Sr. Sales Strategy and Planning Manager, Sales Product, Engineering, and Operations
Amazon
5 - 10 years
Bengaluru
Posted: 2/5/2025
Job Description
We seek an analytical thinker who has experience developing, executing, and refining growth strategies for adsales function.
Advertisers leverage Amazon’s data
- driven insights, engaging creative formats, and diverse placements to reach the right audiences to grow their brand.
Our ad sales team informs, educates, and supports advertisers across six continents.
Success in this role requires defining ambitious goals regarding how our sales team can better serve advertisers drawing on best practices across Amazon and the digital advertising industry, developing internal relationships to align product, finance, recruiting, and account management teams on inputs needed to hit these goals, and inspecting and removing blockers as teams execute on these goals.
A qualified candidate thrives in articulating complex concepts to cross functional audiences using internal metrics, voice of the customer, and industry trends to support recommendations.
Amazon’s environment is fast
- paced, rewarding entrepreneurial thinking, flexibility, detail
- orientation, prioritization, enthusiasm, and comfort working across continents and time zones.
Key job responsibilities
Build relationships with product, marketing, finance, and HR leadership to define multi
- year operating plans for global division of ad sales, including revenue, product adoption, and headcount targets
• Own quarterly business reviews, leading finance, sales, and strategy leads in compiling a document for ad sales VPs, guiding deep dives as needed
• Define metrics, tools, and processes needed to set and achieve product adoption, revenue, and sales productivity goals
• Identify gaps to goals, build mechanisms to close, implement change with peers in leadership, monitor impact, and enable ad sales to deliver on ambitious targets
• Design and operationalize workflows to improve productivity and effectiveness of Sales teams
• Develop best practices for improving sales and advertiser success team's productivity and cascade across teams in 15 countries
A day in the life
This role will be evenly split between primary research and analysis, authoring strategy documents, and leading internal review meetings requiring a mastery of influencing senior leaders without direct authority.
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of Microsoft Excel experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent
- Experience analyzing data and presenting insights to the senior leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Salesforce (or other CRM tool) or BI tools
- Experience presenting to senior leadership
- Experience in online advertising industry
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- we
- hire/accommodations for more information.
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About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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