Brand Specialist, Amazon Now – Amazon

Amazon Now is Amazon’s quick-commerce channel in the UAE, and this Brand Specialist role sits inside the Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) team that manages the brands selling on it. The job is to own the end-to-end relationship with a portfolio of strategic vendor brands, making sure their business on the platform is set up to grow.

That means acting as the main point of contact for a set of brands: helping them optimise catalogue content and availability, working through operational issues that affect their sales, pulling and interpreting performance data to spot opportunities, and representing the brand’s interests internally while also pushing them toward the practices that actually drive growth on a quick-commerce platform. Because Amazon Now is a fast-moving, newer channel, there’s also a fair amount of problem-solving involved in figuring out what works as the format itself matures.

It’s a strong fit for someone who is naturally relationship-driven but also comfortable with data — this isn’t a pure account-management role, it rewards people who can translate numbers into a clear recommendation a brand will act on. Experience in account management, vendor management, retail buying, or e-commerce partnerships is directly relevant preparation.

Based in Dubai, the role gives direct exposure to how Amazon builds a vendor-facing business around quick commerce, one of the fastest-growing parts of e-commerce in the region right now.

Every brand that sells well on Amazon Now makes the channel itself more valuable, which is exactly why this role exists — a Brand Specialist's job is to make sure the vendors in their portfolio are actually set up to succeed, not just technically listed. Getting catalogue content, availability, and operational issues right directly affects a brand's sales performance, and a specialist who spots an opportunity or fixes a bottleneck early can materially change how much a brand grows quarter over quarter. Because Amazon Now is still a relatively new quick-commerce channel, this role also plays a part in shaping how the platform works for vendors more broadly — patterns a specialist notices across their brand portfolio often inform decisions that affect the channel as a whole. Strong vendor relationships built here also protect Amazon's broader commercial interests, since vendors who trust their account team are more willing to invest in the channel, expand their catalogue, and prioritise it over competing platforms. It's a role where day-to-day relationship management adds up to real platform growth.

This role builds a genuinely commercial skill set that sits right at the intersection of account management, retail strategy, and e-commerce operations — exactly the combination that opens doors into senior vendor management, category management, or e-commerce leadership roles later on. Working across a portfolio of brands rather than a single account exposes a Brand Specialist to a wide range of commercial problems and category dynamics, accelerating the kind of pattern-recognition that normally takes years to build in a single-brand role. Being inside Amazon specifically, and inside a fast-growing new channel like quick commerce, also means learning from a business that treats data-driven decision-making as the default rather than the exception, a habit that's highly valued across retail, e-commerce, and consumer brand employers. The relationship-management side of the job builds negotiation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills that are transferable well beyond e-commerce, into any client-facing commercial career. For someone who wants their next move to be into category management, vendor strategy, or e-commerce leadership, time spent managing real brand relationships on one of the region's fastest-growing retail channels is a genuinely strong credential to bring to that conversation. It also teaches the discipline of managing a portfolio rather than a single account, a habit that pays off the moment a career moves into category or regional vendor leadership.

• Experience in account management, vendor management, retail buying, or e-commerce partnerships
• Comfortable working with sales and performance data to build recommendations, not just report numbers
• Confident, professional communicator able to manage relationships with brand stakeholders at various levels
• Commercially minded — genuinely interested in what drives growth for a brand on a retail platform
• Strong organisational skills to manage a portfolio of brand relationships simultaneously
• Problem-solving mindset suited to a newer, still-evolving quick-commerce channel
• Proficiency with spreadsheet and reporting tools for day-to-day analysis