Nadege Beauvoir

Senior Vendor Manager, Books @Amazon

Category leader managing key relationships with vendors. STRATEGY & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE Identify, source, and manipulate data to better understand publishers’ business while identifying trends and impacts on the books industry by partnering across 10+ teams to achieve top level account management. Leverage analytics to guide decision-making, dive deep into data and think creatively about new opportunities such as reducing escalation path by 60% through scalable process streamlining. Conduct deep dives as a vendor-facing leader by creating automations via Asana as well as establishing and documenting hundreds of SOPs. Pinpoint opportunities for innovation by creating a feedback loop with vendors to partner and align objectives. NEGOTIATIONS Lead identification, evaluation, negotiations, and management of strategic partnership deals to delight customers and support strategic objectives, exceeded targeted annual financial negotiation wins landing multi-million dollars above goal. Research difficult or ambiguous problems using data analysis, leading cross-disciplinary teams to drive recommendations to senior leadership. Planned and executed vendor negotiations. Streamlined negotiations to reduce hours spent from prep to implementation by 150 hours to reduce manual lift. Created opportunities to negotiate long-term strategic objectives for mass-managed vendors. TERMS IMPLEMENTATION & AUDITING Deliver exceptional results working with key internal stakeholders (product management, legal, marketing, and other Content Acquisition teams worldwide) to eliminate potential vendor issue escalations. Develop business and product requirements, prioritize needs, and manage milestones by leveraging key stakeholder input. Audit and analyze accounts to verify the process to recognize uncollected funds, recovering outstanding payments.