Best Practices, Business Skills, Channel Marketing, Conferences, Consumer Branding, Consumer Goods and Services, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Customer/Client Research, Field Sales, Identify Issues, Kindle, Marketing, Media Players, Merchandising, Metrics, Offline Marketing, Performance Metrics, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Product Management, Product Support, Retail, Retail Channel, Retail Management, Revenue Growth, Root Cause Analysis, Sales, Sales Support, Sales Tools, Sales Training, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Streaming Technology, Team Building, Time Management, Trend Analysis, Willing to Travel, eBook Readers
Please note this role IS NOT remote, but rather not tied to an Amazon corporate office
As a Market Manager, you will own a territory of offline retail stores, managing the Amazon in-store experience and merchandising. You serve as the Amazon expert, relying heavily on your ability to influence without authority to drive project deliverables. You will execute and manage in-store product transitions and retailer communications, while collecting market insights. You will train sales associates and support staff on Amazon Devices & Services, positively impacting the customer experience and indirectly impacting sales and advocacy metrics for your territory. You May be asked to participate in overnight travel in order to execute store visits in neighboring markets, and for team meetings (conferences, trainings, team building events, etc.)
Market Managers must be able to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends, 40 hours per week.
As a part of the Offline Marketing and Sales team, you will support a variety of products and services, including Echo, Ring, Amazon Smart Fire TV & Streaming Media Players, Fire Tablets, Kindle eReaders, Blink, eero, and more. Our customers inspire us, and they've been at the heart of how we invent and evolve our products, services, displays, customer experiences and more. You will be the face of Amazon in offline retail accounts for both staff and customers, and as a team we strive to provide the best customer experience possible.
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company, Earth's best employer, and Earth's safest place to work. The devices business is one of the most innovative and fastest growing at Amazon, and every day, we invent on behalf of our customers, partners, and communities.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
- Ensure the Amazon in-store experience and merchandising is properly implemented and maintained across retailers within your direct team and area per provided standards of execution
- Educate store associates on the value of Amazon, Ring, Blink, and eero devices and services in small and large group settings
- Conduct sales and training during large scale events based on program / market needs
- Manage weekly travel to a large territory of retailers utilizing a variety of sales tools and store profiles to impact sales and brand advocacy
- Manage travel and work expenses
- Use business acumen and critical thinking skills to identify trends, drive root cause analyses, and resolve issues in store operations in stores across your market
- Collect business and market insights from consumers and store associates to help influence product, feature, and channel marketing decisions
- Develop professional relationships with key internal and external stakeholders i.e. Area Managers, Regional Managers, General Managers, etc.
- Drive KPIs to increase sales through the offline retail channel
- Achieve goals in the business areas (advocacy, compliance, metrics, trainings, coverage, team, org).
- Complete daily in-store reports to document visits, including submitting digital photos
- Effectively install, troubleshoot, and maintain a variety of Amazon, Ring, Blink, and eero display devices and fixtures in various national retail stores
- Delegate and influence to drive exceptional results in your market, including executing standard operating procedures, identifying areas of improvement, implementing solutions, and providing ongoing feedback to store managers, regional leaders, and corporate stakeholders
- Invent, simplify and share best practices
- Manage in store product transitions and retailer communications
- Provide clear, concise, accurate, and timely communication (verbal and written) to the right internal and external stakeholders with national impact
A day in the life
Market Managers rely heavily on influence without authority to drive project deliverables, improve brand advocacy, and improve the customer experience at retail stores. They foster relationships with key internal and external stakeholders at the market and district level. They serve as the Amazon, Ring, eero, and Blink product and services expert, facilitating group training events for sales associates on how to sell Amazon's wide portfolio of devices and services. Market Managers work closely with retail partners and customers to gather insights in order to improve products and services and drive decisions at the corporate level. They ensure the Amazon in-store experience and merchandising is implemented to standard across retailers for all Amazon, Ring, eero, and Blink devices and services.
About the team
The Amazon Offline Sales & Marketing team is responsible for selling Amazon devices into physical retailers across the United States and Canada. Market Managers lead sales and marketing initiatives for Amazon and its branded products in retail locations. They are responsible for the in-store experience, fostering relationships, training at the store/district level, and promoting Amazon and its brands through customer interactions. Market Managers are focused on increasing sales of Amazon and its branded products in retail stores and educating store associates and consumers on the value of Amazon devices, accessories and Amazon in general.
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