PR Project Manager, Global Shopping Events

Location: New York

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DESCRIPTION:

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 PR 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 key seasonal retail moments-like Prime Day, Back-to-School, and Holiday.

• 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
- Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience leading large projects and facilitate group meetings
- Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
- Experience working with global teams and diverse partners
- Can manage a high volume of requests and competing deadlines
- Outstanding attention to detail and bias for action.
- Thrives in a collaborative environment and is willing to roll up their sleeves to get the job done.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $68,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $147,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information,  please visit  This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.]]>