Amazon South Africa 2025 Internship Job Opportunity for Account Manager Intern Cape Town

We’re on the lookout for the curious, those who think big and want to define the world of tomorrow. At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact, visionary person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with exciting new challenges, developing new skills, and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow.
Amazon marketplace teams work to help improve the selection and shopping experience – our vision is to make Amazon the best place for third party selling partners of all sizes to grow and serve customers. As an Account Manager intern, you will learn how Amazon handles its marketplace business whilst working amongst a team of account managers where you will learn the core skills required to launch selling partners and provide a suite of services designed to support Amazon’s most strategic brands. Your priority will be to work backwards from the customer, identifying inputs to grow brands and improve their performance.
At Amazon, you will define your goals, exceed them, and set new ones. We aim for the ultimate simplicity to make customers’ lives easier. That’s why we need people who are innovators and disruptors. People who dive deep and think big. We want to you to feel welcomed, included and valued right from the start. We know that your experiences will help us build a better world.

This is a 6 months full time internship

Key job responsibilities
• Conducting sales pitches to key accounts
• Account manage selling partners you launch on Amazon and manage these opportunities concurrently
• Build an understanding of customer pain points, requirements, and potential value that can be delivered by advertising or merchant services
• Understand and utilise CRM tools as well as prioritising meeting/exceeding targets
• Learn the Amazon culture and ways of working
• Identify opportunities to improve our products, services, processes, systems, and tools
• Work with different parts of the Amazon business to deliver on a project, this may include working with category teams, product teams, and technical support teams


About the team
If you’re insatiably curious and always want to learn more, then you’ve come to the right place. Depending on your location, country, job status and other requirements, some or all of the following benefits may be available to you as an intern.
• Competitive pay
• Impactful project and internship/role deliverables
• Networking opportunities with fellow interns
• Internships events such as speaker series, intern panels, Leadership Principles sessions, Amazon writing skills sessions.
• Mentorship and career development

You are:
– Available to commence an internship in Feb/March 2025.
– You should then be available for 6 months, full time (40h/week) in Capetown
– Recent Graduate or Pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree
– Fluent written and verbal communication in English (Level – C1 or higher).

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Speak, write, and read fluently in English

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience working with clients

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.