Senior Agency Development Manager, Commerce, UK Agency Sales, Amazon Ads

Amazon Online UK Limited; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading digital advertising team as an Agency Development Manager in London. This role focuses on building strategic relationships with agencies to drive advertising revenue, requiring strong communication skills and a proven track record in commerce strategy. Lead initiatives to enhance customer engagement and develop comprehensive training programs.

Qualifications

• Agency and/or Commerce experience required.
• Expertise in bidding and search management.
• Proven track record of developing go-to-market strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop customer-led strategy for ad growth.
• Manage engagement strategy with Commerce leaders.
• Execute cross-team project plans.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Data-led Decision Making

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22.06.2025

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06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Amazon Ads is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers and agencies. Our full funnel ad solutions—including display, video, and custom ads—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to engage intended audiences throughout their daily journeys. With a range of flexible pricing and buying models, including self-service, managed service, and programmatic ad buying, these solutions help businesses build brand awareness, increase product sales, and more. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

The Agency Development Manager (ADM) for Commerce is responsible for relationships with Commerce leaders at our largest agency customers. They are tasked with accelerating Amazon Advertising revenue through increasing the scope of services that agencies offer to clients. This includes agencies running full-funnel advertising campaigns for brands as well as offering retail (in addition to advertising) services. Candidates must be excellent communicators, experienced in operating at all levels of matrixed organisations, strategic thinkers with the ability to earn the trust of partners internally and externally. Candidates must make data-led decisions, achieve ambitious goals, and have the ability to “think big” while prioritising and delivering leading experiences to Amazon Advertising’s media agency customers. ADMs play a critical role in arming agencies with the knowledge and tools to develop and sell through Amazon-focused ideas to their clients. You will be accountable for strategic alliances, education and ideation directly with media agency customers.


Key job responsibilities
- Develop and execute a customer-led strategy for ad growth
- Build and manage a detailed engagement strategy with Commerce leaders at Holding Companies
- Identify and define Commerce incentives for inclusion in joint business plans
- Liaise with global Commerce leads to scale
- Commerce incentives globally and ensure consistent high standards of Commerce programs
- Assist Holding Companies with their go-to-market, frameworks and auditing processes to deliver holistic Retail + ads solutions to endemic clients
- Develop scaled training programs
- Act as a thought leader and influencer within Amazon Ads
- Create and execute cross-team project plans
- Build and execute a detailed engagement strategy

A day in the life
Overseeing key customer meetings, running group presentations, building joint business plans and escalating blockers at the account level to agency leadership

About the team
Our team build long-lasting partnerships with our agency customers through the development of commercial and servicing plans covering our entire offering. We aim to increase the number of brands using Amazon, and the diversity of products and tools they use to drive revenue growth and advocacy with our agency customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Agency and/or Commerce experience
- Expertise in bidding and search management
- A self-starter with demonstrated ability to think strategically about sales, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions
- A proven track record in developing and launching go-to-market strategies and learning agendas
- Proven track record of working with customers to introduce new products, develop market fit, and help the broader organisation scale sales of the solution
- Self starter and strive with emerging tech and services

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- A proven track record in driving Commerce strategies
- Knowledge of digital media (e.g. DSPs, programmatic media, premium digital video, performance advertising)
- Knowledge of the Amazon stack (Amazon Marketing Cloud, attribution) and AWS services
- Knowledge of 3rd party Commerce platforms
- Understanding of Vendor / Seller models and implication with advertising
- Proven track record of planning and buying via different retail marketplace