Senior Vendor Manager - Goods (8-months contract)

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

 

In this role you'll be responsible for maintaining and nurturing our vendor relationships, and to scale them further in a cross-country environment. This may include managing senior level relationships with strategic vendor partners. On our team, you will be retail-savvy and work to fuel the growth of Goods by managing vendor portfolios to maximise their performance. In some cases you will be required to onboard new vendors. You'll work with vendors across categories and countries, sharing your insights to connect them with new customer bases. 

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let's get into the details: 

 

You’ll spend time on the following: 

 

• You will manage and solidify relationships with our main drop shippers following our guidelines from a quantitative and qualitative perspective 
• You will be in charge of helping drop shippers’ growth and unlock their full potential both in their country of origin and cross border 
• You will be focused on deliver a commercial and profitability targets for your area of responsibility as set by the Groupon Goods business 
• You will manage the vendor portfolio with the goal of optimizing sales and the customer experience, for example, by negotiating commercial terms and conditions, setting competitive retail prices and agreeing CO-OP planned activity 
• You will source new vendors to the platform who can meet the Marketplace trading requirements for the Groupon Customer 

 

We’re excited about you if you have: 

 

• You are great at managing relationships
• You have a meticulous attention to detail with a track record of delivering results while juggling multiple projects 
• You have an uncanny ability to focus in a whirlwind of change, even if that involves occasional karaoke 
• You are self-motivated and have a good ability to manage your workload, your targets and your deliverables 
• You are proactively supporting your peers and the business 

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

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