Senior Solutions Manager, Amazon Ads

Our overall mission is simple: We want Amazon to be the place where our customers can find, discover and buy anything online. Whatever our customers want, we will find the means to deliver it. With your help, Amazon will continue to enable people to discover new worlds. This is your chance to make history.

In this role, you will be driving pioneer custom advertising initiatives for our key EU brands from start to finish. You will identify customer engagement opportunities across Amazon’s customer journeys and partner closely with creative, product and account experts as the Project Lead. As Solutions Manager, you will develop and manage innovative solutions at scale that set the stage for superior advertiser performance while delighting our customers. This is an opportunity for you to join one of Amazon’s key businesses, to thrive in a start-up environment that drives innovation across the advertising organization. We are looking for someone who is ready to roll-up their sleeves and join a tightly knit team that is tackling really exciting and challenging projects.

Key job responsibilities:

• Technically validate and thoroughly scope a variety of different customer experiences, providing in-depth functional requirements and timelines, aligned with creative, technical, legal teams, testing teams, etc.
• Project manage complex campaigns from the conceptual phase to go live, utilizing various project management methodologies to ensure success.
• Constantly develop and drive new advertising product innovations that are outside of our standard product card by engaging with customers, creative teams, and management to deliver unique solutions for our strategic advertising partners.
• Manage ad hoc requests for new advertising concepts that can be delivered rapidly in a quick and thorough manner.
• Manage client meetings to assess goals, objectives, and requests in terms of advertising solutions to drive forward required solutions.
• Work cross-functionally to manage bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints, and maximize business benefit.
• Develop overall solution plans that meet operational requirements, project manage the execution of custom advertising solutions, and ensure stakeholders have all necessary inputs.
• Present confidently to Amazon senior management, external clients, and other large audiences.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Several years of experience in Project Management, ideally within advertising, e-commerce, or the digital space.
• Thrive on building big ideas and delivering first-to-market solutions that connect advertisers with their core customers across Amazon.
• Apply sound business judgment as well as the ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, problem-solve, scope technical requirements, and prioritize.
• Strong communication skills are crucial, with proven ability to influence others internally and externally, and experience partnering with a worldwide sales organization.
• Understanding of technical integration of ideas, and the ability to build relationships with development roles and designers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree or MBA, Project Management certification (PMP, Prince2).
• You are renowned as a very strong innovation driver with a reputation for your project management structure and customer-centric approach.
• You possess a proven track record of developing non-standard advertising solutions from scratch or solution-oriented products for the customer.
• You thrive in a start-up environment, can deal with ambiguity, and provide project timelines and technical solutions arising from ideation.