Business Development Manager for Strategic Initiatives

3 days ago


Riyad Al Khabra, Saudi Arabia Afaq Q Tech General Trading (Amazon) Full time
Job Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to join our team as a Vendor Manager, Strategic Initiatives – Ultra Fast Grocery. In this role, you will be responsible for building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing your team.

The ideal candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world-class shopping experience for our customers.

You will influence internal and external stakeholders and leadership to buy in to your strategic direction, build a buying and sourcing strategy for a new category while ensuring flawless execution and continuously analyzing key metrics to drive improvements for your business.

Main Responsibilities
  1. This is an external facing role with close collaboration with external vendors to build seasonal selection and long shelf-life Fresh/Frozen space. The role has potential to build Amazon Ultra-Fast-Grocery (UFG) Retail business from scratch, define SOP for scaling the business on long term.
  2. Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities.
  3. Negotiations: Build strategic partnership, align and close end-to-end vendor relationship and terms of trade, operating model contracts from long shelf-life Fresh & Frozen vendors (F&V, Dairy, Poultry, Ice-cream etc.).
  4. Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store-front.
  5. Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection, profitability, Pricing, Availability.
  6. Post launches, Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor, Ops, Advertising).
  7. Define selection assortment, continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage & improve CX.
  8. Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers.
  9. Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events.
  10. Prepare, Pitch & close Annual JBP.


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