Brand Specialist - Strategic Partners

About Amazon

Amazon offers a variety of products and services through its online marketplace and content distribution platform, including online retail, cloud computing services, consumer electronics, e-book sales, and digital media downloads. Amazon's goal is to make changes that have a positive impact on society at large. This includes using its position as one of the biggest companies in the world to help reduce poverty worldwide through programs such as Amazon Smile.

Your role

As a Brand Specialist, 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 their passion and commitment to serving its 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.

Your responsibilities

This person will have responsibility for:

• Building selection: Identify selection gaps. Track the 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 of the category management team to create a marketing calendar based on the vendor's objectives
• Business Advice: Support participation of a brand in Amazon programs
• Availability: Ensuring continuous availability of products
• Catalogue Quality on Amazon: Ensuring the best input from the brand is updated for customer interface on Amazon Detail Pages through perfect Images, Product descriptions, etc.

Training, development & rotations

Amazon is committed to empowering employees to do their best work – and to do your best work you need to be constantly learning, growing, and becoming a better version of yourself. With the support of the team, Amazon helps you to reach your potential through a variety of offerings, such as:

• A performance philosophy geared toward development, not ratings
• Constantly have to learn. When surrounded by extremely smart people
• Learn what customer-centric means.
• Job rotation programs designed to reignite and broaden your work experience
• Yearly education and training reimbursement to keep your skillset sharp
• Subscriptions to the leading online training platforms for technical and business acumen
• POD (Power of Difference) communities to network, mentor, and grow as leaders.

Salary & benefits

The average annual salary for a Brand Specialist will range from INR 14 to 15 LPA (Source: glass door). The company takes care of you and your loved ones and will support you with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights:

• Paid time off
• Health care plans
• Financial planning and assistance
• Maternity and parental leave
• Employee discount on Amazon merchandise
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Leave programs for military service members, veterans, and their families

Career progression

Amazon believes everyone should have the opportunity to learn new skills and build their career at Amazon or elsewhere. The reason why as part of their mission of being Earth's Best Employer, they have made a $1.2 billion commitment to investing in the upskilling of their employees with free skills training, tuition support programs, a variety of certifications, and more to help improve the abilities of their employees. They also support:

• Higher Education 
• Apprenticeships & Certifications
• Mentorships & Development

Work-life balance

• Work-life balance is rated at 4.4/5.0 (Source: AmbitionBox).
• Work days are usually from Monday to Friday. They have flexible work timings.

When you join Amazon, you are part of a team that works together to create one goal. You create new friendships, and a lot of those are like family. So even when you can’t get away for a while, we make coming to work the best it can be for you – and your work family.

Culture & vibe

• Amazon has a very relaxed but still professional work environment. It has a friendly and fun work culture. It is committed to being diverse, inclusive, and equal in its approach.
• The company believes that incentives are not enough to make workplace culture powerful. It understands that corporate culture and values define a business.
• They have gained an appreciation for their policies and initiatives that reinforce their employees to strive harder for their mission.

About you

As a Brand Specialist, the desired qualification and key skills required are:

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
• A track record of success in past roles
• The 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
• Experience in customer-facing sectors such as Retail and FMCG is preferred

How to apply

To apply for this role, simply click on the "Apply on employer site" button below, which navigates to the career page where the application can be submitted.

The basic recruitment process includes,

• Online Application
• Phone Interview
• In-Person Interview