Amazon’s growing Canada Marketplace Sales team is looking for a Sales Account Representative to drive success and growth within key Amazon business groups. This role is for candidates who are passionate about selling, and helping small and medium business grow. The ideal candidate has a history of achieving goals and exceeding deliverables. Successful hires are strong analytical thinkers and problem solvers who thrive in fast-paced dynamic environments. They are strong communicators, effective listeners and project managers who are able to balance multiple and often conflicting priorities. The ability to manage a valuable prospect list is vital; candidates must be comfortable prospecting, cold-calling, and negotiating via phone on both transactional and strategic branding-based deals. This is an exciting opportunity to learn about our solutions and how these drive the overall Amazon business.

Key job responsibilities
This person will be the primary point of contact for those companies throughout the entire sales process. The Account Representative will be chartered with developing and managing a sales pipeline mix of both high value and transactional accounts while executing sales strategies to secure deals that will exceed account acquisition and output goals. Specifically, this individual will be responsible for identifying and building relationships with key influencers and decision-makers within the senior management and executive teams of prospective accounts, along with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams to create and present compelling Amazon solutions that meet and exceed customer requirements.
As an organization, Amazon’s North American Seller Services is uniquely highly influential by coordinating across Amazon customers, Amazon category teams and Amazon Sellers. We are a business development organization; we drive growth for over 2MM Amazon Sellers through business intelligence, cross-selling efforts and integrated Account Management. We are successful by focusing on growth for our Sellers’ businesses.

A day in the life
- Identify, qualify, acquire and grow seller commitment to Selling on Amazon programs.
- Analyze customer data and make recommendations in order to maximize the potential of the assigned territory. Execute successfully on the plan recommended.
- Implement and track metrics for recording the success and quality of the sellers in your territory. Use these metrics to guide your work and uncover hidden areas of opportunity.
- Manage complex contract negotiations and serve as a liaison to the legal team.
- Prospect and close business to achieve quarterly quota targets for both the quantity and quality of sellers recruited.
- Understand and utilize the right tools to track all pertinent account information and sales progress as well as forecast and prioritize to achieve quarterly quota goals.
- Develop a thorough understanding of the e-commerce and Softlines industry and competitive environment including knowledge of competitive product offerings.
- Prioritize and complete additional projects while maintaining current book of business such as mentorship, competitive analysis, and sales analysis.
- Prepare and deliver business reviews regarding progress and state of health for the respective territory.
- Meet or exceed quarterly revenue targets and operational metrics.
- Create and articulate compelling value propositions around the Selling on Amazon product.
- Develop a clear understanding of the Selling on Amazon products along with the features and functionalities.
- Assist internal partners to drive change, remove roadblocks and close business.