Principal Account Manager, Telecoms (AWS)

Amazon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a world-class Principal Account Manager to lead and grow our strategic relationship with a major global Telco. You will define and execute an account strategy, drive revenue growth, and deepen customer adoption across the AWS portfolio including GenAI and edge solutions.

You will engage with C‑level executives and IT decision-makers, orchestrate cross‑functional teams, and position AWS as the preferred cloud partner for telco workloads.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales or sales management of infrastructure or cloud technology.
• Proven ability to present to and negotiate with C‑level executives for enterprise deals.
• Bachelor's degree or MBA in a relevant field.
• Experience creating long‑term transformational account strategies in a customer‑facing role or equivalent.
• Knowledge of the Telecommunications industry.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a comprehensive account strategy for a global Telco provider, driving revenue targets and long‑term growth.
• Create compelling value propositions around AWS products, services, and partnership programs to deliver on customer outcomes.
• Engage at the C‑Suite level as well as with software architects and engineering teams.
• Drive solutions discussions covering modernization, migration, AI/ML, and network optimization for telco workloads.
• Partner with Solutions Architects, TAMs, Professional Services, Partner teams, and GTM resources to define and execute strategy.
• Build and manage a robust pipeline across end‑customer opportunities, identifying new workloads in GenAI, SaaS, network transformation, and managed services.

Skills

C-level engagement

Telco industry knowledge

Strategic account management

Cloud sales

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree / MBA

Tools

AWS platform

Web services

Job description

Job ID: 10483098 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

AWS is seeking a world-class sales professional to lead and grow our strategic relationship with one of the largest global Telco customer. As a Principal Account Manager within AWS Global Telco, you will drive digital transformation through strategic engagement with C-level executives, IT decision-makers, and key business leaders across one of AWS's most strategic global accounts.

You will define and execute a comprehensive account strategy that drives revenue growth, deepens customer adoption across the full AWS portfolio — including compute, networking, storage, AI/ML, Generative AI, and edge solutions — and positions AWS as the preferred cloud partner for next‑generation telco workloads. This role requires deep understanding of the telecommunications industry, to support transforming their business models through cloud adoption.

On a daily basis, you will empower your customer to solve complex challenges, delivering measurable business outcomes while guiding them to become more agile, innovative, and efficient. You will establish AWS as the strategic cloud technology provider, leveraging the fastest pace of innovation, broadest and deepest functionality, most secure computing environment, and most proven operational expertise in the industry.

Do you look around corners for ways to engage and service customers? Are you passionate about using technology to solve business problems with significant customer impact?

Come build the future with us.

Key job responsibilities

• Account Strategy & Revenue Growth: Define and execute a comprehensive account strategy for a global Telco provider, driving revenue targets and long‑term growth. Work backwards from the customer’s business needs to accelerate adoption of the most appropriate AWS services and programs.
• Customer Business Outcomes: Create compelling value propositions around AWS products, services, and partnership programs (co-sell, co-build, Marketplace) to consistently deliver on desired customer outcomes — including SaaS transformation, GenAI adoption, and cloud‑native network solutions.
• Executive & Technical Engagement: Engage at the C‑Suite level as well as with software architects and engineering teams. Use interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders from technical teams to executives, ensuring short‑term technology decisions align with long‑term business goals.
• Solution‑Led Selling: Drive solutions discussions diving deep into complex challenges — including modernization, migration, AI/ML, and infrastructure optimization for telco workloads. Recommend AWS products and services aligned with how the Telco delivers solutions to their end customers (Telco operators globally).
• Cross‑Functional Orchestration: Partner with Solutions Architects, Technical Account Managers, Professional Services, Partner teams, and GTM resources to define and execute strategy. Coordinate global resources across regions to support the ISV’s worldwide customer base.
• Pipeline Development: Build and manage a robust pipeline across the ISV’s end‑customer opportunities, identifying new workloads in GenAI, SaaS, network transformation, and managed services.

About the team

The team is a high‑performing, customer‑obsessed sales team within the AWS Global Telco organization, covering the largest global telecommunications providers and ISVs. This role will focus on a major multinational telco network equipment provider, driving AWS adoption across their product portfolio and internal IT transformation.

Diverse Experiences

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience in sales or sales management of infrastructure or cloud technology
• Experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C‑level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
• Bachelor's degree, or MBA in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent
• Experience creating and implementing long‑term transformational account strategies in a customer‑facing role or equivalent
• Knowledge of the Telecommunications industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the AWS platform, web services, software development, or related technologies
• Experience and track record of exceeding sales goals
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in MBA highly desired
• Track record of winning in competitive/challenger account environments where you are not the incumbent

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