Overview:
Want to work in one of the fastest growing and most innovative businesses at Amazon? Interested in working in a high impact role? Come join our product management team and help define the course of a revolutionary reading device. Kindle wirelessly downloads books, magazines, newspapers, and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.
We are looking for a smart, results-oriented Site Merchandiser to drive demand and grow our Kindle business. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and executing best in class site and email merchandising strategies for the Kindle. This role is based in the UK in our Slough offices.

The Site Merchandiser will write and schedule content on emails, home pages, category pages, and pages across the site, compile and analyze traffic and other web metrics, and report on performance to our management teams. He or she will help to drive site improvements to completion by coordinating with project managers, developers, the marketing team, designers, and other editors. Technical requirements include HTML, XML and Excel, plus the ability to learn our in-house tools quickly. The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, capable of handling multiple projects at once, able to take direction, and work well with multiple teams. In addition to having first-class written and verbal communication skills, this Site Merchandiser will be able to prioritize to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will be innovative and internally motivated and have strong interest in and some experience with online merchandising in the Kindle market segment.

- Planning and executing the site merchandising calendar. This includes email programs, new product launches, cross-category placements, participation in Amazon site-wide events, browse tree design and search results.
- Develop merchandising for large storewide promotions, and work closely with buyers and marketing to schedule promotions.
- Develop, test, analyze and replicate a successful overall Kindle email program that sells Kindles, improves conversion rates, and more.
- Create emails, category pages, brand stores, campaigns, and free search improvement projects
- Synthesize and analyze relevant content metrics
- Propose new traffic-driving content strategies

The Site Merchandiser must be able to think and act both strategically and tactically. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:

- Experience designing and executing online customer experiences
- Strong communication skills; experience in coordinating teams and communicating to senior management
- Strong bias for action and ability to prioritize
- Ability to use hard data and metrics to back up feature and customer segment recommendations
- Aptitude for organization, flexibility and producing results in a fast paced environment
- Technical requirements include HTML, XML and Excel, plus the ability to learn our in-house tools quickly.
- BA/BS required

The ideal candidate will be innovative, team oriented, an effective communicator, have a desire to participate in change and appreciate a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities. We are seeking someone with demonstrated history of successful project ownership and using customer data to identify and prioritize opportunities. An understanding of, and passion for, books and technology is highly desired.

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• Location: Slough, London
• Compensation: approx £50K to £60K p.a.
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