Global Account Manager - Life Sciences

AWS EMEA SARL (Switzerland Branch); Manchester; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Global Account Manager for Life Sciences to drive growth and enhance customer outcomes. Ideal candidates will possess extensive sales management experience and a strategic mindset to manage complex global accounts, ensuring customer satisfaction and achieving revenue targets.

Benefits

Mentorship and Career Growth

Work/Life Balance

Inclusive Team Culture

Qualifications

• Extensive sales or business development experience in Life Sciences technology.
• Experience leading teams focused on large, complex accounts.
• Proven track record in managing sales organizations with revenues of at least $100M.

Responsibilities

• Identify key opportunities for value in AWS cloud solutions for global Life Science customers.
• Drive revenue and market share in assigned accounts.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive regional plan.

Skills

Sales Management

Relationship Management

Negotiation

Strategic Thinking

Life Sciences Knowledge

Education

BA or BS degree in computer science, engineering, business, or related field

MBA preferred

Job description

As a Global Account Manager for Life Sciences (LS), you will have the exciting opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of an emerging technology. Your responsibilities will include identifying great ways to improve outcomes for customers, driving revenue & adoption, and helping refine the AWS strategy within the LS vertical market segment, and building momentum with our largest LS accounts. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter who is prepared to own, define, develop and execute a business plan and consistently deliver on revenue targets while thinking strategically about long term customer outcomes.

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

Key job responsibilities

• Help identify key opportunities within global Life Science customers that allow them to get more value AWS cloud solutions.
• Drive revenue and market share in assigned accounts.
• Meet or exceed revenue targets.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive regional plan.
• Accelerate customer adoption.
• Maintain a robust sales pipeline.
• Work with partners to extend reach & drive adoption
• Manage contract negotiations.
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
• Ensure customer satisfaction.
• Expect 30%+ travel

About the team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

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Mentorship & Career Growth

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Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Extensive Life Science technology related sales or business development experience

Proven sales management experience working for a technology vendor selling Enterprise solutions

Experience leading a team of sellers focused on large, complex, global accounts

Experience managing sales organizations with revenues of at least $100M+

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience as the primary account manager or team leader for a global federated enterprise working with multiple business units and influencing governance and policy is a plus.

Sales management experience in Life Science business solutions sales

Extensive experience working with a Global Life Science Technology as a Global Account and Relationship Manager.

BA or BS degree in computer science, engineering, business, marketing, or related field (MBA preferred)

Extensive enterprise selling experience in large global accounts.

Other experiences to include : experience in large complex deal negotiations with a successful track record; ability to navigate across AWS and the customer in a trusted advisor / consultative approach; and, establishing credibility quickly with senior level executives across the organizations

A strong understanding of AWS and / or technology as a service (Iaas, SaaS, PaaS) would be preferred but not required.