Business Growth Manager, Sports Channels, Sports Partnerships

Amazon • Culver City, CA

4d

About The Position

We are looking for a strategic, analytical, and results-driven candidate who can
drive the management and growth of key Prime Video Channels (PVC) for Amazon's
Sports video business. The Sports Partnerships Team within Prime Video brings a
growing selection of live sports content to Amazon customers around the world,
including NFL, NBA, WNBA, NASCAR, NHL, and NWSL.

The ideal candidate is a critical thinker with a strong attention to detail, an
ability to juggle multiple priorities, and isn’t afraid to roll up their
sleeves. In this role, you will work across different teams internally and
externally to ensure the success and growth of key sports subscription services
on PVC and invent and simplify our processes as we continue to scale our Sports
Channels business. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced
environment and uses problem solving skills to overcome a variety of challenges.
This individual should be highly proficient in Excel and capable of
communicating clearly and concisely in both written and verbal formats.

Requirements

• 4+ years of account management, business development, content licensing or finance experience
• Experience with Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables)
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Fluent in English.
• 4+ years of experience working in a directly relevant industry (sports, digital, consulting, banking), with exposure to sports and/or entertainment industry.
• Experience using Excel and/or other analytical/Business Intelligence tools.
• Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, multi-task, and prioritize workload.
• High attention to detail, comfortable with hands-on management of tasks.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams, communicate with colleagues in both business and technical roles and develop process that drives scale.
• Adept at working with different systems and making recommendations on improvements for both systems and processes.
• Ability to succeed amidst ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both with internal teams and external vendors.

Nice To Haves

• Background in program management/accounting/finance.
• Excel Expert level and SQL proficiencies.
• Leveraging technology to invent, improve, and scale.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate internal and external cross-functional workstreams to ensure the success of Amazon's sports subscription services. Collaborate with territory leads on international growth opportunities.
• Derive business insights and develop tactical recommendations to optimize and grow each channel
• Support writing of updates and deep dive documents for senior leadership
• Support deal negotiations for new channels
• Learn and be curious of customer’s and partner’s needs, both existing and potential, and use that knowledge to advocate for and drive the delivery of features that provide customers with a best-in-class streaming experience
• Have a thorough understanding of the sports and entertainment industry, seasonality and business trends/events, and continually monitor competitor/industry developments

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level