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Description
AWS is seeking a highly motivated Principal Strategic Engagement Advisor professional to join the team focused on strategic initiatives. This is an individual contributor role who will work closely with Amazon senior management and cross-organization teams to develop differentiated strategic partnership opportunities, finding the right intersection between our goals, AWS Partner capabilities and accelerating customers transformation to benefit from cloud. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your ability to create differentiated solutions and develop cross functional relationships inside one of the world's most innovative, customer centric companies.
The candidate will have the technical depth and business experience to easily communicate the economic benefits of computing to IT architects, engineering teams, sales teams and C-Level executives. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of complex global businesses. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated abilities to influence decision makers in a consultative selling approach (preferably through previous consulting, sales or similar customer experience) to progress decision making through their personal involvement with developing and presenting a compelling business case. They are self-starter who enjoys solving complex problems, works effectively with cross-functional counterparts and thrives in fast-paced setting that is constantly evolving. Proving you have high judgement, strong capabilities to earn trust, and are comfortable working in ambiguous, highly-visible situations is critical for this position. A strong bias for action, strategic planning skills, quantitative analysis, and the ability to coordinate and deliver new initiatives across a highly-matrixed organization is essential.
If you are a builder with a sale, strategic partnership development background, innovative, creative, analytical, technical and strategic thinker, who wants to build transformative partnerships in a variety of industries and geographies, reach out to us!
Key job responsibilities
- Coach APJ account teams, structure complex deals and compelling proposals to best address industry business outcomes of our large enterprise customers holistically, allocate resources and investments, and reduce resolution time.
- Support decision making with high level of judgement in fast-pace cycles, monitor progress, and facilitate rapid responses to customer and partner needs with SLAs agreed across various functional leads.
- Provide leadership with visibility and produce insights of blocked pipeline and friction points to develop mechanisms that accelerate deal velocity with #OneTeam resources.
- Act as trusted advisor and thought leader to the AGS sales leadership in the development of commercial strategy and deals.
- Build strong internal relationships with leaders and counterparts across Amazon's diverse set of businesses including Product, Professional Services, AWS Partner Programs, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, and senior management.
- Advise on commercial deal terms: understand the competitive landscape and provide deal guidance to Account Teams to resolve technically complex deal scenarios and develop and support commercial strategies that drive significant business impact.
- Work with data to measure business impact, strategic costs and benefits of partnerships. Create scalable mechanisms, driving operational excellence.
- Investment analysis of cloud economics, short term and long-term.
About The Team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing, leading, negotiating and executing corporate and/or business transactions
- Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations
