Vendor Manager - Books Team, Germany
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We believe reading is essential for a healthy society; our mission is to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. This spans all formats. We work every day on behalf of customers and readers to solve complex technical and business problems with ingenuity, simplicity and the spirit of innovation that is part of our DNA - and we want you to help in our continuing mission to reinvent reading.
The Books team in Germany is looking for a smart, team-oriented, highly analytical Vendor Manager to join our passionate and fast-paced team and help us scale our business while cultivating and develop our best talent.
The successful candidate will have exceptional project management, communication and analytic skills and big ideas on how to create great customer experiences. They will be detail-oriented, organized and capable of handling multiple projects at once, working to tight deadlines, dealing with multiple teams and corresponding with publishers. The right candidate will be ambitious and keen to move into a fast paced environment.
In this position candidates will:
- Manage strategic programs with leading publishers to create a great customer experience and help the books business and publishers grow
-Complete customer analysis, brainstorm and execute new initiatives to meet customer needs
-Analyse and track publishers' performance on key performance indicators
-Think backwards from the customer means thinking across reading/listening formats: physical books, kindle, Audible
-Work closely with the marketing, supply chain and product management teams within Books to align all efforts and deliver results
- Experience in retail
- Speak, write, and read fluently in German
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or experience in a relevant field
- Experience in project and program management and delivering key business outcomes
- Experience with high-level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management
- Experience working with fast-moving, high-performance teams and driving innovative solutions tailored to unique business environments
- - Minimum 5 years of professional experience in business-to-business relationships, preferably in e-commerce, publishing, or related industries
- - Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and Business Intelligence systems
- - Strong problem-solving skills with a customer-centric mindset
- Experience in retail or digital content including vendor management, product management, or operations management
- Master's degree or above in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
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