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Job summary

We are seeking a self-driven, goal focused, commercially astute individual to work within our Selection & Vendors team. This is a unique opportunity to join this successful team in a truly global company and to be a key player in supporting it's vision to ensure customers can buy any book in any language, wherever they are in the world. The role involves acquiring new international vendors & selection along side working with existing vendors to drive revenue & profitability growth and operational excellence.

Key job responsibilities

Reporting to the Head of Vendor Management you will have ownership for identifying and prioritizing vendor acquisition, completing terms negotiations and working effectively across teams to complete the on-boarding of internationally located vendors and their selection. Whilst working within a team you will have full personal ownership for capturing selection at a designated country level. Alongside this you will have responsibility for managing existing vendor relationships and performance including renegotiating commercial terms, working with our marketing team to deliver effective marketing and promotional campaigns and our operational and tech teams to raise the bar on operational performance.

A day in the life

This is a key role in delivering against a core company strategic pillar. It involves working with external partners including book publishers, distributors, wholesalers, biblio aggregators and industry agencies. Internal stakeholders include teams in marketing, ordering, fulfilment centre, onboarding, tech, customer services and delivery experience. The role has a wide scope of ownership and autonomy and each day can hold different activities from sourcing new vendor/selection opportunities, negotiating terms, working with internal teams on cross functional projects to deliver improvements for our business and our customers. It will suit an individual able to effectively prioritise and pivot.

About the team

Book Depository (bookdepository.com), an Amazon subsidiary, is a leading international online book retailer with a unique value proposition – huge selection (20 million books), low prices and Free Delivery Worldwide. We serve customers in 170 countries and display books in 26 different local currencies, with dynamic prices. As well as reaching customers globally through our website we also operate as a seller on Amazon marketplaces. Our vision is to offer All Books To All, improving affordability and access to books in any language, from any country through our core value proposition of global selection, low prices and Free Delivery Worldwide.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Clear written and verbal communicator, multi-lingual skills are also a plus.
• Strong commercial background with demonstrable experience in negotiation, business development, and account management ideally in a books, media or FMCG retail environment
• Highly organized, ability to complete a high volume of tasks with limited guidance and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent team player able work effectively with peers and external partners based around the world at all levels of business seniority.
• Flexibility to work across international time zones.
• Minimum 3 years’ work experience.
• Degree level qualifications
• Intermediate level at MS Office programs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience/knowledge of the book industry is beneficial but not essential, the ability to learn and understand it quickly is more important.
• Prior experience of working in partnership with tech and logistics teams