Amazon

Sr Business Development Mgr, Amazon Freight Partner (AFP)

Amazon$143K — $194K *
Transportation
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years professional or military experience required.
  • Structured and negotiated complex agreements.
  • Proficient with sales CRM tools like Salesforce.
  • 4+ years delivering cross-functional projects, or MBA with 4+ years experience.
  • Influencing stakeholders and leading teams across industries preferred.
  • Experience in small business ownership is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Develop long-term business strategies for AFP recruitment.
  • Initiate, structure, and close partnerships for new and existing relationships.
  • Analyze capacity requirements to identify and engage candidates.
  • Drive candidate engagement and education for steady recruitment.
  • Improve candidate experience through ongoing analysis and best practices.
  • Build relationships with industry partners and associations for candidate sourcing.
  • Speak at events to promote the AFP program to potential candidates.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • 401(k) matching program for retirement savings.
  • Paid time off and parental leave policies.
  • Access to mental health support and employee assistance programs.
  • Flexible spending accounts and adoption reimbursement coverage.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Business Development Manager to own the end-to-end partner acquisition pipeline. In this role, you will identify, engage, and convert high-quality candidates to join the AFP program, manage a proactive bench of vetted candidates across multiple domiciles, and activate partners to meet capacity planning targets in support of network expansion. You will develop and execute the business development strategy for AFP partner recruitment - including field-based sourcing through local partnerships, community organizations, and referral networks. You will assess AFP planning targets, match candidates to domiciles using geographic clustering models, and build relationships with bench candidates over time to maintain a warm, conversion-ready pipeline. You will drive offer acceptance and pre-onboarding readiness while creating scalable mechanisms for candidate engagement and re-vetting that reduce time-to-fill in hard-to-recruit markets. This role requires comfort with ambiguity, strong ownership, and the ability to operate independently in the field while collaborating cross-functionally with capacity planning, marketing, recruiting and operations teams.

Key job responsibilities
• Developing the long-term business development strategy for AFP recruitment
• Initiating, structuring, negotiating, and closing new relationships as well as renewals of partnership organizations
• Analyzing capacity requirements, and pipeline to identify and engage high-quality candidates
• Driving engagement, education, and support for AFP candidates including nurturing bench candidates
• Continuously improving the candidate experience through root-cause analysis and establishment of best practices
• Establishing and nurturing relationships with industry partners, professional associations, and corporate partners to source AFP candidates
• Speaking at events to help prospective candidates learn about the AFP program

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of professional or military experience

- Experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross-functional groups to orchestrate and successfully complete deals

- Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software

- 4+ years of delivering cross functional projects experience, or a MBA and 4+ years of working cross functionally across several teams experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience influencing multiple stakeholders and leading cross functional teams across geographies and business units

- Experience working with or owning a small business.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, GA, Atlanta - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

USA, TN, Nashville - 129,300.00 - 175,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Bellevue - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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