We seek an analytical thinker who has experience developing executing and refining growth strategies to lead a newly created ad sales strategy and planning function. Advertisers leverage Amazons datadriven insights engaging creative formats and diverse placements to reach the right audiences to grow their brand. Our ad sales team informs educates and supports advertisers across six continents. Success in this role requires defining ambitious goals regarding how our sales team can better serve advertisers drawing on best practices across Amazon and the digital advertising industry developing internal relationships to align product finance recruiting and account management teams on inputs needed to hit these goals and inspecting and removing blockers as teams execute on these goals.
A qualified candidate thrives in articulating complex concepts to cross functional audiences using internal metrics voice of the customer and industry trends to support recommendations. Amazons environment is fastpaced rewarding entrepreneurial thinking flexibility detailorientation ruthless prioritization enthusiasm and comfort working across continents and time zones.
Key job responsibilities Build relationships with product marketing finance and HR leadership to define multiyear operating plans for global division of ad sales including revenue product adoption and headcount targets Own quarterly business reviews leading finance sales and strategy leads in compiling a document for ad sales VPs guiding deep dives as needed Define metrics tools and processes needed to set and achieve product adoption revenue and sales productivity goals Identify gaps to goals build mechanisms to close implement change with peers in leadership monitor impact and enable ad sales to deliver on ambitious targets Develop best practices for improving sales productivity and cascade across teams in 15 countries
A day in the life This role will be evenly split between primary research and analysis authoring strategy documents and leading internal review meetings requiring a mastery of influencing senior leaders without direct authority.
10 years of Microsoft Excel experience Bachelors degree or equivalent Experience defining refining and implementing sales processes procedures and policies or equivalent Experience analyzing data and presenting insights to the senior leadership
Experience using Salesforce (or other CRM tool) or BI tools Experience presenting to senior leadership Experience in online advertising industry
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