Sr Manager, Planning

15+ years of professional non-internship marketing or business planning experience.
- Experience working with large cross-functional teams and external partners.
- Proven ability to execute high-performing marketing campaigns on time and within budget.
- Track record of combining data analysis and high judgement to deliver results.
- Experience in traditional and emerging media channels including TV, OOH, cinema, digital display, online video and paid social media.

Job summary

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

We’re looking for a forward thinking and analytically minded senior business and marketing expert to help us bring the future of Movies and TV to Africa.

Success in this role requires the ability to recommend holistic customer-centric growth plans based on local marketplace expertise, a passion for big thinking combined with deep analytics, and the planning and stakeholder management skills to deliver world-class execution across multiple teams.

Key job responsibilities
- Provide local inputs to Prime Video leadership in relation to the development of the marketing roadmap, and collaborate on the implementation of marketing plans to meet business and customer objectives.
- Oversee the full marketing calendar, supporting how to bring brand and show campaigns to market.
- Monitor and track Prime Video leadership’s marketing spend across regions, campaigns and marketing channels in accordance with leadership directives.
- Work with multiple internal and external teams to drive alignment with local plans, including; support to content acquisition and original production, product, business development, research, external partners and agencies, finance and marketing.
- Provide regular progress reports to local teams and global senior leadership, up to VP level.
- Support the development and implementation of local marketing processes, taking global best practices and help to adopting them to the region.
- Monitor and track competitive programming and marketing strategies to provide regular updates on developments.

A day in the life

In this role you will develop, propose and execute local business and marketing plans to help Prime Video viewership growth in Africa. You will make recommendations to global Prime Video leadership on customer growth strategy, propose local goals and forecasts for approval at global level, work with content acquisition, product and business development teams, and regularly report progress to local teams, and global senior Prime Video leaders.

About the team

Prime Video's mission is to be the world’s most-loved video subscription service. Prime Video International Expansion works towards this mission through strategic investments in content, marketing, and product in order to scale a brand identity that is locally relevant, a product and content catalog that serves our regional customers’ needs, and comprehensive regional distribution.
- Confident communicator (verbal and written).
- Track record of succeeding in fast-paced environments.
- Experience working in TV & Film, entertainment and new platforms.
- Experience working in South Africa in a nascent business.