Senior Vendor Manager, Books, Amazon Books
Seattle, WAJob$145–197K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Amazon’s Books team seeks a Senior Vendor Manager to manage strategic publisher relationships and shape content strategy and execution for the US and global marketplaces. The role focuses on growing digital and print books through partnership deals, content acquisition, new business models, and product initiatives. The ideal candidate brings business judgment, analytical ability, negotiation and relationship-management experience, and success launching new initiatives.
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Description
Books have been at the heart of Amazon’s DNA since the very beginning. We believe that reading and books are essential to society. Our mission is to inspire readers and facilitate access to reading across all regions by offering an extensive catalog of books in every possible format.
Do you want to be part of Amazon’s founding business and work with the world’s most influential publishers? Come join the team that started it all! The Books team is looking for an innovative, results-oriented, customer-centric self-starter and team player to help grow our digital and print books business. This Senior Vendor Manager will manage strategic relationships with publishers and help define the content strategy and execution for business initiatives and products in the US and other marketplaces around the world. The ideal candidate has solid business judgment and an analytical mind with a track record of successful negotiations, strong relationship management, and success with launching new business models, initiatives, and products. This person uses complex analytics to guide decision-making, is able to dive deep into data, and think creatively about new opportunities. A background in banking or finance; sales, buying, or partner management; and negotiation is ideal.
Key job responsibilities
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Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate, and manage strategic partnership deals that delight customers and support strategic objectives
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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
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Develop business and product requirements, prioritize needs, and manage milestones with input from key stakeholders
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Establish and execute against selection, operational, and business metrics
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Deliver results by working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. product management, legal, marketing, and other Content Acquisition teams around the world)
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Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management of Amazon and publishers
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Identify opportunities for innovation and automation
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Leverage data analysis to research difficult or ambiguous problems, leading cross-disciplinary teams to drive recommendations to senior leadership
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Develop and execute against P&L while understanding business trends that impact the bottom line
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree or above
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3+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience
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Experience in written and oral communication, including the ability to communicate with all levels in the organization (technical, business, executive)
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5+ years of industry work experience
Preferred Qualifications
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MBA, or Master's degree
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Experience in digital, e-commerce, banking/finance, and/or logistics
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 145,400.00 - 196,700.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 830 open Vendor Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$145–197K/yr
- Washington median$116–164K/yr44 salary ranges
- US median$121–176K/yr548 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $171K, is 20% above the Washington median midpoint ($143K) — in the top quarter of Vendor Management salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 47 open Vendor Management jobs in Washington and 830 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Vendor Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (740 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 262 of the 830 open Vendor Management jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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