Amazon Publishing, the full-service publishing arm of Amazon, is seeking an energetic and process-oriented Associate Vendor Manager. In this role, you will focus on administering and streamlining current processes that support the management of creative service partners, including design, editorial, marketing, and PR vendors. With a goal of creating an environment that attracts and retains world-class talent, you will work to ensure cross-team, cross-tool coordination for smooth vendor engagement, ongoing success management and regularly process invoices for payment. The successful candidate is highly organized and relishes the opportunity to wrangle and analyze data in Excel. They also have strong interpersonal skills, the ability to independently drive projects, consistently prioritize multiple, competing tasks, and a passion for reading to help us fulfill our mission of driving and measuring excellence in publishing.

Key job responsibilities
* Liaise with third party managed service provider(s) and partner with multiple internal teams to administer weekly review of expiring vendor contracts, update contracts as necessary, and track onboarding progress.
* Manage US vendor payment and reconciliation process, facilitate reporting to surface vendor and service cost metadata to internal partners, and drive best possible vendor payment experience.
* Create and manage auditing mechanisms for vendor profiles to ensure complete and accurate vendor metadata.
* Oversee end-to-end onboarding process for multiple sub-categories of vendors and facilitate continued relationship management.
* Troubleshoot escalations to ensure best working environment possible for vendors.
* Collaborate with finance, tax, and legal to advise on and execute business strategy in a compliant manner.

A day in the life
The Associate Vendor Manager may spend part of their day working with our 3rd party managed service provider to process upcoming contract renewals, answer inquiries from vendors regarding processes or tool adoption, processing new invoices received and validate service assignment and rates, coordinate with internal Design team on vendor pool and new onboarding requests and liaise with internal Accounts Payable teams to facilitate invoice payment. There is regular juggling priorities and communicating with teams internal to Amazon Publishing, internal to Amazon and external vendors.

About the team
The Vendor Management team is a tight-knit, fast moving team with a wide array of opportunities to learn and grow. It requires speed to execute urgent tasks but also ample opportunity to streamline processes to maximize bespoke support of our internal partner teams and external vendors.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA