Senior Vendor Partner (Home and Garden) at Allegro

We are looking for an experienced Vendor Partner that will be responsible for vendor mapping and acquisition, to address core automated sourcing needs.

You will support Retail Analytics and Tech Teams in facilitating IT integration. Your knowledge of  e-commerce business will contribute to development of dedicated tools supporting business processes (e.g. automatic purchase process, price management process). Also in this role you’ll be responsible for ongoing vendor management to ensure fit for use product catalogues are in place to deliver on Retail’s role of addressing price competitiveness gaps on top selling assortment in a timely manner. You will need to ensure there is sufficient volume available at adequate prices, to ensure delivery of targeted stock rotation and operating margin levels. In this role you will collaborate closely both within Retail Business Units (Analytics & Planning, Supply Chain, Offer Development) and with broader organization (Commercial Excellence, Commerce, Technology, Delivery Experience, Legal, Customer Experience).

What will your responsibilities include?

• Ensuring that daily updates of supplier catalogues are performed correctly
• Checking if different methods of supplier catalogues are available
• Ensuring supplier catalogues are mapped correctly in the sourcing tools
• Supporting Analytics Team in co-defining necessary range of automated tools and process flow
• Ongoing vendor management within automated sourcing process including:
• Defining product catalogue adequate to address automated sourcing needs
• Ensuring stock level availability adequate to address automated sourcing needs
• Making sure that targeted sourcing time is delivered
• Verifying if price levels are adequate to address margin targets and that purchase volumes are adequate to address stock rotation targets

Why is it worth working with us?

• It is an opportunity to participate in a greenfield project and co-creating a new end to end business logic
• You will have a chance to become a member of a team including high-profile managers and analysts from various backgrounds (E-Commerce, FMCG, Management Consulting etc.), with strong exposure to Senior Leadership/Top Management (CEO, CCO, CFO)
• You will have direct impact on delivering automated sourcing strategy and core KPIs
• Opportunity to co-develop automated sourcing tools and in an E-Commerce environment
• Opportunity to join a fast-growing organization that has a leading position on the market
• Dynamic working culture and stability of a mature organization
• Modern office and tools
• A wide selection of benefits provided in addition to remuneration
• Exceptional learning opportunities and access to a wide selection of training programs and global conferences

We offer:

• A modern office and cutting-edge tools
• Informal working atmosphere in a professional team
• A wide selection of non-wage benefits (such as health insurance, life insurance, gym membership – Multisport, and much more) – you choose what you want
• English lessons paid by Allegro
• Exceptional learning opportunities, that include a training budget and access to a wide selection of training programs on our internal MindUp platform

We are looking for people who:

• Have 3-5 years of experience in vendor acquisition and vendor management
• If have experience within automated sourcing set-up, it will be an additional advantage
• Deeply understand Polish Wholesale and Distributor markets in on-line sales – preferred experience with Home & Garden or Health & Beauty categories
• Present ability to collaborate and drive alignment on Top Management level with external partners
• Have exceptional persuasion and influencing skills
• Have ability to participate in discussions regarding software/automated tools development
• With process orientation – ability to understand and operate within complex process set-up
• Communicate fluently in Polish and English
• Are advanced Excel users

Apply to Allegro and see why it is #dobrzetubyć (#goodtobehere)

2022-03-14 2022-04-14T00:00:00+03:00 Full time TELECOMMUTE Poland Allegro