Director, EMEA Commercial Channel Category Manager  Job Listing at AMD in United Kingdom (Job ID 66973-en-us)

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As a Director, Commercial Category Manager for EMEA at AMD, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing regional product and go-to-market strategies. With deep expertise in market dynamics, the competitive landscape, and AMD's technology portfolio, you'll identify growth opportunities, build data-informed business plans, and drive alignment across sales, marketing, and channel teams. You will translate global priorities into regionally tailored initiatives, support strategic account planning, and enable high-impact partner engagement and performance. This highly visible role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of insight, strategy, and execution—and is passionate about accelerating results.

Does this sound like you? We would love to talk.

• Proven leader in category, product, or marketing strategy—ideally within the PC hardware and commercial channel space
• Executive communication skills with the ability to influence internally and externally
• Able to thrive in ambiguity and challenge status quo 
• Experience managing sizable channel marketing budgets to maximize ROI and impact.
• Significant background working with channel partners to develop plans to collaboratively grow our joint business.
• Comfortable presenting to different audiences; customers and business/partner executives
• Willing to travel up to 25% of the time

• Analyze market trends and insights to identify business opportunities and risks. 
• Monitor industry and competitor developments and foster technological acumen to maintain a competitive edge and stay updated on AMD's advancements and recommend partner strategies for growth. 
• Collaborating with the Worldwide teams, you'll understand the latest device developments and articulate their value proposition. With a deep understanding of the market, competition, and technology, you'll build a visionary strategic plan encompassing product, readiness strategies, programs, and marketing. 
• Develop and implement regionally tailored strategies that combine AMD's technology leadership with local market nuances and implement them, driving a world class orchestration with the sales & marketing teams supporting the channel partners in region 
• Working closely with sales teams, you'll support the development of world-class account plans, support the customer journey and drive a consistent, strategic and cohesive approach 
• Strong communication, empathy, and decision-making will be key to crafting effective, partner-first solutions. You'll drive sales & marketing strategies with partners, executing comprehensive plans and leveraging data to optimize performance and enhance online presence, jointly with Partner Development sales managers & marketers.  
• Facilitating knowledge-sharing sessions, you'll empower employees and channel partners with industry insights and best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. 
• Maximizing return on investment, you'll develop strategies for Sales & Marketing campaigns, analyzing performance data and making data-driven recommendations to drive strong business outcomes. 

We'd love to connect if this is your background!

• Category Management Experience: Proven success in category management, product management, marketing strategy, business planning, product planning. An established background working in Server and Datacenter, Client, Graphics and/or CPU sales organization with progressive success scaling complex solutions through multiple channels a PLUS
• Organizational Experience: Demonstrated background managing and expanding a category and attaining sales and profitability targets within a complex (e.g., multinational or matrixed) organization 
• Partner Enablement: Extensive experience in Commercial channel partner sales enablement with proven track record of driving revenue and market share goals
• GTM Strategy: Experience implementing Commercial Channel strategies that grow revenue base and market share
• GTM Execution: Validated experience in developing and successfully executing sales plans and channel programs
• EMEA Experience: Solid understanding of the broad EMEA market, and the cultural and business differences across different countries

BSEE or relevant technical degree, MSEE or MBA is preferred

United Kingdom

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