Job ID: 2807628 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)
AWS is seeking a highly motivated Deal Consultant professional to join the team focused on strategic initiatives. This is an individual contributor role who will work closely with Amazon senior management and cross-organization teams to develop differentiated strategic partnership opportunities, finding the right intersection between our goals, AWS Partner capabilities and accelerating customers' transformation to benefit from cloud. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your ability to create differentiated solutions and develop cross-functional relationships inside one of the world’s most innovative, customer-centric companies.
The candidate will have the technical depth and business experience to easily communicate the economic benefits of computing to IT architects, engineering teams, sales teams and C-Level executives. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of complex global businesses. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated abilities to influence decision makers in a consultative selling approach (preferably through previous consulting, sales or similar customer experience) to progress decision making through their personal involvement with developing and presenting a compelling business case. They are self-starters who enjoy solving complex problems, work effectively with cross-functional counterparts and thrive in fast-paced settings that are constantly evolving. Proving you have high judgement, strong capabilities to earn trust, and are comfortable working in ambiguous, highly-visible situations is critical for this position. A strong bias for action, strategic planning skills, quantitative analysis, and the ability to coordinate and deliver new initiatives across a highly-matrixed organization is essential.
If you are a builder with a sales, strategic partnership development background, innovative, creative, analytical, technical and strategic thinker, who wants to build transformative partnerships in a variety of industries and geographies, reach out to us!
Key job responsibilities
1. Coach enterprise account teams, structure complex deals and compelling proposals to best address industry business outcomes of our large enterprise customers holistically, allocate resources and investments, and reduce resolution time.
2. Support decision making with high level of judgement in fast-paced cycles, monitor progress, and facilitate rapid responses to customer and partner needs with SLAs agreed across various functional leads.
3. Provide leadership with visibility and produce insights of blocked pipeline and friction points to develop mechanisms that accelerate deal velocity with #OneTeam resources.
4. Act as trusted advisor and thought leader to the AGS sales leadership in the development of commercial strategy and deals.
5. Build strong internal relationships with leaders and counterparts across Amazon’s diverse set of businesses including Product, Professional Services, AWS Partner Programs, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and senior management.
6. Advise on commercial deal terms: understand the competitive landscape and provide deal guidance to Enterprise Account Teams to resolve technically complex deal scenarios and develop and support commercial strategies that drive significant business impact.
7. Work with data to measure business impact, strategic costs and benefits of partnerships. Create scalable mechanisms, driving operational excellence.
8. Investment analysis of cloud economics, short term and long-term.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in developing, negotiating and executing business agreements
- Experience in a professional field or military
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience as a founder or executive focused on related segments, or as a practice leader or business unit owner
- Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations
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