PR Project Manager, Global Shopping Events

Arlington, VA (Unknown)

$83K/yr – $147K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-team communications and briefing for high-impact retail campaigns, turning event signals into timely, aligned messaging and spokespeople-ready assets across a broad partner network.

  • Cross-functional Program Orchestration: Align 40+ teams on Q4 holiday initiatives, reducing siloes and ensuring on-time delivery.
  • External Communications & Briefings: Create materials, messaging, and internal spokespeople briefs for external engagements.
  • Stakeholder Alignment & Analysis: Monitor industry trends and circulate concise, decision-ready analyses to key stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Wrangle more than 40 teams across Amazon, communicating event updates, reducing siloes, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration in support of seasonal retail shopping events, with a main focus on the Q4 Holiday season.
  • Develop workback timelines for key event tactics; establish a regular cadence of touchpoints to ensure teams are tracking against deadlines.
  • Source inputs for external communication materials, including key messaging and deals, routing through internal channels to secure necessary approvals.
  • Manage external PR agency on monitoring and reporting guidelines, coverage reports, and end-of campaign metrics.
  • Identify key industry trends and announcements, drafting an analysis, and circulating with the appropriate stakeholders.
  • Develop briefing documents for internal spokespeople at all levels for external-facing engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience
  • Bachelor's degree

Preferred

  • Experience leading and collaborating with a large cross-functional team
  • Can work proactively and independently, meet deadlines, and deliver on projects and tasks
  • Experience working with global teams and diverse partners
  • Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service
  • Can manage a high volume of requests and competing deadlines
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, team environment

Benefits

  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
  • Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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