Sr Partner Development Manager, Amazon Ads (Agency Milano

Sr Partner Development Manager, Amazon Ads (Agency
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Fluent in Italian and English

- BA/BS Required, MBA is a plus

- Business Development or equivalent experience, including sourcing new business

- Outstanding MS Office skills: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint

- Demonstrated high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

- Ability to identify and implement growth mechanisms/initiatives based data analyses and influencing key stakeholders

Job summary

We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising.

If you are interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you have come to the right place.

Our team is focused on helping external partners (media agencies) better serve the needs of advertisers across Amazon through strategic engagements.

As a Sr Partner Development Manager you will develop and grow relationships with external partners and their teams.

Leveraging your partner knowledge and Amazon's products, you will develop a plan to help partners grow by supporting advertisers evolving needs.

The plan will be executed in coordination with Amazon teams across product, marketing, sales and program management.

Our group functions as a start-up within Amazon, and offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you'll be at the center of Amazon innovation.

You will have a direct impact on your customers by making it easy and efficient for these partners to help Amazon sellers advertise their products, increase sales and promote their brands through Amazon Advertising.

Key job responsibilities

- Manage and grow relationships with existing portfolio of partners

- Actively source new business to create a partner portfolio by researching, contacting and vetting partners.

- Capture Voice of Partner and quantify impact of feature requests to feed into product roadmap and influence prioritization of product development

- Effectively manage C-level relationships

- Organize and lead Quarterly Business Reviews with external partners

- Lead joint business planning and strategy with external and internal partners

- Act as single point of contact that can effectively help partners manage and grow their business on Amazon

- Identify opportunities to enable business development and engage with marketing teams to execute on these opportunities

- Influence partners to adopt critical and valuable advertising features

- Work with technical account management, sales, development, and product teams to identify and solve issues blocking advertiser performance

- 8+ years of professional work experience

- 8+ years of experience developing, leading, negotiating and executing corporate and/or business transactions

- Passion for eCommerce and/or digital marketing and a track record of delivering outstanding results

- MBA or other related Master's degree

- Proven ability to think strategically and execute methodically

- Demonstrated high attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations

- Superior verbal and written communication skills as demonstrated by experience

- An entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for having fun