Sr. Manager, Business Planning , Events, Sports, and Sponsorships
Amazon Web Services, Inc.•15h ago
United StatesOnsiteFull-timeManager Level9+ yrs exp
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- We are seeking a highly strategic Senior Manager to join the Business Planning Team within the AWS Events, Sports
- Sponsorship (ESS) organization. This role serves as a trusted partner to senior leadership, executive-level stakeholder management, shared services partnership ownership
- organizational influence to ensure the team’s highest priorities are delivered with precision and impact. The successful candidate will translate business priorities into actionable strategies, manage complex cross-functional initiatives
- ensure alignment across various teams both inside and outside of ESS. This role also serves as a critical pan-ESS overlay function—driving connective tissue across SSEP, Sponsorship, Global 1P and 3P Events
- Content and Platform Ops. This role will own dedicated partnerships with shared service teams within the broader AWS Marketing organization on behalf of ESS including Strategy & Ops, Marketer Experience, Customer Research
- Data: Science and Engineering amongst others. The role will work across these centralized functions to drive cross-team alignment and build roadmaps to prioritize and deliver the highest-impact work. Through ownership of these cross-org partnerships, this role will ensure our organization retains speed, influences joint outcomes
- earns trust The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with exceptional communication skills, strong business acumen, a very strong “dot connector”
- has the ability to deliver results at all levels without direct authority while operating with exceptionally high strategic judgment in a fast-paced environment. Key job responsibilities Strategic Support & Planning
- Partner with the Head of Business Planning to define, communicate, and execute on organizational priorities and long-term strategy
- Track progress against key business goals and surface risks or opportunities to leadership
- Translate executive vision into actionable workstreams with clear milestones, owners, and timelines Operations & Execution
- Oversee day-to-day business operations and ensure efficient execution of cross-functional initiatives
- Identify operational gaps and implement scalable processes and measurement frameworks to improve team effectiveness
- Manage and drive cross-functional priorities, including agenda-setting support for leadership meetings and offsites
- Establish and maintain mechanisms for inspecting progress, escalating blockers
- driving accountability Shared Services Partnership Management Own and drive ESS partnerships with centralized shared service organizations (examples below), ensuring aligned roadmaps, prioritized intake
- Data: Science & Engineering (D:SE): Ensure the highest-priority measurement projects are being worked on, provide business inputs for ROI modeling and calculations, review measurement frameworks for business context alignment
- drive increasing ROI pan-ESS.
- Marketing Strategy & Operations (MS&O): Partner across Strategic Opportunities and Customer Segmentation (SOCS), Marketing Ops (MarOps), Marketing Insights and Reporting Analysis (MIRA)
- Taxonomy. Define pan-ESS needs, prioritize requests, build joint roadmaps, escalate risks
- continuously inspect mechanisms to ensure efficiency and bar-raising outputs.
- Customer Research: Ensure our interlock with Customer Research is focused on the highest priority items that we want to track through surveys including brand health, CSATs, and co-identifying new research opportunities.
- Define cohesive intake mechanisms, escalation paths, and inspection cadences for each shared service partnership
- Represent ESS interests in shared service prioritization forums, ensuring the right influence and alignment to deliver the highest outputs
- Within the broader AWS Marketing organization, shared service teams now function as centralized resources, requiring dedicated partnership owners to coordinate alignment, build joint roadmaps
- ensure ESS’ needs are prioritized and resourced. This role is central to navigating and building out that operating model effectively. Cross-Functional Coordination & Pan-ESS Alignment
- Serve as the pan-ESS overlay driving connective tissue across SSEP, Sponsorship, Global 1P and 3P Events, and Content and Platform Ops.
- Act as a liaison between the ESS LT and internal stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment
- Lead or support high-priority, cross-functional projects from inception to completion
- Facilitate decision-making by synthesizing complex information and presenting clear recommendations as it relates to portfolio planning, xMBRs, narrative writing.
- Ensure consistency of strategy, messaging
- operational approaches across ESS sub-teams About the team The ESS Business Planning team sits within AWS Events, Sports
- Sponsorship organization and serves as the strategic and operational backbone for the org. As ESS drives customer engagement through world-class events—from flagship properties like AWS re:Invent to regional Summits
- Sports Marketing activations through our portfolio of Sports and Entertainment partners—the Business Planning function ensures that strategic priorities are translated into execution, cross-functional partnerships deliver maximum impact
- the organization operates with efficiency and accountability.
- 9+ years of professional non-internship marketing experience - Experience building, executing and scaling cross-functional marketing programs - Experience communicating results to senior leadership - Experience driving direction and alignment with large cross-functional teams and agency partners - Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
- Experience in a business-to-business (B2B) environment, high-tech products/services - MBA Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability
- other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications
- location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits . USA, WA, Seattle - 118,200.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually
Required skills
MarketingData AnalysisCross-functional CoordinationStrategic PlanningProject Management