Head of Amazon Global Selling, SEA

DESCRIPTION

Amazon provides enterprises the opportunity to sell their goods on the Amazon platform worldwide, and more than 2 million sellers have been using this Marketplace service today. Amazon is developing infrastructure aggressively to support this growth around the world, particularly in the booming cross border selling area. In this context, Amazon’s Services team is seeking an experienced business leader, to identify the potential business opportunities for bringing South East Asia sellers and sell globally on Amazon marketplaces, as well as take part in defining the vision and go-to-market strategy. The ideal candidate is a seasoned senior level manager with a background in ecommerce and affiliated industries, and a reputation for hiring and developing the best talent. S/he will have a track record of success at driving results, partnering cross functionally, and professionally representing clients’ needs/perspectives to the various stakeholders. The candidate in this role will be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker with a history of driving process & strategy implementation. S/he will have a strong track record of supporting marketing initiatives, tactics, plans, processes, systems, and programs. S/he will be known for accurate forecasting, building strong relationships, and analytical leadership skills. S/he will thrive in a fast paced dynamic and sometimes ambiguous environment and insist on the highest standards.

Key job responsibilities
Basic Qualifications:
· Strong business development and project management skills with the ability to initiate relationships, assess partnership viability, work through long deal cycles, and close complex deals.
· Natural leadership skills with the experience and seniority to help recruit and train a high performing team
· Excellent analytical and planning abilities to design and oversee programmatic business development efforts.
· Track record of successful on initiating, proposing cross functional projects and drive to implement.
· Proven ability to own complex, strategic partnerships with industry leading organizations
· Team player with strong persuasion skills able to drive consensus across multiple stakeholders
· Must be technically competent and have a strong understanding of e-commerce technologies, including partner eco system.
· Balance high-level strategic thinking with hands-on tactical work to get things done quickly
· Data driven and “quantitative” mentality with an ability to back up ideas with facts or examples
· Entrepreneurial with an inherent sense of urgency; not afraid to take risks and get things done quickly while maintaining high standards
· Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to speak effectively to any audience;

Preferred qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
· 15+ years of experience in sales, business development, or partner management within ecommerce or technology sectors. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
· Proven record of leading large business organization across multiple locations; recruit and develop exceptional talents, building high-performance team in rapid change environment; cultivating a positive, engaging, and inclusive work environment, and driving innovations;
· Demonstrated track record of winning/establishing strategic relationships with enterprise. customers/partners and/or brand owners.
· Ability to think strategically and execute methodically. Adept at making data-driven decisions
· Comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high-energy environment;
· Flexibility to work across multiple time-zones in multiple languages;
· Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, computer science or relevant field of study, MBA is a plus.
· Vietnam language speaker is a plus;

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Singapore, SGP

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 15+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience engaging and presenting to senior executives (CXO level).
– Experience working with emerging technologies