Associate Director, Commerce Operations (Amazon)

New York City, NY (On-site)

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

Posted 9 days ago

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Job Summary

Own Amazon strategy and performance for enterprise 1P/3P accounts, leading strategic advisory, prioritization, catalog optimization, audits, troubleshooting, and performance analysis across growth-focused workstreams.

  • Drive data-driven storytelling and executive-ready recommendations
  • Own in-stock, buy box, and share of search improvements aligned to client goals

Job Description

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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive benefits package, click WPP Benefits for more details.

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