Senior Sales Manager, Adapt Rapid Response, Amazon Ads

Amazon Online Italy S.R.L.; Lombardia; Ibrido; EUR 50.000 - 70.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading international advertising firm is seeking a Senior Sales Manager to join its European team based in Italy. The role involves generating advertising revenue, maintaining client relationships, and supporting ad businesses across EU5, requiring significant travel. The ideal candidate should have experience in sales, excellent communication skills, and be fluent in both English and Italian. This is a permanent position with a focus on driving revenue opportunities.

Competenze

• Experience closing sales and generating revenue.
• Strong negotiation skills and relationship management.
• Experience in technology-driven sales environments.

Mansioni

• Ensure seamless sales support across multiple teams.
• Travel primarily within Italy to engage with customers.
• Generate advertising revenue via direct sales.
• Build and maintain relationships with agencies and advertisers.

Conoscenze

Building client relationships

Closing sales

Excellent communication skills

Adaptability to new technologies

Business Fluent in English and Italian

Formazione

Bachelors’ degree in Marketing or Advertising

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

Amazon Ads is dedicated to driving measurable outcomes for brand advertisers, agencies, authors, and entrepreneurs. Our ad solutions—including Twitch and Prime Video ADs—leverage Amazon’s innovations and insights to find, attract, and 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.

This role sits within the Adapt team—a pioneering team that’s redefining how we approach business. Different from traditional teams within Amazon Ads, Adapt combines human expertise with AI-enhanced analytics to revolutionize business continuity and growth. Our team members are agile professionals who thrive on variety, rotating across strategic assignments to address business-critical needs. This innovative model accelerates professional growth through diverse exposure to multiple facets of Amazon Ads, while leveraging technology to enhance customer value delivery.

Responsibilities

Key job responsibilities

Adapt is seeking a Senior Sales Manager to join our European team - This is a permanent position.

This role will be highly agile and fungible, and will see the individual owning deliverables across multiple teams at once. This role will join a new team that focuses on a set of priority assignments designed to drive incremental revenue opportunities across multiple book of businesses. There will be expectations to travel when appropriate, as the role will support our ads businesses across EU5.

• Provide seamless sales support, ensuring continuity and effectiveness in sales operations, while driving revenue across Amazon Ads as a Senior Sales Manager.
• Travel within Italy primarily to match where the customer is and / or across EU5 when supporting them through your assignment-based work. We expect up to 50% travel time.
• Generate advertising revenue via ad agencies and advertisers directly, through objective led selling across Streaming TV and other brand-building advertising solutions
• Be a true hunter, hungry to uncover opportunities and connect it with a value adding solution
• Influence buying decisions to drive increased revenue from existing advertisers as well as new revenue streams
• Establishes credible relationships with agencies and advertiser decision makers, in particular in the TV and Digital landscape

About the team

Amazon Adapt is a program designed to offer coverage solutions for business gaps which may occur due to extended leave (parental, medical) and unexpected account transitions or gaps in business needs. Amazon Adapt deploys highly skilled, hyper-agile talent that ensures customers can continue to invest in their partnerships with Amazon Advertising, uninterrupted. The program ensures that the high bar for customer service, strategic partnership, and revenue attainment is maintained during these coverage gaps.

Learn more about the Adapt team by hearing from our leaders here -

Qualifications

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building client and agency relationships
• Experience closing sales and revenue generation
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Adaptability and enthusiasm for working with emerging technologies
• Business Fluent in English and Italian

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors’ degree in Marketing, Advertising or related field.
• Strong track record of high level negotiation and successful internal and external relationship management.
• Experience with TV / STV / Video ad sales or agency Knowledge of digital marketplace and understanding of the video competitive landscape
• Experience in fast-paced, technology-driven sales environments