Content Acquisition Manager, PV Sports Partnerships

Sports Partnerships Manager

We are looking for a process-oriented manager to drive commercial operations and partnerships supporting Amazon's Live Sports SVOD, Short Form and FAST (AVOD) business. The Sports Partnerships Team within Prime Video brings a growing selection of live sports content to Amazon customers around the world, including NFL Thursday Night Football, NBA and NHL for Prime members, NBA League Pass and MLB.tv through Prime Video Channels (PVC), and a growing selection of Sports AVOD partners. The ideal candidate has strong attention to detail and will build operational efficiencies. In this role, you will work across different teams internally and externally to ensure growth and success across our partners, including inventing and simplifying our processes as we continue to scale our SVOD and AVOD business. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and uses problem solving skills to overcome a variety of challenges. In addition, this individual should have the ability to clearly and concisely communicate thoughts and ideas, both written and verbally, and be comfortable working across a variety of cross-functional stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities:

• Own day to day setup and onboarding of new partners.
• Manage business reporting to meet both internal and external requirements.
• Liaise with cross-functional teams (e.g., product, marketing, etc.) to identify new levers to drive incremental growth.
• Evaluate potential partners to ensure optimal selection and source new potential deals.
• Drive process improvement efforts and work to identify gaps/inefficiencies in internal workflows and standardize processes to make workflows more efficient.
• Support the Content Acquisition Team in deal negotiations to drive operational improvements.
• Collaborate across pan-regional sports initiatives across Amazon.