PR Project Manager, Global Shopping Events

Amazon is seeking a highly-organized, self-motivated and high-judgment professional to join the team responsible for leading proactive consumer campaigns and cross-Amazon stories focused on seasonal shopping events. This role will function as the Project Manager, responsible for tracking, managing, and organizing the work flow in the U.S, with heavy global coordination, for Amazon's highest profile consumer-shopping events throughout the year. The ideal candidate is able to work autonomously as well as cross-functionally; have experience communicating across multiple teams and/or external agencies; a proven track record identifying efficiencies, reducing siloes, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration; is able to identify and track industry trends and coverage, circulating it with the appropriate stakeholders. This individual should be a self-starter, have an eye for details, and enjoy wrangling multiple people and projects. They"ll display poise and sophistication in rapid-moving situations and become fast friends with a number of internal teams working on events at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Wrangle more than 40 teams across Amazon, communicating event updates, reducing siloes, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration in support of seasonal retail shopping events, with a main focus on the Q4 Holiday season.
• Develop workback timelines for key event tactics; establish a regular cadence of touchpoints to ensure teams are tracking against deadlines.
• Source inputs for external communication materials, including key messaging and deals, routing through internal channels to secure necessary approvals.
• Manage external PR agency on monitoring and reporting guidelines, coverage reports, and end-of campaign metrics.
• Identify key industry trends and announcements, drafting an analysis, and circulating with the appropriate stakeholders.
• Develop briefing documents for internal spokespeople at all levels for external-facing engagements.