Job description
- Relevant business level technical knowledge (e.g., Cloud, virtualization, AI/ML) with respect to how companies are leveraging these capabilities to drive business outcomes and the challenges they face in achieving them.
- Experience with account management, relationship management and solution selling
- Experience working within the technology industry is highly desired
- Experience within and knowledge of the top-tier Management Consulting community (4+ years)
- Degree required
Would you like to own the relationships with the key firms in the Business Consulting & Advisory community and inform decision making on the impact of leveraging Amazon Web Services to drive industry innovation? Do you have the business acumen, technical insight, and experience necessary to mesh with the C-Level and Management Consulting Community to help further establish Amazon as the leader in the cloud computing space?
Key job responsibilities
As a partner development manager within AWS, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s cloud computing platform within the strategic advisory community and their clients. Your responsibilities will include developing deep business, strategic, and technical relationships with the different firms and their client base and identify where we can unlock significant business potential. You will work closely with the AWS sales team to drive the day-to-day interactions with the partners and enterprise customers in order to create long-term business opportunities. You’ll work closely with these partners to identify and build innovative industry solutions that drive transformational change within their clients. Finally, you will leverage your relationships and experience within the C-Suite to become a trusted advisor to the partners and AWS sales teams and drive innovation, business outcomes, and industry transformation with marquee enterprise customers.
A day in the life
The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive engagement at the CxO/VP level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with solution architects and professional service team. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges with the ability to develop and convey compelling value propositions and build consensus across the organization. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and execution is a must.
Key job responsibilities
As a partner development manager within AWS, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Amazon’s cloud computing platform within the strategic advisory community and their clients. Your responsibilities will include developing deep business, strategic, and technical relationships with the different firms and their client base and identify where we can unlock significant business potential. You will work closely with the AWS sales team to drive the day-to-day interactions with the partners and enterprise customers in order to create long-term business opportunities. You’ll work closely with these partners to identify and build innovative industry solutions that drive transformational change within their clients. Finally, you will leverage your relationships and experience within the C-Suite to become a trusted advisor to the partners and AWS sales teams and drive innovation, business outcomes, and industry transformation with marquee enterprise customers.
A day in the life
The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive engagement at the CxO/VP level, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with solution architects and professional service team. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges with the ability to develop and convey compelling value propositions and build consensus across the organization. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and execution is a must.
- Work with Business Consulting & Advisory Partners (BCAPs) to identify joint enterprise clients where we can jointly deliver business impact
- Serve as a key member of the EMEA partnership team in helping to define and deliver the joint go-to-market strategy
- Engage with the AWS field sales and business development team to maximize the success of the BCAPs in supporting our customers
- Engage the leadership of each BCAP team to develop and execute strategic go-to-market approaches
- Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (sales teams, partners, marketing, support, etc.)
- Work closely with the Partners to build and enable practices around AWS and shape how the partners position AWS to their clients
- Drive innovation within industry verticals with the BCAPs – bringing customers and advisory firms together from idea to market solutions
- Understand and actively utilize salesforce.com and other internal Amazon systems
- Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to establishing new Partner engagements and solutions
- Handle complex engagements and the fast pace of the cloud computing market
- The right person will be technical, analytical, and possess 10+ years of business development, strategic partnerships, or program/product management experience.
- Experience with alliances or partnerships
- Industry depth in 2 key market segments – Pharma, Telecom, FS, Manufacturing, etc.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations
- MBA, Masters or equivalent executive level experience
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AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)
www.amazon.jobs
Seattle, United States
Andrew Jassy
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Internet & Web Services
1994