- Location
- Cape Town
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Marketing
- Seniority
- Manager
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- CareersPage
Description
Amazon Brand Manager
Full-Time | Remote
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Amazon Brand Manager to take full ownership of the performance, profitability, and growth of assigned brands on Amazon.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Amazon operator who can analyze performance, identify growth opportunities, coordinate with internal teams, and execute strategies that improve sales, market share, profitability, and overall brand health.
Key Responsibilities
Sales & Brand Performance
- Take ownership of sales, profitability, and overall performance across assigned brands and SKUs.
- Develop strategies to increase revenue, conversion rates, organic rankings, and market share.
- Analyze brand and SKU-level performance to identify opportunities and areas for improvement.
- Monitor sales, traffic, conversion rates, advertising efficiency, inventory, pricing, and profitability.
Listing Management & Optimization
- Ensure product listings are accurate, compliant, complete, and optimized for conversion and organic search.
- Optimize titles, bullet points, descriptions, keywords, images, A+ Content, and Brand Stores.
- Coordinate listing updates, new product launches, variations, and catalog corrections.
- Monitor listing suppressions, content issues, customer feedback, and competitor positioning.
Inventory Management
- Monitor inventory across Amazon FBA and Vendor Central to maintain healthy stock levels.
- Work with purchasing, operations, and supply chain teams to prevent stockouts and excess inventory.
- Review sales velocity, forecasts, lead times, and inbound inventory to support replenishment planning.
- Identify and resolve FBA, Vendor Central, and fulfillment issues that could impact sales.
Pricing & Profitability
- Develop pricing strategies that balance competitiveness, growth, and profitability.
- Monitor competitor pricing, promotions, Buy Box performance, and market trends.
- Analyze product margins, Amazon fees, advertising costs, discounts, and other expenses.
- Recommend promotions, coupons, deals, and other pricing initiatives.
Advertising & Marketing
- Work closely with the advertising team to align PPC strategies with overall brand goals.
- Review campaign performance, budgets, ROAS, and TACoS.
- Ensure advertising aligns with inventory availability, product launches, and profitability targets.
- Identify additional growth opportunities through promotions, seasonal campaigns, Brand Stores, Amazon programs, and external traffic.
Growth & Product Initiatives
- Identify opportunities for growth through new product launches, bundles, variations, improved content, promotions, and expanded keyword targeting.
- Conduct competitive and category research to identify market trends and opportunities.
- Develop and manage launch plans across content, pricing, inventory, and advertising.
- Stay current with Amazon platform updates, programs, policies, tools, and best practices.
Reporting & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Prepare regular performance reports highlighting results, challenges, opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Collaborate with advertising, creative, purchasing, operations, finance, customer service, and leadership teams.
- Maintain clear action plans and ensure projects are completed on schedule.
- Take ownership of resolving issues affecting sales, profitability, or customer experience.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing Amazon brands, product lines, or Seller/Vendor accounts.
- Strong knowledge of Amazon Seller Central, Vendor Central, FBA, and Amazon Advertising.
- Experience with listing optimization, inventory planning, pricing, promotions, and performance analysis.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into actionable strategies.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple brands, SKUs, and priorities simultaneously.
- Proactive, detail-oriented, commercially focused, and highly accountable.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Amazon research and analytics tools such as Helium 10, Jungle Scout, Keepa, or similar platforms.
- Experience managing multiple brands or large SKU portfolios.
- Experience with Amazon product launches and growth strategies.
Key Performance Indicators
Success in this role will be measured by:
- Sales growth
- Profitability and contribution margin
- Organic ranking and market-share growth
- Conversion-rate improvement
- Inventory availability and reduced stockouts
- Advertising efficiency
- Listing quality and catalog health
- Successful product launches
- Completion and impact of brand-growth initiatives
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate treats each assigned Amazon brand as if it were their own business. They are analytical, commercially minded, organized, proactive, and hands-on. They don't simply monitor performance—they identify problems, develop solutions, coordinate execution, and take ownership of measurable sales and profit growth.