Senior Delivery Practice Manager - Global Accounts, AWS Industries

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Delivery Practice Manager to lead teams and drive transformative IT projects. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and people leadership, ensuring successful project delivery while fostering long-term relationships with enterprise customers. You will engage with C-level executives and influence global decisions, all while working in a culture that values diversity and inclusion. Join a company that prioritizes mentorship, career growth, and work-life balance, making a significant impact in the cloud computing landscape.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Mentorship programs

Employee affinity groups

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• 15+ years of technology implementation experience with strong analytical skills.
• Experience leading consulting practices and transforming business processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Delivery Consultants to ensure project success.
• Collaborate with sales to build strong customer relationships.

Skills

People leadership

Customer relationship management

Strategic thinking

Sales experience

Technical implementation

Change management

AI/ML transformation

Education

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Senior Delivery Practice Manager - Global Accounts, AWS Industries

The Senior Delivery Practice Manager (SDPM) - Global Accounts is a key people management role within the ProServe Shared Delivery Team (SDT). They play a crucial role in bridging our sales and delivery teams ensuring we are able to meet our customer objectives. They work in close collaboration with the CST team, ensuring the delivery capabilities through technical validation during the pre-sales stage. The DPMs ensure successful project delivery by leading a team of Delivery Consultants and Engagement Managers, fostering long-term customer relationships while supporting enterprise customers through transformative IT projects. They combine strong people leadership skills with deep technical expertise.

To achieve the desired outcomes for this role, DPMs must be comfortable (1) managing a team of ProServe Delivery Consultants and Engagement Managers, and (2) supporting AWS enterprise customers through a variety of transformative projects. DPMs bring diverse people leadership experience gained within an IT and/or Management Consulting background and knowledge of industry IT. They leverage this credibility as a strategic advisor to sellers, customers, and partners. They can craft an innovative, forward-looking strategy while clearly outlining the investment and multi-step go-to-market plan necessary to help our customers lead the changes to IT strategy, policies, processes, people, governance and partnerships.

DPMs are responsible for building and managing a team of Delivery Consultants and Engagement Managers working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions. They routinely engage with Director, C-level executives, and governing boards. They are responsible for opportunity capture and driving engagement delivery. They work closely with partner teams, drive business development initiatives through thought leadership, provide portfolio guidance and oversight, and meet and exceed customer satisfaction targets. DPMs are primarily focused directly or through their teams, on understanding and defining business outcomes for customers by building trust, identifying applicable AWS Professional Services offerings, and creating proposals and SOWs.

Key job responsibilities

1. Engage customers - collaborate with Global Accounts sales managers to develop strong customer and partner relationships and build a growing business and influence global decisions from India, driving AWS adoption in key markets and accounts.
2. Sell consulting engagements – that can span from short on-site projects proving the value of AWS services to massive cloud migration projects that include the movement of thousands of applications and the automation of the cloud infrastructure to house them.
3. Coach and teach - collaborate with AWS Global Accounts sales, pre-sales, training and support teams to help partners and customers learn and use AWS services.
4. Deliver value - lead high quality delivery of a variety of customized engagements with partners and Global Accounts customers.
5. Lead great people - attract top technology talent to build high performing teams of consultants with superior technical depth, and great customer relationship skills.
6. Be a customer advocate - Work with AWS engineering teams to convey partner and enterprise customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps.

About the team

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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 in the cloud.

Minimum Qualifications

1. BA/BS degree or equivalent experience;
2. Highly technical and analytical, possessing 15 or more years of progressive technology implementation experience;
3. Great customer relationship management, sales, delivery experience and collaboration skills;
4. Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges;
5. Consulting practice leadership;
6. Experience transforming business processes using AI/ML;
7. Deep understanding of cloud transformation journey and change management;
8. Enterprise architecture successes including virtualization technologies & distributed architecture;
9. Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape;

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