Senior Manager, Amazon Media & Growth

New York City, NY (On-site)

$75K/yr – $180K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own Amazon performance across the marketplace, owning full funnel strategy, category growth, and cross‑channel alignment with brand teams.

  • Full-funnel retail media architecture and budget strategy with an eye on New-to-brand growth.
  • Direct Amazon Ads and DSP tactics managed with agency input and cross‑functional partners.
  • Diagnose performance shifts and translate search behavior into actionable category insights.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Performance Media Leadership (Hands-On + Agency Oversight)
  • Direct Amazon Sponsored Ads (SP, SB, SD) and DSP strategy with agency input
  • Conduct hands-on audits of campaign structure, keyword strategy, bidding logic, budget allocation, and search term harvesting
  • Identify gaps in impression share, coverage, and defensive/offensive keyword strategy
  • Ensure full-funnel architecture (search, competitor conquesting, retargeting, prospecting)
  • Guide agency on: Budget flighting, Efficiency vs growth tradeoffs, TACoS / blended ROAS, New-to-brand acquisition
  • Diagnose sudden performance changes (impression drops, CVR shifts, buy box issues, etc.)
  • Partner with the sales team and finance to analyze weekly performance drivers and forecast media attributed sales
  • Category & Growth Strategy
  • Build Amazon category growth strategies (assortment, hero SKUs, price-pack architecture)

Requirements

  • 5–8+ years in Amazon performance marketing or retail media
  • Direct hands-on experience in Amazon Ads Console and/or DSP
  • Experience managing external agencies
  • Strong understanding of: Keyword strategy and search term mining
  • Full-funnel retail media architecture
  • Budget allocation frameworks
  • New-to-brand metrics
  • Experience working cross-functionally with brand, sales, and finance
  • Strong commercial acumen — understands P&L impact of media decisions

Preferred

  • Experience in CPG or consumer goods
  • Vendor Central experience
  • Familiarity with Pacvue, Skai, or similar bid management tools
  • Familiarity with Amz performance management tools (Stackline, Circana etc)
  • Experience building retail media strategy decks for senior leadership

Benefits

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WPP Media

Media is changing. So are we. We are WPP's global media collective, built for the AI era.We bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create innovative solutions that deliver unparalleled growth for brands - in every market, every day.

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$9.9K
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34.3%
Direct
46.3%
Referral
10.7%
Social
5.7%
Paid
2.7%

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