Account Manager, Global Financial Services (AWS)

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks an experienced enterprise sales professional to build trusted advisor relationships with CXOs, coordinate executive reviews, and drive multi-team collaboration to deliver the best cloud solutions. The role requires substantial autonomy in decision-making and responsibility for the full sales lifecycle.

You will engage with AWS teams and external partners to align workloads with customer needs, negotiate contracts, and articulate product requirements from customer insights to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives.
• 10+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and building trusted advisor relationships with key influencers and decision-makers, specifically CxOs, at the customer.
• Working closely with internal AWS teams (executives, solution architects, business development, marketing, partners, enterprise support, service teams and professional services), as well as external SI and ISV partners, to support the best business solution for customers.
• Defining a CXO relationship strategy within the customer, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
• Operating with significant autonomy and discretion. High degree of decision making is required in routine customer engagement, business judgment is critical.
• Managing the sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitating all stages of a sale.
• Participates and leads in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements, such as EAs, and contracts, such as PPAs.
• Maintains an operating knowledge of AWS’s service catalog and is able to relate them to solving customers’ business problems.
• Helps define product requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers.
• Working with marketing and communications to develop formal references, PR and case studies highlighting impactful customer activity and workloads running on AWS.

Skills

CxO relationships

Strategic selling

Sales pipeline management

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Responsibilities

• Identifying and building trusted advisor relationships with key influencers and decision-makers, specifically CxOs, at the customer.
• Working closely with internal AWS teams (executives, solution architects, business development, marketing, partners, enterprise support, service teams and professional services), as well as external SI and ISV partners, to support the best business solution for customers.
• Defining a CXO relationship strategy within the customer, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
• Operating with significant autonomy and discretion. High degree of decision making is required in routine customer engagement, business judgment is critical.
• Managing the sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitating all stages of a sale.
• Participates and leads in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements, such as EAs, and contracts, such as PPAs.
• Maintains an operating knowledge of AWS’s service catalog and is able to relate them to solving customers’ business problems.
• Helps define product requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers.
• Working with marketing and communications to develop formal references, PR and case studies highlighting impactful customer activity and workloads running on AWS.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
• 10+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience selling cloud solutions at a software company or equivalent
• Experience with AWS and technology as a service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)

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