Account Strategist, Delivery Service Partners

Experience in digital advertising and client facing roles with a focus on data analysis
- Experience with annual brand and media planning

The Account Strategist is an equal parts advisor and operating partner to Delivery Service Partners (DSP’s). Amazon’s team of Account Strategists assist and guide our DSP business owners as they build and grow successful last mile package delivery businesses within Amazon Logistics (AMZL). The Account Strategist will help kick start a net new business as well as being the bastion for expected excellence our partners strive towards. They will guide and advise on how to improve the businesses. The Account Strategist will work alongside Regional on The Road (OTR) managers in areas of dual purpose related to transition of responsibility of execution of planning and DSP capability.
The Account Strategist find and execute value-creation opportunities and manages the DSP relationship across the entire lifecycle of the business, with focus areas around DSP sentiment, safety, compliance, performance and reliable capacity. As trusted advisors, Account Strategists work alongside DSPs to help solve their biggest challenges at a programmatic level; influence their business planning and strategy; and look around corners to identify obstacles and recommend solutions, ensuring DSP owners make effective business decisions and are set up for success, whilst working to deliver quality.
The Account Strategist will work closely with a portfolio of owners at different stages as they set strategy, help drive accountability and engagement, and motivate and track key performance metrics. They will collaborate frequently with a wide array of integrated internal stakeholders such as Partner Relations (PAR), Value Added Service (VAS), Legal, fleet and network health to name a few. The Partner Executives support owners by removing obstacles and improving financial, operational, and safety practices at the network level. They facilitate and execute Monitoring and Enforcement Policies (MEP) and build two-way feedback channels with OTR teams, DSPs and WW/EU Product and strategy.
The Account Strategist will be required to work flexibly and will be required to travel between multiple sites to engage with business owners weekly to carry out their role effectively. The role is field based and requires a significant level of travel.

Key job responsibilities
- Safety: Partnering with OTR Safety and OTR Regional Managers to ensure business safety compliance.
- Performance: Guiding owners as they scale their business and manage operational issues, ensuring they have resources in place to effectively ramp-up operations and prepare for peak period.
- Performance: Supporting owners as they onboard to the program and prepare to launch (this will be on the basis of a net new launch only)
- Performance: Coaching business owners to run compliant, safe and high performing companies (SLS metric deep dive)
- Experience: Identifying workflow inefficiencies and working to formulate and implement operational improvements at the network level and to improve the individual DSP owner experience.
- Experience: Developing the relationship between Amazon and our DSP partners (DSP sentiment improvements)
- Experience: Communication alignment to DSP business owners following close collaboration with OTR partners.
- Be the voice of the DSP within and represent them within the AMZL business.
- Coach and ensure effective upskilling and utilization of tools.
- Deep dive to identify customer metric improvement opportunities.
- Improve driver standards to protect brand image

A day in the life
You’ll be based at one of our sites. Being on site allows you to stay close to every part of the delivery process and means you have visibility of everything to guide our logistics partners. You’ll look after all elements of our partner relationships, from getting the contracts in place to keeping track of performance.

This role is all about clear communication. You’ll be in daily contact with the partners you manage to make sure they have everything they need to carry out deliveries on time.

About the team
Amazon Logistics, or AMZL, handles ‘last mile’ delivery duties in partnership with third-party distribution businesses. We utilise creative thinking and continuous improvement initiatives to get millions of physical products into the hands of our customers. Our goal is to make our customers’ delivery experience as smooth as possible and roll out global delivery solutions for our newest concepts, like Amazon Fresh, Prime Now and Amazon Restaurants.

There are two sides to what we do. Our ‘under the roof’ associates process millions of products for dispatch to our delivery teams. Our team is people-focused and supportive, particularly as lots of our people work through the night. We focus mostly on operations, with 24/7 shifts in most of our locations.

Meanwhile, our ‘on the road’ people work with Amazon Flex - a netwo