Principal Agency Development Manager

Amazon ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Location - London Salary - competitive Posting date - 8 May 2020 Closing date - 5 June 2020 - Sponsoring Entity: Amazon Title: Senior Agency Development Manager Main duties and responsibilities of the role At Amazon Advertising (AA), we create and deliver advertising solutions across Amazon's rapidly developing range of products and services. Our ideas are executed across desktop, mobile, OTT, Kindle Fire devices and our programmatic ad products - always with the aim of informing and enriching the customer's experience. AA is a key strategic focus for Amazon and is in a rapid and exciting growth phase. In order to accelerate the next phase of AA's development, we are committed to transforming the depth, scale and ambition of our partnerships with major media agencies and have created a dedicated team across the world to deliver this vision at a local and regional level. This is a fantastic opportunity for a senior business development leader to join the team at an early stage to shape and drive AA's strategic agency partnerships. Displaying a consultative style, candidates must be excellent communicators, experienced at operating to C-Level with agencies and advertisers, and able to earn trust with senior stakeholders across other Amazon teams. In addition, candidates should be comfortable with complex data sets and have the ability to invent and simplify for customers. A strong knowledge of the programmatic trading landscape is important. Candidates will be self-motivated, happy to work autonomously and highly goal-oriented in order to contribute to AA's ambitious growth plans. Develop and execute a customer-led strategy for growth for media agencies at local and regional level - including close collaboration with local AA leadership Build and manage a detailed engagement strategy, including local and regional business reviews Develop commercial structures to create incremental opportunities for growth across traded and programmatic products Lead education and enablement of key agency functions including delivery of agency-wide events Identify opportunities for agency collaboration around large-scale creative solutions - including pro-active engagement with creative agencies Liaise with global teams to identify transformative opportunities for agency partnerships offered by AA's products