Do you have a passion to engage with leading ad measurement solution providers to influence on our future advertising business plans Do you enjoy working with partners to translate data and tech advancements into functional information that can help us revise a business strategy product roadmap or sales tactic Do you have curiosity to produce systems and mechanisms to expose business trends and turn insights into opportunities to better serve our customers
Amazon Advertising is seeking a highly capable selfdirected Business Development Manager to help drive growth for Amazon Advertising.
The Amazon Advertising Measurement team is seeking a Business Development Manager (BDM) to work with our Product and Engineering teams to bring their product benefits to our customers via support from our partners and vendors. The BDM will support Engineering Product and Marketing teams to deliver essential benefits to our advertising customers by building buying or partnering with external entities.
The Measurement team aims to track evaluate and accurately explain what is happening in the advertising measurement space. We focus on understanding the breadth and depth of functionality offered by Amazon Advertising; rapidly analyzing key market activity to provide Sales Marketing and PR teams with tools and guidance to help customers.
The ideal candidate for the BDM position will be an individual who is customerobsessed comfortable working with a highlevel of ambiguity and possess strong communication skills. Ideal candidates have experience in researching identifying and vetting growth (business and tech) opportunities and efficiently managing premium partners in both mature and emerging territories. They are comfortable working crossfunctionally with marketing product engineering finance legal and customer service to drive great customer experience for our partners. They have advertising measurement experience in Video and TV.
The candidate will exhibit a strategic mindset focusing on longterm benefits for Amazon and our Advertising customers and partners with strong analytical and interpersonal skills. The role will require expertise both in internal team project management as well as working with leaders at major external organizations to strengthen partner relations and obsess over customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
Be a trusted consultant to internal customers (e.g. Product) and strategic advertisers by applying partner and vendor management expertise seeking out options to their needs analyzing data to inform our negotiating positions and translating them to relevant insights and action plans.
Generate meaningful market and partner insights to engage with product sales engineering and marketing teams and support key business strategies.
Successfully leverage key industry contacts and relationships (as well as research instruments) to identify and progress business opportunities.
Effectively communicate insights partner/vendor updates and recommendations to internal stakeholders to make informed business decisions.
Negotiate commercial terms with Amazon Ads
A day in the life
You will work crossfunctionally with team members from Product Engineering Marketing and Corporate Development team members to identify and report meaningful market trends that will inform our future offerings. This may require engagement across Amazon teams (e.g. Prime Video Studios Twitch) as well as subject matter experts from external vendors (such as Nielsen ComScore Samba Gartner) and advertising partners and customers.
About the team
Amazon Advertising Measurement team innovates and set the conditions for our partners and customers to get the most out of their Amazon Advertising experiences. We work with the worlds leading Advertising Tech and Measurement partners to enable these solutions to a large base of customers.
Experience in a professional field or military
Experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading crossfunctional groups to orchestrate and successfully complete deals
Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
Experience with business development partnership management or sourcing new business
Experience in developing negotiating and executing business agreements
Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units
Experience working with technical and product stakeholders to define requirements prioritize features and influence product roadmaps
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