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Description

Amazon Italy Kindle team is looking for a leader to help us continue to revolutionize how customers buy and read books. Did you know that reading make people more empathetic and therefore contributes to making the world a better place? If you are ready to change the world, work hard and engage in a rapidly changing industry, this position is right for you. We offer a creative, entrepreneurial and global work environment where you’ll contribute to the expansion of some of Amazon’s most iconic offerings such as Kindle ebooks, Kinde Unlimited and Prime Reading.

The ideal candidate has a track record of strong negotiation, relationship building, and analytical skills. We expect the candidate to be able to ideate, recommend and execute a vision, and to build programs and features from the ground up. You must be able to influence across multiple organizations, be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker and have a history of delivering results. You will establish and drive new relationships with publishers and strengthen existing ones. You will be customer focused, entrepreneurial, a proven self-starter, and have the demonstrated ability to invent. Bringing a passion for books is a big plus, but if you don’t have one we are confident you eventually will!

Within this role, you will:

• Be an expert relationship manager and communicator, who works closely with publishers up to C-level to ensure Amazon customers can find any book in our store, download it quickly at a great price and have an excellent experience reading it

• Be responsible for specific publisher level metrics around selection, engagement with our subscription programs and profitability

• Play an active role in the success of our two most strategic subscription programs: Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading

• Become an ebooks expert who understands industry trends, the competitive environment and readers’ needs - and innovates in response by developing new services and products

• Own and drive projects, areas of expertise and business metrics at local, European or worldwide level, working closely with leaders across the entire Books organization. A great example of a project recently led by our team is the launch of digital Magazines in France, Italy and Spain.

This role can be performed from Italy, Spain or Luxembourg.

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

Milan, MI, ITA

Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5-7 years experience delivering results in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to influence at all levels, including very senior level

• Proven analytical and quantitative skills (includes ability to use such tools as Excel); ability to use hard data and metrics to build and back up assumptions

• Fluency in Italian and English, both verbal and written, are required.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA preferred

• SQL experience

• Experience leading projects or programs

• Experience and/or knowledge of the Book industry or other media content related industries

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.