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Retail Vendor Manager I -REMOTE

Job title: Retail Vendor Manager I -REMOTE
Contract type: Freelance
Location: Seattle
Discipline: Data
Remote: Yes
Reference: 411327
Contact name: Mai Siddiqui

Job description

Length of Contract: 4 months

Location or Remote: Remote

Client Overview: The client operates at the intersection of advertising and eCommerce and offers advertisers a rich array of innovative advertising solutions across their ecosystem of mobile and desktop websites, proprietary devices and advertising platform.

Position Overview: The Brand Specialist position offers an exciting introduction to on-line retail business and a broad training ground for future success. This role will work directly with a strategic vendor partner to grow their business and achieve qualitative and quantitative goals while working with multiple internal teams and management. 

Responsibilities:

  • Acting as the business owner for his or her vendor in their respective categories, possessing a complete understanding of internal and external variables that impact the business.
  • This entails forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on vendor, along with responsibility for driving strategic projects and promotions to achieve business objectives
  • Proactively negotiating costs, promotional opportunities, and other business inputs for the vendor
  • Conducting pricing and ROI analysis and making recommendations for initiatives that optimize profit margin
  • Managing Purchase Orders and In-Stock analysis for the strategic vendor
  • Scheduling, updating, and producing content on product detail pages and general pages, including numerous cataloging and editing tasks
  • Helping with numerous marketing and email efforts, scheduling product lists, analyzing site promotions, performance and making recommendations on marketing plans

Key Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 0-2 years of relevant experience
  • Proficiency in Excel and data analysis
  • Excellent presentation, organization and account management skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
  • Strong database and computer skills
  • Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results
  • Experience in process improvement
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