In an effort to expand its operations to Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries, the international e-commerce company, Amazon has announced that it is launching its Lagos-based office in April 2023. The company also disclosed that it is recruiting qualified Nigerians for 7 vacant positions which include Associate Solutions Architect for Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) Start-up scaling team; Start-up Segment Leader, sub-Saharan Africa, Amazon Web Services (AWS) start-ups, and Senior Partner Sales Manager, Nigeria and Kenya.
Others are Start-up Account Manager, sub-Saharan Africa, AWS; Solutions Architect, start-ups, AWS (sub-Saharan Africa); Senior Solutions Architect, West Africa, WWPS and Enterprise Account Manager, Nigeria.
Amazon said the Enterprise Account Manager would initially be based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with a view of relocation to Nigeria and would also “help promote the growth and shape the future of an emerging technology”.
According to the company, “Candidates for the start-up account manager, sub-Saharan Africa, AWS must have ten years of technology-related sales, business development or sales engineering/consulting experience in areas such as Cloud, analytics, Mobile, e-commerce.
“The ideal candidate for the senior partner sales manager role would possess a business background that enables them to engage at the CxO level and to easily interact with partners, customers, and sales/field reps”.