Would you like to join one of Amazon’s fastest growing teams, focused on driving digital transformation for organizations across Canada? Do you have experience selling into the government, education, health care, or non-profit sectors? Are you a natural “hunter” who enjoys challenging customers to think differently about their procurement and supply chain technology? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment where collaboration, ability to deal with ambiguity, and a desire to roll up your sleeves is critical?
Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion-dollar global business. With the launch of Amazon Business in Canada, we are expanding our sales team to make buying even easier for organizations and businesses across all sectors. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. At Amazon Business, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech and retail in the B2B space, developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help reimagine buying.
Bilingual Account Executives are responsible for building and managing their book of business in French and/or English by leveraging solution-selling; traditional and digital prospecting tactics; and strategic customer relationship management. Primary areas of responsibility include prospecting, creating personalized solutions for customers, and developing relationships with buying decision makers across functional areas--such as Information Technology, Facilities, and more.
Account Executives will also ensure that recommended solutions meet our customers’ procurement needs and will recommend approaches and alternatives that fit their environment, including: public sector contracting and procurement requirements; eProcurement integration; advance payments; and automated reconciliation processes. They work closely with customers to manage deployment and ensure that our solutions are successfully adopted.
Ideal candidates will have relevant consultative sales experience and a proven track record of meeting and exceeding program goals and revenue targets.
Key job responsibilities
• Manage a territory of existing and greenfield accounts by providing a consultative selling approach that helps customers solve industry-specific procurement challenges.
• Drive and accelerate spend adoption by advising new and existing customers on best practices for using Amazon Business strategically.
• Work closely with Solution Consulting, Professional Services, Product, Marketing and other key internal Amazon stakeholders to ensure customer success.
• Initiate prospecting and lead generation activities across public sector organizations with key C-level executives, inclusive of Finance and Procurement.
• Relay market needs, customer feedback, and requirements back to internal Amazon teams, including Product, Technical, and Category Management teams.
• Work closely with sales leadership to provide critical updates on key deals in the pipeline and insights learned during implementation and throughout the customer journey.
• Educate and network with key prospect and customer contacts.- BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience
- 3+ years of B2B sales experience
- Demonstrated track record of successfully identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels
- Demonstrated track record of successfully positioning and selling solutions to new and existing customers and market segments
- Native speaker proficiency in French.- Experience selling to procurement and/or supply chain roles
- 5+ years of sales experience selling to senior leadership at public sector organizations and/or Fortune 5000 companies.
- Expert use of MS Office Suite, CRMs (e.g. Salesforce.com) and other systems
- Experience with customer facing communication including leading in-person or virtual customer meetings, product demonstrations, or trainings.
- Demonstrated success identifying, prioritizing, developing, and growing a book of Fortune 500 strategic customer accounts
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