Strategic Customer Engagements Deal Lead, Public Sector
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a member for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) Public Sector team. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS public sector customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS (Americas Public Sector), and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider.As a member of SCE, you will be responsible for end to end Deal Cycle leadership 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 alignment with C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of businesses 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.The ideal candidate will have customer facing experience, be a proven collaborator across internal and external stakeholders, and be a high business judgment individual.Opportunity Strategy: Partner with broader internal team and work with the customer to help set objectives, analyze key data and ensure executive alignment on the strategy for the opportunity. The individual will be able to provide advice on the competitive situation and create an actionable strategy to meet the outcomes desired by our customers and our business.Deal Structure: Understanding the desired business objectives and creating a competitive deal structure that maximizes the value of the opportunity. This includes analysis of the historical purchasing patterns by the customer, and understanding of AWS programs that can support achieving customer’s business outcomes.Negotiations: Experience with customer negotiations focused on the commercial aspects of the deal and associated contractual business terms.Closure: Will be able to bring the deal to contractual closure, including briefing senior management and managing and coordinating all of the internal and customer stakeholders.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 North America regional public sector 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 CustomersBASIC QUALIFICATIONS• 10+ 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 • 10+ years of experience 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) ...