Oleksandr

Oleksandr Makarenko
Amazon Specialist
Full-time, part-time, projects / flex. hrs, remote
Age: 28 years
City: Kyiv

Contact information
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Previous experience

• Amazon Review Collection Manager
Top Shelf Coffee Roasters Inc.
from May 2024 till December 2024 (8 months)
• Strategize and implement review collection initiatives across all of our Amazon product listings​
• Plan and execute giveaways to incentivize customers to leave reviews
• Monitor and respond to direct messages from customers regarding their experience with our
products
• Work closely with the marketing team to ensure consistent messaging and branding in all review
collection efforts
• Track and report on star ratings across all products
• Amazon Specialist
Mellanni Fine Linens (Poluco LLC)
from October 2021 till May 2024 (2 years 7 months)

• Monitor account health and performance metrics, sales, competitive listings, and pricing,
Amazon Advertising trends (US marketplace), best practices and techniques to ensure correct
account spend/growth, identify new opportunities and present to management;
• Research the product to identify best selling variations (sizes, colors,
materials), prepare the initial order plan;
• Cooperate with Product department on technical details of the product;
• Analyze product ASIN rankings, ratings, customer feedback/reviews, as well as product sales
performance to determine the best and worst-performing SKUs;
• Keep abreast in e-commerce retail industry best practices, new trends and technologies,
marketplaces, and platform updates (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Walmart etc.);
• Partner with Supply Chain and marketing analytics on inventory management strategy and
forecasts.
• Cooperate with Creatives Department to bring up the best content ideas on the market;
• Report (daily, weekly, monthly) on campaigns and overall account health and provide
recommendations to enhance performance;
• Catalog and PDP Management - New item set up, item maintenance, content uploading and
PDP monitoring;
• Conducting A/B tests to reach the best results;
• Support the launches of new businesses on Amazon.
• Amazon KDP / Review Team Manager
Amazon KDP Seller, remote (E-commerce, Publishing)
from May 2020 to October 2021 (1 year 4 months)

• completed keywords research for new books;
• created listings for new products, launched new books on KDP platform;
• co-created a unique semi-automated review generating funnel with own reviewers \ buyers
database (more than 600 Amazon users from UK, DE and USA);
• managed review team (2 people), organized working process with reviewers;
• generated around 20.000 reviews for 200 SKU's (incl. protection of 1st page with upvotes \
long reviews with pictures);
• completed HR responsibilities (candidate search, interviews, mostly Amazon
specialists); • delivered other administrational tasks (bank transactions, salary payouts);
• closely worked with UpWork platform (hiring freelancers to engage into review generation, ads
posting, consulting).

Education
Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy
Philologist (Teacher) of German, English Languages and Literature, Cherkasy
Bachelor Degree , from 2014 to 2018 (4 years)

Related skills
• G-Suite, MS Office;
• Helium 10, Keepa;
• Various Chrome Extensions for Amazon (Keywords Everywhere, DS AMZ Quick View, AMZ
Suggestion Expander etc.);
• Beginner in Python, SQL data analysis (currently studying);
• ClickUp;
• AI Rookie (prompts engineering etc.);
• SEO, traffic analysis tools (ahrefs, serpstat, similarweb);
• Email marketing tools (Gmass, MailChimp).

Language proficiencies
• English - above average
• German - above average
• Russian - proficient
• Ukrainian - native

Hobbies & Interests
I'm a big dog-lover, have played basketball since childhood, always improving my languages,
trying to travel as much as I can and explore new activities (mountain bike, fishing, hiking).
Also I'm a huge music fan, trying to grab some free time to start collecting vinyl or even
start making some beats or covers etc.