SCE Deal Lead APJ, SCE APJ

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Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Sector: Distribution and Warehouse, Technology

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team.

SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities such as GenAI. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS (Americas/EMEA/APJ), and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider. These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders.

As a SCE Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end Deal Cycle 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 engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business 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.

Key Job Responsibilities:

1. Lead negotiations and customer closure for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals
2. Develop and shape the overall deal strategy and structure to meet customer business outcome and goals
3. Contribute to developing AWS's value proposition and solutions
4. Drive revenue growth and Cloud adoption
5. Closely collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization for (Americas/EMEA/APJ) regional sales teams, and related regional and global stakeholders (Service Teams, Finance, Legal, etc.)
6. Act as a trusted advisor in the development of the commercial strategy of deals with AWS Field Sales Executives
7. Inspire, influence, and facilitate alignment with internal stakeholders, experts, and other resources not under direct control, to remove obstacles and achieve desired business outcomes
8. Develop strategies for pricing and discounts; effectively communicate and identify deal blockers
9. Lead or support presentation of deal proposals to Customers

1. 8 + 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
2. 12+ 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
3. Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance (or equivalent work experience)

1. Advanced degree or equivalent relevant experience
2. Direct field experience in working with enterprise accounts
3. Knowledge of AWS products and services
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
5. Fluent English required, other languages a plus

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