Description Imagine revolutionizing the reading experience across Europe by connecting readers with transformative book discoveries. Amazon European Books is looking for an extraordinarily motivated and talented Head of EU Books Demand, with a strong customer focus to join our leadership team. The role has single threaded leadership for growth initiatives with direct responsibility for Marketing, Demand, and Pricing and sits on the EU Books Leadership team and plays an integral role working in collaboration with the WW Books Demand Leadership team and EU Stores Marketing teams. In this pivotal role, you will take a leadership role transforming the future of reading across Europe and supporting our mission to grow reading by driving strategic growth initiatives that connect readers with the best next read, leveraging best-in-class customer insight methodologies and delivering the go-to-market for innovations in digital and physical book experiences. You will leverage new technologies and deep customer insights to revolutionize how people discover, purchase, and engage with books while driving the effectiveness and efficiency of your team through AI innovations that simplify cross-border and cross-language implementation. Key job responsibilities 1. Drive Strategic Growth: Develop comprehensive strategies to drive traffic to the store, expand book selection, optimize pricing and deals, deliver best-in-class convenience and speed for customers and enhance customer engagement across all our European locales. 2. Lead Innovative Initiatives: Prioritize and implement growth initiatives and product innovations that improve book discovery, evaluation, and reading experiences. Leverage WW books best-practices to execute best-in-class go-to-market strategies and work in collaboration with PR and business teams to maximise growth from strategic initiatives and improving fly-wheel inputs. Work in close collaboration with EU Stores marketing to ensure that traffic, performance marketing and social media campaigns are optimized for Books. 3. Optimize Customer Journey: Design and manage pricing, promotions, and site merchandising to create an exceptional online book shopping experience, leveraging WW Demand and store innovations. Lead best-in-class walk-the-store and customer insight processes to ensure that we are quickly able to address defects and identify competitive gaps. 4. Nurture Team Potential: Recruit, develop, and inspire high-performing talent while fostering a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment 5. Champion AI-Driven Solutions: Implement process improvements and automation across multiple European locales, ensuring that the team is able to achieve improved effectiveness and efficiency particularly in cross-language and cross-border consistency. A day in the life Your day will be a dynamic journey of strategic thinking, collaborative working and best-in-class execution. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams across EU Books, WW Demand and EU Stores Marketing, leverage emerging AI technologies, and develop strategies that expand reading opportunities across diverse European locales and multiple languages. Expect to engage in creative problem-solving, strategic planning, and initiatives that push the boundaries of book discovery and customer engagement. About the team About the Team We are a passionate collective of book lovers, innovators and operators dedicated to transforming the reading landscape. Our team believes in breaking down barriers to reading, creating inclusive experiences that connect authors and readers across European markets. We are not just selling books; we're cultivating a global reading community that celebrates diversity, innovation, and the power of storytelling. To enable this, we work with publishing partners and authors across the global to bring more than 40 million titles to customers, simplify the books supply chain to do this efficiently, conveniently and fast and support Amazon's reputation in the creative industries. This role specifically leads a team of c. 20 across Customer Experience, Marketing/Demand, Pricing and Deals and is part of the EU Books leadership, working in close collaboration across WW Books Demand and Stores to articulate effectively EU Books industry and customer insights. Basic Qualifications - Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition - Experience with end to end product delivery - Experience with feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product - Experience with product cycles of 6 months - Experience managing teams - Experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology Preferred Qualifications - Experience working within a global company, with multi-country responsibilities - Experience in retail, operations and/or business management - Experience working in a fast paced, quickly changing or international environment - Experience dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering measurable results in an agile environment Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. 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