Senior Innovation Lead, Innovation & Transformation Programs

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

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DESCRIPTION

Would you like to help our customers innovate like Amazon, drive their transformation strategy, and maximize the potential of cloud-driven innovation?

Are you passionate about helping enterprises build customer-obsessed solutions that deliver extraordinary results?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking an exceptional Innovation Leader to join our Innovation & Transformation Program (ITP) team in the UK and Ireland.

As a Senior Innovation Lead, you will work directly with enterprise C-suite leaders to drive innovation across their organizations. You'll apply Amazon's proven mechanisms including Working Backwards, Two Pizza Teams, and Day 1 thinking to help businesses develop loveable solutions that deliver breakthrough results. Your role will involve leading strategic customer engagements, delivering executive-level workshops, and guiding customers through Amazon's Working Backwards process to develop new products, services, and businesses. Your primary responsibility will be to identify, develop, and lead engagements with Enterprise customers - engaging line of business and C-suite leaders, qualifying opportunities, leading innovation and transformation engagements, and driving subsequent prototypes and scaled solutions.

You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial enterprise technology sales environment and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams. This role requires seamless coordination across various AWS groups, as many aspects of the program have interdependencies with other teams. You'll regularly engage with sales leadership, solutions architects, marketing professionals, partners, professional services, and sales enablement teams to deliver comprehensive solutions to our customers. Your ability to navigate complex organizational structures, align diverse stakeholders, and drive cohesive execution across these teams will be critical to your success in accelerating customer innovation and transformation on AWS.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of enterprise innovation while working with diverse organizations across industries. You'll be at the forefront of helping companies adopt Amazon's proven approaches to innovation and transformation, making a lasting impact on their business success.

The right candidate will have 10+ years experience delivering innovation, product development, or transformation engagements for enterprise customers. This includes demonstrated experience in developing digital innovation opportunities for customers, a proven track record of leading and driving multiple simultaneous projects to meet customer business objectives, excellent project management skills, a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, strong data and metrics bias, a good understanding of cloud solutions, and a passion for helping customers transform using cloud technologies.

Key job responsibilities

1. Develop C-suite and line-of-business relationships with leading innovators within customer organizations
2. Orchestrate and deliver end-2-end innovations and transformation engagements
3. Work with Sales leadership to identify and qualify customers for the Innovation Programs - Facilitate executive workshops, conduct customer briefings, present at customer events, further AWS solutions-led thought leadership in the innovation domain
4. Lead and coordinate the translation of those solutions into working cloud prototypes, working with relevant build teams, and partners where appropriate
5. Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree
2. Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
3. Solid understanding of innovation methodologies and translation from business strategy into execution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. MBA
2. Enterprise technology business development
3. Proven track record with Emerging Technologies (e.g. GenAI)
4. Experience in Management Consulting

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