Please note: This is a fixed term maternity cover role

Amazon's Books team in Germany is looking for a leader to help us continue to revolutionize how customers buy and read books. 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, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be contributing to Amazon's innovation.

We are looking for an experienced, curious and thoughtful professional to work with authors, literary agents and other content creators in Germany as they add selection to the Amazon store and utilise Kindle Direct Publishing and the many programmes available to help authors succeed. You will work hard to improve existing programmes while constantly looking out for new opportunities to help authors reach their readers on Amazon.

The ideal candidate will have a track record of building strong relationships, analytical skills, innovation, and delivering results. You must be able to influence internally and externally, across functions and at scale, often in ambiguous situations. You will establish and drive new relationships while strengthening those existing within the literary community You will be customer focused, entrepreneurial, a proven self-starter, and have the demonstrated ability to invent. You will demonstrate an appetite for problem solving with ingenuity and simplicity to seek out new content opportunities and helping content creators find their readers

As the ideal candidate, you have an excellent business judgment, with a track record of successful relationship management and negotiation, balancing internal and external considerations to arrive at the right outcomes. This will be combined with proven analytical skills to ensure successful outcomes for authors and customers. You will also demonstrate superb project management skills and will collaborate with external as well as internal partners. You will have excellent attention to detail, the tenacity to develop ideas and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Key job responsibilities include the management of activities including:
In-person/virtual author events (such as trade fairs and conferences)
KDP Account management and escalation management
Literary Agent account management, including Agent Summit meetings
KDP Writing contest
Self-Publishing community engagement
Owning and tracking marketplace community engagement expediture
KDP Social Media management
Content escalation support
PR team liaison
KDP performance management (WBR, MBR, QBR)
KDP deals management
KDP Prime Reading management

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. We offer a competitive salary and stock units, we offer a whole host of other benefits, including an employee discount, private health care and pension scheme. We are committed to keeping compensation fair and equitable

Key job responsibilities
Management of author related activity for KDP Germany:

In-person/virtual author events (such as trade fairs and conferences)
KDP account management and escalation management where necessary
Literary Agent account management, including Agent Summit meetings
KDP Writing contest
Self-Publishing community engagement
Owning and tracking marketplace community engagement expediture
KDP Social Media management
Content escalation support
PR team liaison
KDP performance management (WBR, MBR, QBR)
KDP deals management
KDP Prime Reading management