Strategy and Operations Manager, Enterprise Marketing , Amazon Ads
DESCRIPTION
Come build the future with us! What unites all Amazonians (across teams and geographies) is that we are all striving to delight our customers and make their lives easier. In pursuit of delighting our customers, Amazonians have developed many products and services that have transformed the way our customers live their lives and run their businesses. Together we are building the future, one innovative product, service, and idea at a time.
Re-imagine advertising with Amazon Ads. Amazon Ads is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for large brands, small businesses, partners (agencies and advertising software companies), and publishers. Our ad solutions – including sponsored ads, display, video, audio, and custom ads – leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase sales, and more.
We are seeking a brand marketer to join our team and lead operations and strategy for our Enterprise Marketing organization. In this role, you will dive deeply into data and results to best help shape and recommend our areas of focus and investment moving forward, while also unearthing efficiencies and opportunities for expansion in forward looking plans. You will provide business-critical insights using analytics, and partner closely with our measurement team to ensure that our metrics are streamlined and reporting on the most important results to best understand impact of our investment and ROI on our initiatives globally. The ability to not only collect data but also to translate it into actionable recommendations is essential. You will also be responsible for finding operational efficiencies across a global team of marketers and to map out cross-functional alignment for goals and execution against marketing plans. This role will bridge the gap between the setting organizational priorities and developing actionable marketing plans to execute against them. This role will work cross-functionally and most closely with our measurement team, finance partners, and brand marketers across roles.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include:
- Increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of key decisions and alignment towards annual goals
- Developing mechanisms to reduce churn and automate reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
- Defining key metrics for tracking performance. Will lead analysis and translate quantitative and qualitative data into actionable insights. Will build mechanisms for communication of key findings to leadership and marketing managers across the team.
- Delivering data-driven strategic narratives to influence leadership for alignment around recommended strategies. Determine actionable plans and roadmaps, align cross-functional stakeholders, and lead successful implementation of large and complex change initiatives.
- Managing the annual planning process to support team operations, including budget and headcount
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of professional, non-internship marketing experience
- Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements for the business
- Experience presenting metrics and progress to goal to senior leadership
- Ability to translate quantitative results into qualitative strategic recommendations
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience developing cross-functional relationships with product, consumer research, and marketing teams to develop strategy based on insights that drive impactful marketing initiatives
- Experience managing multiple projects and meeting aggressive deadlines
- Cross-functional experience across Marketing, Training, Research, Measurement, Finance, and Sales
- Ability to make ruthless prioritization decisions to allocate limited resources to high impact initiatives
- Entrepreneurial spirit/ability to try different things in an ambiguous environment with minimal direction
- Fanatical attention to detail
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $108,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.