Job Openings Director of Amazon Operations (China)

About the job Director of Amazon Operations (China)

We may be wrong (that rarely happens), yet if you are reading these lines, that means you are the kind of personality we are so eager to acquire, the one who has a proven track record of bringing brands on Amazon to success and building teams that can’t be stopped by any barriers or difficulties. 

You won’t miss this opportunity to become a part of Berlin Brands Group, a world-leading e-commerce company that manages the brand development and multi-channel distribution of more than 2,500 products for consumers in 24 countries worldwide! 

You will lead the new HQ team as it is born to pave its way to conquer the global market. 

Your responsibilities:
  • Hire and build the local China team to support reaching our aspirational goals;
  • Lead the China local team and collaborate closely with BBG´s headquarter cross-functional teams to make the acquired brands successful;
  • Collaborate with BBG's headquarter leadership to identify projects and opportunities progressively and systematically;
  • Close coordination with BBG's Headquarter cross-functional teams is very important as together you will be identifying processes that should be adopted from Europe and those, that need to be localized or build-up entirely from scratch;
  • Own the commercial success of a selection of our brands on the Amazon platform focused on optimizations of listings in Amazon Seller Central;
  • Take full responsibility for driving key marketplace metrics and push them to the next level;
  • Build scalable processes by making use of data, automation, and AI;
  • Make sure that every department tracks the right set of KPIs and puts actions behind; 
  • Keep a holistic view of the business: this requires a solid understanding of and focus on the entire value chain of the business, from forecasting and purchasing, supply chain and distribution networks, customer satisfaction, sales, and marketing to after-sales service and return.

Your profile:
  1. 6+ years of experience in leadership positions including Head, Director, or VP in e-commerce companies in China;
  2. 4+ years of experience in Amazon focused businesses;
  3. Deep understanding of the China e-commerce & retail market; 
  4. Highly driven, exceptional strategic thinking and entrepreneurial execution abilities;
  5. Superior analytical and problem-solving capacity with experience in successfully navigating within a matrix of different environments;
  6. Relationship builder with winning communication and excellent presentation skills;
  7. Tolerance for ambiguity and entrepreneurial can-do mentality;
  8. Ability to steer and manage projects with multiple workstreams over a wide variety of functional business problems, ideally with proven successes in the past;
  9. Significant experience in leading cross-functional teams;
  10. Strong leadership skills with a team-oriented and collaborative approach to work.

Your benefits:
  • For you, this is a once-in-a-lifetime challenge in a top-notch team of experienced and successful managers and entrepreneurs;
  • Company benefits such as 30% discount on products from our own shop and employer's contribution to the company pension plan;
  • Immediate responsibility and full ownership for strategic business decisions on a global scale;
  • A managing position in one of Europe’s most exciting sustainable high growth rate companies;
  • A team of highly skilled and dedicated colleagues will support you;
  • Opportunities for professional development, language courses as well as team training and coaching;
  • An international and dynamic working environment; we celebrate success together at numerous company events.

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