Vendor Manager (Buyer)
In the world of e-commerce, where scale is critical, data is the only way to make informed strategic decisions. We pride ourselves on being data-driven in continuous attempts to grow, evolve, and remain ahead of the market.
This position would present an opportunity to be at the forefront of the US retail landscape. We're looking for someone who enjoys retailing and understands the nuances of product buying. You will be responsible for driving profitability and margin expansion while owning the vision and ecommerce strategy of the vendor.
The job entails maintaining relationships with our vendors, identifying products that will complete our assortment & negotiating with vendors on cost and inventory decisions. You should enjoy flexing your number-crunching skills and have an eye for detail to have a significant and measurable impact on our business. You will work closely with our inventory planning & pricing teams to achieve your set targets.
Responsibilities
- Maintain, grow, and nurture relationships with established and growing vendors.
- Negotiate with vendors on cost and inventory decisions.
- Develop and monitor product pricing strategies to ensure we are a top retail partner in the long term.
- Conduct sales and order analysis using Microsoft Excel.
- Research new market opportunities to identify business competition and sales.
Requirements
- Strong number crunching & quantitative skills
- Strong business acumen, logical and analytical skills
- Thrive and adapt quickly in a fast paced ever-evolving culture
- Digging deep into the industry, competitors and the latest trends
- Have strong communication skills - both written and oral
- Subscribe to a mentality of work hard, stay positive and implement feedback
Qualifications
- Management Degree from a top 20 business school.
- Ideally suited for 2017 / 2018 / 2019 batch graduates
Benefits
- 100% remote, work from home position
- Onsite travel to the US
- Ongoing training and growth opportunities
- Retreats, offsite team-building activities & conferences
- Medical, Accident Cover & Life Insurance
- Wellness, Home Internet & Skill Development Benefits
- Department
- Business Strategy
- Remote status
- Fully Remote