At Amazon we’re on the lookout for the curious, those who think big and accept challenges, willing to come build the future with us.
Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) is a paid B2B service that aims to help strategic brands partner with Amazon to grow their business. As a Brand Specialist, you will gain 360-degree exposure to all areas of e-commerce at a Pan-EU level, owning the relationship with your brand and structuring with them a short- and long-term strategy oriented at brand’s growth and Customer Satisfaction. You will act as consultant driving selection and promotional activities, monitor and work on success metrics on a daily basis, and ensure the brand’s experience of the AVS demonstrates our customer obsession. Furthermore, you will be working together with different stakeholders to implement new ideas and processes within Amazon EU, such as (Product) Category Management, Supply Chain management, Finance and Marketing; developing your skills and future career. Your role will focus on four crucial business areas:
Key job responsibilities
- Core Service: Use your knowledge in deep data analytics to identify EU industry opportunities and provide recommendations to improve overall business performance through the use of Amazon programs (i.e.: Amazon business) to drive long term benefit
- Availability & Operational Excellence: Drive EU supply-chain operational excellence initiatives by reducing costs, defects, lead times, and by managing stock in our fulfilment centre.
- Promotion & Funding: Provide recommendations for the brand’s marketing and advertising campaigns to promote new products, increase traffic and improve conversion. Plan, implement and manage promotional activities for Amazon events such as Prime Day where you will help your brands to generate sales. On top of that, you will drive brand weeks with you vendors and work closely with Amazon Advertising to explore further marketing opportunities we have.
- Selection & IDQ: Help grow selection by managing the launch of new products and improving discoverability. You will identify product gaps, onboard the new products and be responsible for the ramp up of these products, as well as improve the customer journey on Amazon (i.e.: performing walk the store session, competitor benchmarking, create enhanced content on detail pages).
A day in the life
Interested in how a day in life of Brand Specialist looks like? Check out the following videos to gain more insight into the role and team.
1) Brand Specialists at Amazon - Jump Right In
2) Brand Specialists at Amazon. What do they do?
About the team
Could you embrace the challenge of being a Brand Specialist at Amazon? Are you looking for a diverse and international environment? Amazon offers you the chance to build up your own network on a European level by participating in community events such as team activities or by joining some of our affinity groups. Being a Brand Specialist is the starting point to accelerating your professional growth within a global leader in e-commerce. Come build the future with us!
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree preferably in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Marketing or a similar program
- Minimum of 12 months professional experience after graduation in Sales, Buying, Project Management, Supply Chain, Consulting, Finance, Account Management or Marketing.
- Fluent written and verbal communication in both German and English (minimum C1 level)
- Knowledge in MS Office programs (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills
- Knowledge of another European language (preferably French, Italian or Spanish)
- Basic knowledge of SQL or website content management systems
- Confident in communicating internally and externally
- Planning, prioritisation and time-management skills
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