en Madrid

Our overall mission is simple: We want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it. With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds and implement innovation. This is your chance to make history.

Amazon is looking for a smart, team-oriented, highly analytical leader to join the IT&ES Consumer Electronics team as a Category Leader, Consumer Electronics based in Madrid.

The role comprises leadership of a high performing team in vendor management, continuously improving the customer experience of the categories (Camera, Consumer Electronics), driving category profitability, developing & growing the category and expanding our partnerships with key brands as well as working closely with our supply chain and fulfillment teams to deliver great results.
The best candidate will have a broad skill set including strong vendor management and negotiations skills, leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. You must be willing to challenge the status quo in order to improve existing workflows and processes to enhance customer experience.
You will work with vendors of medium & large size and must have the leadership presence and communication skills to represent the category across departments. Experience in retail business, analytics, strategic thinking, negotiations and operations are required.

This is how you can contribute to our success:
· Develop and lead the vendor management team for the Camera and Consumer Electronics categories
· Build strong and sustainable relationships at an executive level with our vendors. Find creative solutions in negotiations and facilitate discussions in order to drive profitable growth
· Improve the customer experience, optimize our offering, and getting the basics right (price, selection, convenience)
· As a leader within the business you will share best practice across categories, also contributing to the international know how
· Turn in-depth analysis into strategic insight, present these in convincing figures and turn them into action
· Seek out ways to automate and simplify manual processes in order to improve productivity
· Work closely with stakeholder teams (e.g. supply chain, advertising) to align all efforts and deliver results

· University degree required ideally in an analytical discipline, e.g. business or engineering, ideally MBA
· Vendor Management and buyer experience at a senior level for several years ideally in an e-commerce, retail, key account management or consulting environment
· Excellent negotiation skills in Spanish
· Experience in building senior level internal and external relationships in a complex and dynamic organization and in influencing cross-functional teams
· Strong communication skills and an assertive approach, whilst maintaining your ability to be vocally self-critical
· A smart way of thinking in order to find innovative approaches for vendor management
· A business focused way of thinking and a strong hands-on, results-driven mentality combined with a high desire to work strategically
· Highly analytical skill set with aptitude for figures and data-driven argumentation, Very good Excel Skills are a must
· Experience of managing and developing a high performing team
· Passionate self-starter, decisive and able to move with speed to implement ideas

· MBA from leading business school and several years relevant business experience
· Strong commercial experience
· Cross functional experience, especially finance, marketing or supply chain
· Excellent knowledge of Excel and database work, with experience in SQL as a plus
Is this a challenge you would like to take on? Is this the kind of environment in which you thrive? If so, start looking forward to the excellent opportunities we have to offer your professional development, as well as our attractive compensation package that will make you a part of our company’s success.

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