Strategic Customer Engagement Deal Lead APJ, GDSP

ENGINEERINGUK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading cloud technology provider, where you'll be at the forefront of strategic customer engagements. As a Deal Lead, you'll manage complex negotiations, collaborate with C-level executives, and drive the adoption of cloud solutions across various industries. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of cloud technology while fostering impactful relationships and delivering innovative solutions. If you're passionate about strategic deal-making and customer success, this is the perfect opportunity to elevate your career in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in strategic software or cloud deals.
• Experience with C-level executives in negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations for complex cloud service deals.
• Develop strategies for pricing and customer engagement.

Skills

Deal negotiation

Customer engagement

Strategic planning

Cloud services knowledge

C-level communication

Education

Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance

Advanced degree

Tools

AWS products and services

Job description

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Strategic Customer Engagement Deal Lead APJ, GDSP

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DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a member for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS APJ, and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider.

These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE global deal team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders.

As a SCE Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end to end Deal Cycle for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals. You will focus on earning trust with customers by creating actionable strategies, developing and shaping opportunities, and leading deal engagements through negotiations and closure. This highly visible role will own engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, pan-Amazon, and other strategic relationships. You will work collaboratively to drive results by partnering with AWS customers, AWS field sales executives, and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve, address challenges, and to
create innovative solutions.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead negotiations and customer closure for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals
- Develop and shape the overall deal strategy and structure to meet customer business outcome and goals
- Contribute to developing AWS's value proposition and solutions
- Drive revenue growth and Cloud adoption
- Closely collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization for APJ regional sales teams, and related regional and global stakeholders (Service Teams, Finance, Legal, etc.)
- Act as a trusted advisor in the development of the commercial strategy of deals with AWS Field Sales Executives: partner in the execution of the sales cycle for strategic, complex, or highly competitive commercial opportunities
- Inspire, influence, and facilitate alignment with internal stakeholders, experts, and other resources not under direct control, to remove obstacles and achieve desired business outcomes
- Develop strategies for pricing and discounts; effectively communicate and identify deal blockers
- Lead or support presentation of deal proposals to Customers

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- At least 12 + years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure
- At least 10+ years working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
- Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance (or equivalent work experience)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Advanced degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Direct field experience in working with enterprise accounts
- Knowledge of AWS products and services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Fluent English required, other languages such as Japanese or Korean is a plus

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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