Sales Operations Specialist, Amazon

Business Optimization & Sales Support (BOSS)

Salary not provided
Salesforce
Junior and Mid level
London
Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Open for applications

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Salesforce
Junior and Mid level
London

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate should demonstrate broad technical skills, strong financial acumen, deep analytical experience, and a commitment to driving operational excellence
  • The individual must have the ability to communicate effectively across multiple technical and non-technical business units, as well as across other geographies
  • Experience developing and implementing systems/tools utilized for CRM, variable compensation, revenue reporting, forecasting, Salesforce automation, etc
  • Experience developing business analytics or equivalent
  • Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent

Desirable

  • Experience working within a high-growth, technology company
  • Experience in finance, business management and sales operations
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

What the job involves

  • We are seeking a Sales Operations Specialist who possesses a passion for solving business problems through data-driven decision-making
  • The successful candidate will collaborate with Sales Operations leadership to identify and address operational challenges, implement BOSS mechanisms in other geographical regions, support all operational aspects of Annual and In-Year Planning activities, provide revenue routing support, assist with monthly forecasting, respond to operational inquiries from the field through a Live Chat channel, and leverage Generative AI to solve problems or derive insights from data
  • The successful candidate will possess the ability to embrace challenges, work independently, and demonstrate a keen aptitude for learning
  • They will drive the development of simple, scalable solutions to address day-to-day problems, exhibiting exceptional organizational skills and the capacity to communicate results effectively, both in written and verbal form, with clarity and ease of understanding
  • Proactively seeking answers through self-service tools, they will know when to request guidance
  • A passionate and detail-oriented approach, coupled with analytical prowess and problem-solving abilities, will enable them to escalate issues and overcome roadblocks as needed
  • Adept at managing multiple assignments, requests, and processes concurrently, they will prioritize tasks and deliver timely results
  • Identifying commonalities across business needs, they will recommend improvements to accelerate current scaling mechanisms and leverage automation to grow capacity in line with business growth
  • Furthermore, they will be responsible for driving enhancements to reporting tools, methods, and processes utilized by the team, increasing the availability and granularity of actionable data
  • This position will work with the several stakeholders supporting the extended AWS Sales & Marketing organization
  • Support annual planning activities and develop actionable insights
  • Provide enablement and support of specific mechanisms used to manage the Sales and Sales Operations businesses
  • Support key sales support systems/processes required to meet the rapid growth of the business and achieve revenue attainment and market development objectives
  • Create insightful analysis, reports, and dashboards to accelerate information-to-action at scale
  • Develop relationships and processes with sales, sales operations, and other stakeholders to identify and address operational inefficiencies
  • Prepare ad hoc analysis & participate on projects as needed
  • Be an expert in analytics tools required to support Sales and Sales Operations

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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16% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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