Job Description

Brand Specialist

Amazon - Brand Specialist ( Diversity Candidates Only)

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. The Brand Specialist will work on offering dedicated support to top-tiered brands to grow with Amazon by identifying and improving key customer inputs for growth such as content, marketing and stock availability among others. Apart from this, the Brand Specialists will also help brands leverage Amazon's tools and programs to improve on their business inputs.

We are seeking creative, goal-oriented and highly entrepreneurial people to join our exciting and fast-paced team.

Pls note: This is not a marketing or Brand management role. Preferring Category managers/Key Account Managers/Vendor Management background.

Looking for only diversity candidates!!!

About the Role:

- You will focus on delivering 5 core focus areas for the brand: Selection, demand generation, catalogue quality, business advice and availability.

- The person who joins the leadership team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers.

- This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building brand relationships. Some understanding of planning product cycles and selling online is preferred.

- The right candidate will be flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting and have strong analytical skills.

- He or she must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment.

- He should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions.

- The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at: planning and forecasting, and driving an online business.

- The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with some of Amazon's most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups.

Responsibilities:

This person will have responsibility for:

- Building selection: Identify selection gaps. Track brand's offline catalogue to ensure all relevant selection is present on Amazon.

- Demand generation: Responsible for demand generation. This includes working with other members on the category management team to create a marketing calendar based on vendor's objectives

- Business Advice: Support participation of brand in Amazon programs

- Availability: Ensuring continuous availability of products

- Catalogue Quality on Amazon: Ensuring the best input from brand is updated for customer interface on Amazon Detail Pages through perfect Images, Product descriptions, etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive results

- Ability to think strategically and tactically, with excellent attention to detail

- Proven analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills are essential

- Inviting candidates from category management/key account management Or vendor management background.

- A track record of success in past roles

- Candidate must be fluent in English

- Bachelor's degree is required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Strong business judgment with a track record of successful negotiations and overall relationship management.

- Tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment

- Master's degree is preferred

- Experience in customer-facing sectors such as Internet Retail, FMCG is preferred