Global Platform Lead - Amazon

Location: New York
* Cultivate deep knowledge of Amazon’s products, industry, challenges, and opportunities to provide insightful guidance and solutions to the broader dentsu business to unlock partnership potential.
* Forge strong connections between dentsu practice areas and agency brands to align efforts in leveraging Amazon’s capabilities to deliver best-in-class, end-to-end Google/Amazon use cases.
* Coordinate cross-functional / cross-practice stakeholders to deliver comprehensive solutions that bring together the advertising and tech sides of the business to address needs of dentsu, clients and Amazon.
* Unearth client learnings/insights, synthesize, and report back to Amazon for review, consideration, and implementation.

- ** ENABLE – drive scaled internal education and proficiency across Amazon ecosystem of products, capabilities, and solutions.**
* ** Deliverables:**    + Socialize Amazon expertise and support in the scaled upskilling of the dentsu network to reduce complexity and drive innovation.
+ Ensure local market teams have clear view of the value output from the partnership and that local needs are being considered in partner strategy development.
+ Champion best practice, educational ambitions, and creation of industry-leading case studies to promote externally and across dentsu.
+ Collate a consolidated view of partner spend and opportunity across the network to help identify gaps/opportunities and deploy strategies in response.
* ** Outputs:**    + Develop global dentsu / Amazon learning roadmap/curriculum, annually.
+ Develop always on partnership hub to house materials, creating increased visibility and access for teams, inclusive of case studies, partnership benefits, testing opportunities, partner updates/roadmap, etc.
* 15+ years of experience in media& marketing landscape.
* Deep knowledge of and experience with integrated media strategies and planning.
* Solid understanding of client needs and how teams latch onto new products/opportunities.
* Clear vision of the media/ad-tech landscape, across both “legacy partners” as well as new/emerging tech.
* Proven leadership skills and ability to interact and influence at, all levels of the organization, fostering strong cross-functional collaboration, teamwork and results.
* Experience in developing solutions to support the sale of new services to clients.
* Commitment to delivering media solutions and the ability to align team members behind said solutions.
* Desire to learn new skills and link different aspects of the business.
* Ability to think strategically, not just tactically; someone who can see the big picture but can articulate the all-important detail.
* Exceptional presentation skills, written and oral communication.
* Passionate about driving business forward and a team player.
* Has participated in new business development and pitches.
* Client-facing experience.
* Strong managerial skills and the ability to mentor and upskill others
* Willingness to travel for business
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