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The Industry Cluster 1 at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Sr. Manager to build, deliver, and maintain complex products that delight our customers and raise our performance bar. You’ll design fault-tolerant systems that run at massive scale as we continue to innovate best-in-class services and applications in the AWS Cloud.
Key job responsibilities
• Leads a team of BDs and collaborate with a broad functional teams to manage accounts of significant size, depth, and complexity specifically focused on the specific industry.
• Continues to hire and build out a high performance enterprise BD team with deep specific industry expertise. Ensures clarity in assignment of territories / customer account, set goals and quota, pipeline development etc..
• Builds a team culture focused on long-term strategic relationships with key accounts, ensuring AWS’s customer obsession culture remains at the forefront of team’s focus.
• Aligns multiple stakeholders and lines of business in and across accounts that required complex decision-making process, including multiple company executives across both the customer and AWS. Role requires influencing and orchestrating BD activities and teams across multiple geographies.
• Deeply understands the opportunities within the customers and their business needs and finds new ways to articulate these as commercial constructs. Represents customer needs and helps define product requirements to improve adoption and overall customer satisfaction.
• Negotiates critical relationships and agreements with customers, suppliers or other external partners at the higher levels. May acts as the escalation point for non-standard agreement terms, including need to employ higher level management to help close agreement.
• Operates with significant discretion, taking actions to resolve problems on behalf of their team and/or issues that are impeding the business. Regularly provides learning and expertise that influences broader industry cloud adoption.
• Interacts with senior management or executive levels to gain support for items that require escalation while writing convincing and professional documents that require limited direction on matters of importance to company or customers, reviews and provides feedback and coaching to members of the team for the same.
• Builds credibility with, earns the trust of, and influences C-level client contacts and internal stakeholders.
• Influential with executive-level leadership. May be required to speak externally or otherwise evangelize AWS platform, services and customers across the specific industry more broadly.
About the team
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- Extensive experience in leading complex commercial organizations, especially in providing leading solutions for ENT/DNB customers.
- Demonstrable experience driving growth through and with cross-functions including Sales, Marketing and Segmentation, Channel and Partner Development, Legal and other organizations
- BS level degree or equivalent experience
- Fluency in both Mandarin and English at written or verbal format- Cloud sales experience
- Substantial experience working with transformative technology including cloud, IoT, data & analytics, GenAI, AI/ML etc.
- Experience influencing key stakeholders at C-level
- Proven experience with consistent business growth and quota.
- Extensive customer network
- Leadership experience
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