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Senior Vendor Manager, Books, Amazon Books

Amazon· Business & Merchant Development
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USA, WA, Seattle$145.4k - $196.7kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Senior Vendor Manager to manage strategic relationships with publishers and help define content strategy and execution for books across the US and other marketplaces. Focus on negotiation, partnerships, and data-driven decision making to grow digital and print books business.

Responsibilities

  • Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate, and manage strategic partnership deals that delight customers and support strategic objectives
  • Serve as a key member of the Content Acquisition team in defining and delivering the strategy around content acquisition, new business models, promotional programs, and growing readership around the world
  • Develop business and product requirements, prioritize needs, and manage milestones with input from key stakeholders
  • Establish and execute against selection, operational, and business metrics
  • Deliver results by working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. product management, legal, marketing, and other Content Acquisition teams around the world)
  • Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management of Amazon and publishers
  • Identify opportunities for innovation and automation
  • Leverage data analysis to research difficult or ambiguous problems, leading cross-disciplinary teams to drive recommendations to senior leadership
  • Develop and execute against P&L while understanding business trends that impact the bottom line

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or above
  • 3+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
  • Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)
  • 5+ years of industry work experience

Skills

Required:Strategic partnerships and negotiationsData analysisCross-functional program management

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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