Amazon Online Arbitrage Purchasing Manager

We operate a high-volume Amazon resale business and are looking for a highly analytical, trustworthy, and experienced Purchasing Manager to oversee our final buying decisions.

Currently, we have a team of Virtual Assistants who source leads through Storefront Stalking and submit them for review. Your role is to serve as the final filter before company funds are spent. You will review submitted leads, verify their profitability and compliance with our purchasing criteria, and make the final decision on whether inventory should be purchased.

We currently spend $8,000–$10,000 per day on inventory. This means you will be responsible for helping manage significant capital. We are looking for someone who treats company money as if it were their own, makes decisions based strictly on data and ROI, and is interested in growing into our full-time Lead Purchaser.

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How the Position Works

Phase 1: Paid Trial & Calibration (1–2 Weeks)

Your first phase is a paid trial where we’ll start with a limited number of purchasing decisions while we calibrate your judgment to our business.

During this phase, you will:

* Review leads submitted by our sourcing team.
* Verify all key metrics (Keepa history, SellerAmp data, IP risk, supplier legitimacy, etc.).
* Make mock or small-scale purchasing decisions.
* Receive detailed feedback to align your decision-making with our purchasing standards.

Phase 2: Scaling Up

As you demonstrate consistency and sound judgment, your purchasing authority will gradually increase. The goal is for you to eventually manage our full daily purchasing budget independently.

Phase 3: Full-Time Purchaser

Once fully calibrated, you will become the final gatekeeper for all inventory purchases. Your performance will be measured by the quality of your purchasing decisions, the ROI of approved products, and your ability to avoid bad buys.

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Responsibilities

* Review daily product leads submitted through Google Sheets.
* Verify all key data points, including:
* Sales Rank
* ROI
* Profit
* Buy Box stability
* IP risk
* Supplier legitimacy
* Make final Go/No-Go purchasing decisions.
* Execute purchases using company payment methods (once trust has been established).
* Provide feedback to sourcing VAs to improve lead quality.
* Track daily purchasing activity and maintain accurate purchasing logs.

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Requirements

Required

* Deep expertise in Amazon Online Arbitrage and product analysis.
* Advanced proficiency with Keepa, including interpreting charts, identifying price tanking risks, and understanding listing history.
* Advanced proficiency with SellerAmp SAS.
* Exceptional attention to detail and strong ethical standards.
* Excellent spoken and written English.

Preferred

* Previous experience serving as a final reviewer or purchaser for an Amazon Online Arbitrage business.

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Who This Role Is For

You will thrive in this role if you are:

* Analytical — You trust data over intuition.
* Decisive — You confidently make purchasing decisions when the data supports them.
* Cautious — You know how to recognize risky inventory before money is spent.
* Coachable — You are willing to learn and consistently apply our purchasing criteria.

This is not a role for someone who rushes through reviews or guesses. Every bad purchase costs the business money. Every good purchase helps it grow.

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The Hiring Process & Front-End Filtering

To ensure we hire the right person for this role, our application process is intentionally selective. It is designed to evaluate attention to detail, analytical ability, communication skills, and real Amazon OA knowledge.

We also require a Loom video to help verify that responses are genuine and not AI-generated.

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Before You Apply

Please read this entire posting carefully.

To be considered, follow these instructions exactly:

1. Put “Gatekeeper” as the first word in the subject line.
2. Include your email address.
3. Answer the text questions below using numbered responses.
4. Record a 3–5 minute Loom video answering the video questions below and include the Loom link in your application.
5. End your application with the phrase “Data drives decisions.”
6. Do not attach a résumé.

Applications that do not follow these instructions exactly will not be considered.

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Application Questions (Text Responses)

1. Experience

Describe your experience making final purchasing decisions or analyzing Amazon OA leads using Keepa and SellerAmp.

Have you served as the final purchaser before? If so, describe your responsibilities.

2. Supplier Legitimacy

List five (5) supplier characteristics or red flags that would immediately cause you to reject a supplier as unreliable or potentially fraudulent.

3. Attention to Detail

What is the 5th word in the 3rd paragraph under the “About the Role” section of this job post?

4. Availability

Are you available to begin a paid trial immediately upon acceptance?

Answer Yes or No.

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Application Questions (Loom Video)

Please answer the following questions verbally.

Do not read from a script.

1. Keepa Walkthrough

Open any Keepa chart and explain why the product is or is not a good purchase based on the data.

2. SellerAmp Test

Walk through exactly how you evaluate a lead inside SellerAmp SAS.

What information do you check first?

What findings would immediately cause you to reject the lead?

3. Judgment Scenario

A lead has:

* 20% ROI
* $12 profit
* 180 monthly sales
* FBA Buy Box
* Walmart as the supplier
* Stable Keepa pricing

However, Walmart entered the Amazon listing twice during the past month and became the lowest-priced seller both times.

Would you purchase this lead? Why or why not?

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Internal Hiring Process (For Employer)

1. Post the Job

Publish this posting on OnlineJobs.ph, Upwork, or your preferred hiring platform.

2. Initial Filter

Immediately reject applications that:

* Do not begin the subject line with “Gatekeeper.”
* Do not include a Loom video.
* Do not end with “Data drives decisions.”

3. Review Text Responses

Verify that the applicant:

* Has genuine purchasing experience.
* Correctly identifies supplier red flags.
* Answers the attention-to-detail question correctly.
* Can begin immediately.

4. Review the Loom Video

Evaluate:

* Spoken English
* Confidence
* Communication ability
* Keepa knowledge
* SellerAmp proficiency
* Purchasing judgment

For the Walmart scenario, the ideal response is to reject the lead or explain why competing directly with Walmart presents an unacceptable pricing risk.

5. Interview

Conduct a brief 15-minute Zoom interview with your top 3–5 candidates to evaluate communication, professionalism, internet reliability, and overall fit.

6. Paid Trial

Hire the strongest candidate and begin the Phase 1 Paid Trial.