Senior Amazon PPC Advertising Manager

Do you have extensive experience as an Amazon PPC specialist and you’re a natural born leader in this space? We’re firm believers that Amazon PPC results can either make or break an Amazon business. That’s how important PPC is for Amazon businesses everywhere. We’re also huge believers that people work for people, not businesses. So, we’re looking for someone that is as passionate as us, about making Amazon businesses profitable, by building great team that can handle strong PPC account management.

Welcome to Giant Horizons – we’re an online Amazon Agency, with a twist. Less corporate, more energy. Less repetition, more creativity. We’re a young agency that is entering an expansion phase as we look to start hiring our first employees. And we’re looking for a rockstar Amazon PPC Advertising Manager to support us in this expansion phase. Our PPC advertising manager will be responsible for running about 7-9 client accounts in addition to support the agency in creating new SOP’s (standard operating procedures) from which we will train our future team with.

Being a newer agency, we have a need for someone very unique. This Amazon PPC Manager role requires extensive experience in managing Amazon PPC for multiple client accounts as well as a history of leading a team in PPC. To check out a bit more about the role, head to our recruitment page to watch a brief summary of the role here:
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Key Responsibilities:
1) A strong background in PPC management:
• Demonstrate an ability to be the primary advertising specialist on at least 8-10 accounts.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop, implement, maintain and grow client KPI’s.
• Be able to effectively reduce wasted ad spend and reduce ACOS.
• A strong understanding of how Amazon PPC and listing optimisation are deeply connected.
• Be able to conduct PPC Management via Excel Sheets – with a proven ability to manage client spend profitably.
• Analysis of Amazon Data and Brand Analytics data to find trends, relationships and opportunities to expand.
• Analysis of Sales trends and inventory.
• Strong understanding of Amazon Seller Central.

2) Have experience in leading teams of people in PPC:
• Understands the SOPs needed to operate a PPC team.
• Can support in writing these SOPs from the ground up. Deep understanding of how to optimise client accounts systematically and strategically.
• Natural leadership qualities that helps teams to develop and grow.
• Training skills that naturally support new employees to learn and grow within our business.

Qualifications:
• Must have an ‘Amazon Ads Certification’ and other courses welcomed.
• Must have at least 2 years of experience in Amazon search engine marketing / PPC.
• Must have knowledge of budgeting and forecasting for campaigns.
• Must be comfortable using Excel and Google Sheets.
• Must understand, create and use Excel Pivot tables Vlookup() functions.
• Must understand how to filter data.
• Must be able to create reports to send to clients each week on ad performance.
• A history of working with and creating SOPs is a big benefit.

The ideal candidate should be very comfortable with using Excel and Google sheets. We use Excel and Google Sheets for:
• the analysis of Amazon PPC data to determine how much to bid on and which keywords we should develop cost efficient PPC campaigns for.
• Analysis of Google AdWords campaigns to find the relevant cost effective keywords (nice to have but not a required skill).
• Analysis of Amazon data to ensure that our products are ranking and finding new keywords to target.
• Analysis of Amazon Sales data to determine how much inventory to send into Amazon.

About Us
We are an Australian based Amazon Agency from Brisbane. We also own and operate our own Private Label Amazon Brand, selling on Amazon USA for over 3 years. We sell physical products: our own brand of private label products. We are currently a smaller agency and looking to hire the right people to facilitate the growing needs of our business. We are looking to grow our team of Filipino staff over the next few years and the right candidate will be leading a team of PPC specialists in the future and we continue to hire and grow. Leadership is a core requirement of this role and we would love to have you become part of growing a team that works with us remotely.

Our values:
• Soulful Creativity – we create with the heart and our work is all about the ‘feels’. We want our clients to feel something different when they interact with us.
• Relentless Drive – From day 1, there is nothing more important to us than delivering our best work and seeing the results that follow.
• Contagious Passion – We’re believers that the best brands always rise to the top in the long run, but it’s the passion behind it that gets you there faster.
• Straight Up Integrity – What we say and what we do are aligned. We play by the book, doing the right thing by you and our clients. Honest. Transparent. Straight up.

Who You Are:
• Available 40 hours per week – full time.
• You are a born leader and a team player who can work well and be trusted without much supervision.
• You are a go-getter, that is willing to learn new things.
• You can research topics online and can stay up-to-date with digital marketing trends.
• You have a work-from-home set up with great internet connection that has over 95% up-time & > 25MBPS internet speed. Dual monitor set up preferred.
• You have AMAZING American English.
• You are comfortable in receiving feedback for improvement and you are able to be honest enough to give us feedback on the things that we can also improve.

If you think you are the right fit for this role we’d love you to apply. Please put “rockstar” in the first paragraph of your application. All replies that don’t have that word will be screened out.