Account Executive, Amazon Ads, Growth Advertising Sales
DESCRIPTION
Would you like to become part of a highly innovative and rapidly growing team?
Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a wide range of advertising solutions with the goal of helping shoppers discover anything they want to buy. We work with brands, agencies and entrepreneurs to reach Amazon shoppers through strategic, highly targeted self-service advertising products. Our ad solutions—including sponsored ads, display, video —leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a dynamic team working to grow Amazon’s advertising solutions with a focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.
Amazon Ads is seeking an Account Executive to join our Global Growth Sales (GGS) team, focused primarily on growing Sponsored Ads. This role will be focused on managing a large set of small to medium-sized clients and prospects across different industries and product categories. The Account Executive will be responsible for selling our cost-per-click advertising solutions (Sponsored Ads) and some display products, helping clients scale their business on Amazon in the UK and EU markets.
The ideal candidate will have sales experience, preferably within the digital space. A consultative selling style is desired, coupled with analytical skills and the ability to build rapport with clients across a large book of business.
Key job responsibilities
-Generate advertising revenue through calls, video conferencing or in-person meetings. Drive sales in a new business environment and retain and grow revenue from existing advertisers.
-Understand Amazon's advertising opportunities and tools to help build and optimize relevant advertising campaigns for our advertisers and deliver the highest level of sales and customer service to them.
-Partner closely with internal partner teams such as retail, marketplace and advertiser success teams to grow our advertisers.
-Be open to innovate in your role, leveraging personalization technologies and mechanisms to reach and educate advertisers at scale.
-Utilize sales CRM tools to track all pertinent account information and sales progress. Forecast and prioritize tasks to achieve quarterly revenue and activation goals.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Sales experience in Ads, Tech or Consulting
- Analytical skills & ability to work with data
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven track record of reaching and exceeding sales revenue goals via new and existing business
- Amazon/Google PPC Solutions Knowledge
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