Associate Director, Commerce Operations (Amazon)

VML/WPPEnterprise Solutions; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions seeks an Associate Director, Commerce Operations to drive Amazon-focused initiatives within a hybrid role. You will bridge strategy and execution, guiding promotions, catalog optimization, and supply chain improvements while translating client performance into actionable recommendations.

You will lead data-driven analyses, craft executive-ready presentations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver growth for client brands on Amazon.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years managing Amazon Vendor Central (1P) and Seller Central (3P).
• Ability to translate data into actionable client recommendations.
• Deep knowledge of Amazon inventory templates, category templates, variation relationships.
• Advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Text-to-Columns).
• Data synthesis and storytelling to create executive-ready presentations.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Commerce Leadership and advisory for promotions, content, catalog, availability.
• Provide operational guidance for catalog setup, PDP optimization, A+ content, imagery.
• Conduct audits of in-stock availability, PO rejection rates, missed sales, and SKU profitability.
• Collaborate with commerce managers to resolve catalog errors and escalation paths.
• Review Amazon performance data and translate into strategic actions to grow client outcomes.
• Connect retail metrics to client business goals and growth opportunities.
• Identify risks and opportunities from promotional support and content quality.

Skills

Amazon 1P/3P experience

Commercial acumen

Excel proficiency

Data storytelling

Catalog & content guidance

Job description

Associate Director, Commerce Operations (Amazon)

Who We Are

WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on. In a world where Al is reshaping how companies drive growth, we lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution. Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets. WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses. VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.

About the Role

We are seeking a versatile and highly analytical Associate Director, Commerce Operations to join our Amazon squad. In this pivotal role, you will sit between our Retail Services Lead (who drives high-level portfolio strategy) and our Commerce Managers (who execute day-to-day tactical operations).

This is a unique hybrid role that requires you to seamlessly flex between strategic planning and deep operational troubleshooting. You will collaborate closely with the Retail Services Lead in translating client business performance into actionable recommendations, provide guidance on Amazon growth priorities, and consult on key initiatives such as promotion strategy, catalog optimization, retail readiness, and supply chain efficiencies.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Commerce Leadership
• Strategic & Commercial Advisory: Provide day-to-day strategic support, bringing commercial context and clarity to complex business results, marketplace trends, and operational issues.
• Retail Priorities & Planning: Advise on priorities across promotions, content, catalog, availability, and retail execution, delivering proactive recommendations to drive performance and growth.
• Advanced Amazon Expertise
• Operational & Catalog Guidance: Guide best practices for catalog setup, product content (PDP optimization, A+ Content, imagery), variation structures, and retail readiness.
• Operational Audits & Commercial Health: Conduct holistic audits of marketplace operations, analyzing and presenting findings on in-stock availability, PO rejection rates, missed sales, and SKU-level profitability.
• Collaborative Troubleshooting: Partner with commerce managers to resolve complex operational scenarios, catalog errors, and suppressions, establishing clear escalation paths for platform hurdles.
• Performance Analysis
• Data Interpretation & Reporting: Review Amazon performance data to provide strategic interpretation of what is happening, why it matters, and what should happen next.
• Metric & Goal Synthesis: Connect core retail metrics—such as sales, traffic, conversion, share of search, and buy box performance—directly to broader client business goals.
• Risk & Driver Analysis: Proactively identify emerging risks and growth opportunities by evaluating retail drivers beyond raw data, including promotional support, content quality, and operational friction.

Key Qualifications & Skills

• Experience: 5-8 years of experience managing enterprise-level Amazon Vendor Central (1P) and Seller Central (3P) accounts, ideally within an agency setting.
• Commercial Acumen: ability to interpret complex data and turn performance trends into actionable recommendations, leveraging strong commercial judgment to connect Amazon execution to business outcomes and present comfortably to client stakeholders.
• Technical Amazon Expertise: deep, practical knowledge of Amazon inventory templates, category templates, variation relationships, and the Amazon ticketing ecosystem.
• Advanced Excel Skills: you must be highly proficient in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, Concatenate, Text-to-Columns) to manipulate large catalog data sets.
• Data Synthesis & Storytelling: ability to pull raw data (Purchase Orders, Weeks of Cover, Traffic) and turn it into highly visual, executive-ready presentations that highlight "lost opportunities" and clear next steps.

We offer a competitive benefits package.

$75,000 - $180,000 USD

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships – all united by our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com .

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