Senior Video Sales Specialist, EU5, Adapt

Amazon Online UK Limited; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital advertising seeks a Senior Video Sales Specialist to enhance its Global Video Advertising & Partnerships team. The role focuses on driving revenue within the EU5 countries, including London, leveraging expert knowledge in streaming sales. This position involves frequent travel and collaboration with various internal stakeholders to deliver innovative advertising solutions for high-value customers. Suitable candidates will have proven sales experience and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Streaming TV sales and/or business development.
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal).
• Fluency in English and one additional language (Italian, French, Spanish or German).

Responsibilities

• Act as a video ambassador and expert to customers.
• Drive revenue through specialist knowledge and strategic initiatives.
• Deliver pitches and strategic work to exceed sales goals.

Skills

Sales Expertise

Communication Skills

Analytical Abilities

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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Amazon Online UK Limited

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

22.06.2025

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06.08.2025

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Job Description:

Amazon Adapt is hiring a Senior Video Sales Specialist, EU5 to service Amazon Ads’ Global Video Advertising & Partnerships organisation.
This role will provide coverage for Video Sales Specialists during leaves of absence across the EU5 countries: United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. As the role could cover these locales (UK, DE, FR, IT, ES) there will be an expectation to travel at least one week per month.

The position can be based in any of the following hubs: London, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Milan, Paris, or Madrid.

The Video Sales Specialist (VSS) is an established industry specialist across streaming and video and a crucial contributor to the success of Amazon's video advertising solutions - spanning Prime Video and Live Sport, Twitch, OLV and 3P Video.

The VSS team is part of the Global Video Advertising and Partnership Team (GVAP). Its goal is to deliver video revenue targets through the support of vertical sales teams by promoting Amazon’s video products to drive adoption. As domain specialists, VSS is responsible for providing scalable insight, case studies, and strategic pitches tailored to the unique needs of UK customers. VSS is a customer facing unit (70% of time), not as end-to-end front-line sellers, but as specialists equipped to address complex objections empowering sales through expert knowledge and strategies. This approach fosters a universally deeper understanding of Amazon video products, and through collaboration with the GTM team, it ensures that our go-to-market strategies are fine-tuned to the nuances of EU locales, accelerating product adoption and establishing Amazon as video thought-leaders and a centre of excellence.

Key job responsibilities
This Adapt VSS role will live within the Amazon Adapt sales team, reporting to Head of Adapt Global Sales and partnering with Adapt peers who are deployed across the Amazon Ads organisation. The VSS is primarily a customer facing role tasked with driving revenue through specialist knowledge and strategic initiatives. Working with multiple stakeholders including GTM, Large Customer Sales, Product and Finance they are sought after partners who enable the closing of business with high value customers against specific accounts. They are also ambassadors for Amazon Ads Video representing Amazon at industry events.

A day in the life
- Act as a video ambassador and expert to customers and the Amazon Ads sales team
- Deliver pitches and strategic work to drive revenue and exceed goals
- Work with internal stakeholders to innovate on behalf of customers
- Utilize Sales CRM and other mechanisms to track pertinent account information and sales progress
- Drive the overall vision of Amazon video products.
- Work with GTM to develop the end-to-end strategy for positioning, pricing, packaging, and planning of video advertising offerings
- Capture customer and partner feedback to drive video solutions
- Engage with internal cross-functional teams including product, GTM, AEs and AMs to execute successfully on the needs of our customers.
- Represent Amazon at one-to-many events
- Deliver training initiatives to raise sales competency

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

* Proven experience in Streaming TV sales and/or business development
* Experience managing internal and external relationships with senior stakeholders, including Sales, Account Management, and Product groups
* Experience building and deploying GTM strategies, with an emphasis on packaging, positioning and messaging
* Demonstrated ability to close sales and generate revenue, with a focus on delivering long term customer driven outcomes
* Manage customer objection handling and suggest alternative solutions as necessary to maximize the partnership opportunity
* Excellent communication skills (written & verbal), including the ability to present complex topics both in person, over the phone, and through concise document writing
* Demonstrated analytical abilities and confidence in the use of data
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent
* Fluency in English and one the following languages (Italian, French, Spanish or German)
* Flexible to travel for at least one week per month.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

* Experience in working in product facing role or working directly with product teams
* Develop product and sales strategies that uniquely position products in market
* Experience selling nascent products and/or services
* Experience dealing with results, metrics and data management and a desire to create and build new processes
* Experience and success in negotiating complex deals with customers and partners
* Experience in generating and delivering big ideas that deliver new ad revenue streams
* Demonstrated ability to drive simpler and scaled workflows for internal teams
* Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously while defining and delivering priorities amidst ambiguity