Managing Director - AIE & Amazon Commerce Connections Lead at VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions | Chicago, IL, US | Rezi

Managing Director - AIE & Amazon Commerce Connections Lead at VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions

Managing Director - AIE & Amazon Commerce Connections Lead

VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions · Chicago, IL, US

5 days ago

Managing Director - AIE & Amazon Commerce Connections Lead

VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions · Chicago, IL, US

5 days ago
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About the Role

We are seeking a senior Commerce leader to establish and direct a new AIE & Amazon Commerce capability within WPP Commerce Connections. This position operates at the nexus of Amazon commerce, data, AI, technology, and business transformation. The initial focus is to guide the business and solution strategy for a major AI-driven Amazon Commerce initiative, collaborating with AWS and a WPP team to convert complex data into actionable commercial insights. The role's ambition extends to developing this solution and its capabilities into a scalable WPP offering for future client engagements and AWS opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the business and solution vision for AIE, ensuring technology and AI address meaningful Amazon business challenges with measurable outcomes.
  • Act as the senior Amazon Commerce subject matter expert, integrating retail operations, profitability, inventory, digital shelf, search, media, measurement, and customer experience.
  • Translate client business priorities into high-value use cases, requirements, and product capabilities in collaboration with strategy, analytics, experience design, and technology teams.
  • Partner with AWS and WPP technical leadership to design solutions combining Amazon data, cloud infrastructure, analytics, and AI into scalable commercial applications.
  • Provide senior client leadership, guiding executives and operational teams on the implications of intelligence, enabling decisions, and actionable steps.
  • Collaborate with Program Delivery leadership to maintain alignment between business vision, product roadmap, and technical execution.
  • Develop the broader AIE & Amazon Commerce Connections capability by identifying reusable intellectual property, methodologies, technology, and operating models for broader client deployment.
  • Contribute to shaping the WPP + AWS Commerce partnership by identifying new opportunities and commercializing successful client solutions into repeatable offerings.
  • Mentor and develop a multidisciplinary team across Amazon Commerce, retail operations, analytics, strategy, product, experience, and technology.
  • Support growth and commercialization efforts, including client development, solution design, scoping, and executive-level pitches.

Requirements

  • Operated at the intersection of Amazon, technology, and commercial decision-making.
  • Deep Amazon ecosystem expertise, including experience within Amazon and/or leading sophisticated Amazon solutions for major brands.
  • Significant experience with data, analytics, technology, and AI-enabled solutions, with the ability to translate technical capabilities into commercial value.
  • Strong understanding of the signals driving an Amazon business, including sales, profitability, inventory, operations, search, digital shelf, media, and measurement.
  • Experience building products, solutions, or capabilities from ambiguity.
  • Ability to engage in executive-level conversations, Amazon business strategy, product definition, and technical discussions.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional teams across strategy, analytics, engineering, product, and delivery.
  • Strong client leadership and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex problems and build consensus among stakeholders.
  • An entrepreneurial mindset and interest in building a capability.

Skills

  • Amazon Commerce
  • Data
  • AI
  • Technology
  • Business Transformation
  • Retail Operations
  • Profitability
  • Inventory Management
  • Digital Shelf Optimization
  • Search Strategy
  • Media Planning
  • Measurement
  • Customer Experience
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Analytics
  • Product Development
  • Solution Design
  • Client Leadership
  • Communication

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior
  • Managing Director

Salary/Compensations

  • $125,000—$295,000 USD

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package

About the Company

  • WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
  • With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships – all united by our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
  • For more information, visit WPP.com.

Equal Opportunity

  • WPP (VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
  • We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.