SBS-Brand Manager, Home Improvement

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Brand Specialist to enhance brand relationships and drive online business success. This role involves identifying selection gaps, generating demand, and ensuring product availability while maintaining catalogue quality on Amazon. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, a proactive mindset, and a proven track record in account management and project execution. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact the brand's presence in the market and help shape the future of online retail. If you're ready to take ownership and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in account management or program management.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to drive results.

Responsibilities

• Identify selection gaps and track brand’s offline catalogue.
• Generate demand through marketing calendars based on vendor objectives.
• Ensure continuous availability and catalogue quality on Amazon.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Account Management

Project Management

Market Research

Communication Skills

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Education

Master's Degree

Job description

About the Role:

As a Brand Specialist, you will focus on delivering 5 core focus areas for the brand: Selection, demand generation, catalogue quality, business advice, and availability.

The person who joins the leadership team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building brand relationships. Some understanding of planning product cycles and selling online is preferred. The right candidate will be flexible, action and results-oriented, self-starting, and have strong analytical skills. He or she must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results, and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment. He should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at planning and forecasting, and driving an online business. The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with some of Amazon’s most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups.

Responsibilities

This person will have responsibility for:

1. Building selection: Identify selection gaps. Track brand’s offline catalogue to ensure all relevant selection is present on Amazon.
2. Demand generation: Responsible for demand generation. This includes working with other members on the category management team to create a marketing calendar based on vendor's objectives.
3. Business Advice: Support participation of brand in Amazon programs.
4. Availability: Ensuring continuous availability of products.
5. Catalogue Quality on Amazon: Ensuring the best input from brand is updated for customer interface on Amazon Detail Pages through perfect Images, Product descriptions, etc.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- 3+ years of market research analyst, product manager, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of doing one of several roles: quantitative/financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, pricing, marketing or e-commerce experience
- Master's degree
- Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of doing one of several roles: management consulting, investment banking analyst/associate, or brand manager role at leading consumer packaged goods company experience
- Experience in financial analysis, retail buying, retail planning & allocation, product/project management, marketing, business development, consulting, negotiation or supply chain