Amazon Australia & New Zealand
2021 Retail Vendor Intern (Dec 2021)
Sydney
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- 1-20 vacancies
- Apply by 9 Aug 2021
- Start date 5 Dec 2021
We're looking for ambitious and enthusiastic candidates to join us at the heart of our core consumer business. Students will gain experience working in the retail and marketplace teams, helping manufacturers and sellers optimize their business on Amazon.com.au.
Retail
Amazon Retail teams work to help improve the selection and shopping experience for customers across our product categories, from Books to Fashion, Electronics, Movies and Music to Toys and Health & Beauty, and everything in between.
As a Retail Intern you'll work in one of those categories, learning how Amazon manages and grows its e-commerce retail business, and developing the analytical and problem-solving skills that our people are known for. You will work with Senior Vendor Managers, Senior Program Managers, manufacturers, as well as colleagues in other functions, such as in-stock management and merchandising. You will learn about and help develop product categories, vendor relationships and promotional campaigns; gaining broad-based experience to support your development as a vendor manager. This is all with a view to making sure our customers can find and discover anything and everything they want online.
Marketplace (3P)
As an Account Manager Intern, you will assist with the growth of Amazon's third-party merchants. Amazon's Seller Services business includes all third-party merchant activity through the variety of services we offer: Selling on Amazon, Fulfilment by Amazon, Sponsored Products and Amazon Global Selling. Working within one of the fastest-growing areas of Amazon you will have the opportunity to work with merchants across a variety of different product categories and from different countries helping to grow their business with Amazon. In addition, we want you to implement improvement projects and be involved in the launch of new programs based on feedback from the merchants you engage with. These projects will require you to work with different teams across Amazon, including working with category teams, product teams, and technical support teams.
Basic Qualifications
- Open to all disciplines for candidates in the penultimate year of their degree.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Passionate about online business, e-commerce and sales
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to handle objections and negotiate
- People who are self-motivated, flexible and place the customer at the center of everything
- Have Australian or New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency
Opportunities in both Retail and Seller Services demand broad commercial awareness. We hold analytical skills in high regard at Amazon and hire those who can interpret complex information and use this to develop clear, actionable plans.
Preferred Qualifications
(Advantageous but not essential)
- Some work experience - whether through placement years, internships or university.
- Experience in data analysis โ confident manipulating large sets of data, identifying trends and areas for new business growth (SQL skills are a plus!).
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
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As a Brand Specialist Intern, there are two components to the intern program: your designated intern project and the Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) task list. The intern program is designed for you to have ownership by working on a specific problem project whilst giving you a taste of what it's like to be a working Brand Specialist (ie. vendor management, instock management, etc.).
Engaging customers, trying to identify their problems and connect them with the village of Amazonians that have the expertise to solve those problems. This means calling customers, hosting meetings, preparing experts with customer information for those meetings and collating compelling narratives around a problem or solution from our 1000's of customer references. It also means connecting with the Amazon Partner Network - learning about our partners, their offerings and other opportunities or relationships with our customers.
About the employer
Amazon AU
4.3
> 100,000 employees
Technology
Amazon's mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, and inventions begin and end with the customer's top of mind.
Pros and cons of working at Amazon AU
Pros
I enjoy the ownership of my intern project the most at Amazon... There's a large component of fulfilment I receive whenever I find pain points and strategise ways to solve them.
Everyone is super friendly and genuinely interested in the work I was doing. Everyone is happy to help and provide valuable feedback, insight, or advice.
The decom team is a very supportive and easy-going environment. We have laughs and talk about anything, but when work needs to be done, we collectively lock in and get the work done.
The work hours are really flexible. There is no formal logging of hours, and working from home is also an option.
The office is located in Town Hall, so it's super convenient... The working spaces are close to huge windows and have lots of plants. There are games rooms with virtual reality headsets, Nintendo Switches, and more.
Cons
Since Amazon is a big global company, it does take some time for requested data to be received, especially when dealing with different international time zones.
AVS is incredibly results-oriented, which has resulted in some churn over recent periods as people have been unable to deliver results in a way that would allow them to pass their probation period.
The interview process was very intense with three rounds, making it difficult but rewarding.
Like most jobs, I'd like higher pay but cannot complain.
Due to the size of the company and global time zones, responses to urgent queries may be delayed.