• Manages competing priorities independently. Has a strong judgement to shuffle priorities when needed.

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

Munich, BY, DEU