APJ Enterprise Accounts GTM Leader

AMAZON WEB SERVICES SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cloud platform is seeking an APJ Enterprise Accounts GTM Leader to drive sales for mid-size to large customers in APJ. This strategic role involves developing Go-To-Market strategies, enabling teams, and ensuring operational excellence. The ideal candidate possesses extensive sales leadership experience and the ability to craft innovative solutions tailored to varying market needs.

Qualifications

• Minimum fifteen years of experience in direct sales and business development.
• Experience leading Go-To-Market efforts with enterprise customers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth and build a healthy pipeline for mid-size to large customers.
• Set GTM direction for Enterprise Accounts across APJ.
• Develop scalable and impactful sales campaigns.

Skills

Sales Leadership

Analytical Skills

Strategic Planning

Job description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and unwavering support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

We are looking for an accomplished leader with extensive customer-facing experiences to lead the Go-To-Market Strategy for our Enterprise accounts cohort which is responsible for driving a consistent sales motion to accelerate the next wave of growth in mid-size to large customers that are aligned by industry across APJ. The role will provide overall guidance and strategic oversight on aspects including how to accelerate opportunity creation and launch in a scalable approach to driving integrated planning mechanism that will more tightly align different field facing teams. In addition, the role will partner with AWS Industry teams, Partner, Marketing, Specialist and Field Enablement to curate localized industry solutions, map & activate local Area partners, develop campaigns, and enable Focus sellers on prioritized industry use-case and solutions. For this to be successful, you must be able to strike a balance between consistency and customization to serve the unique needs of each country. At an operational level, you will be responsible for defining and establishing a governance structure and processes to ensure operational excellence and consistent delivery of high-quality results. You are a leader who is be able to hire, develop and motivate teams to deliver results and strive for the highest standards.

The ideal candidate will possess both a core sales/sales leadership background specifically in driving territory-based sales motions, as well as background in sales strategy that that enables them to think long term. The individual should also have a demonstrated ability to think analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work across the business to set vision, objectives and to build consensus. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and desire to dive deep is a must.

Key job responsibilities

The APJ Enterprise Accounts GTM Leader is a people manager role that is the single-threaded leader for the focus Accounts across APJ representing the next wave of growth via mid-size to large customers. The key responsibilities for the role include the following

• Meet or exceed growth for large to mid-size customers in APJ and build a healthy, high-quality pipeline to ensure long-term success
• Set strategic Go-To-Market (GTM) direction for Enterprise Accounts in APJ in partnership with field sales teams and drive for sustainable growth in this cohort of customers
• Define the model for territory management across the region, develop a scalable approach to integrated territory planning including the mapping and activating of local area partners
• Design high impact sales plays and campaigns appropriately positioning AWS Services and industry solutions as well as contribute to tactical execution of GTM activities in conjunction with Marketing and Partner teams. Triage across all programs/initiatives to simplify this sales motion for the field
• Enable execution at the edge through capability building, resource allocation and business enablement (e.g., sales discipline, analytics, wallet and market share information)
• Identify and escalate industry and cohort-based program asks across areas to relevant internal stakeholder teams
• Build repeatable mechanisms (and tools to accelerate customer and business outcomes including evaluating innovations and experiments
• Drive knowledge sharing of best practices across global and regional teams, localize international initiatives for market relevance, and provide leverage by scaling expertise and aggregating trends

About the team

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Basic qualifications

• At least fifteen years of work experience with a mix of experience in direct sales, sales leadership and business development, and working with enterprise customers
• Experience leading GTM efforts for major features or services including, but not limited to positioning, pricing, launch, sales plays, etc., where scope involved working with multiple partner teams
• Strong written and verbal communication and analytical skills, including strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
• Demonstrated ability to work within a matrix environment and work with stakeholders across different functions and geographies to achieve a common goal

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of existing and developing technologies and cloud computing
• Experience in multiple APJ countries
• Strong leadership skills – ability to influence and earn trust across levels and create impact through indirect teams

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