• 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor's degree

At Amazon, our mission is to be the earth’s most customer-centric company. To achieve this, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is continuously evolving, and is a place where motivated employees thrive, and where employee ownership and accountability lead to meaningful results.

As a full-time Lead, Strategic Initiatives you will lead and manage strategic projects to understand and uncover new business opportunities or solve our biggest challenges for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). You will have the exciting opportunity to work cross-functionally and cross-geographically to identify problems and gaps, collect and analyze data, generate insights, come up with solutions, and implement them. You will execute on your proposed business strategies to solve difficult problems and remove blockers for our customers and our business. You will independently manage projects and run programs to deliver value for our business. To do so, you will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders such as sales, operations, and marketing teams. Through leading initiatives across Asia-Pacific, you will gain a unique insight into the internal workings of the world’s fastest growing billion dollar IT organization.

Who are we looking for?
We hire builders and are looking for people who enjoy problem solving and driving initiatives that can create huge impact for our customers and business.

The ideal candidate:

• Has strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to lead and drive initiatives
• Has a track record for of driving operational excellence and landing and sustaining change
• Is creative and able to innovate and simplify process
• Is curious to learn and comfortable with ambiguity and a highly fluid environment
• Has good communications skills
• Is analytical and has strong financial/business acumen
• Has a “can-do” spirit with a strong sense of ownership to execute end-to-end projects
• Has outstanding interpersonal skills and is able to earn trust and influence others
• Is independent and comfortable with navigating ambiguity
• Is highly organized and can multi-task and prioritize competing stakeholder requests
• Uses a customer-centric approach to solve problems
• Thrives in a lean, fast-paced, entrepreneurial, multi-cultural environment
• Has a passion for AWS and driving cloud computing adoption across Asia-Pacific

A day in the life
The Innovation and Transformation team is the primary custodian of the business strategy dialogue, steward of key growth acceleration and innovation projects as part of the VP office for APJ AGS. The team works backwards from market forces to build the vision and business strategy for APJ, defining the big go-to-market (GTM) and innovation bets and supporting experimentation to capture and accelerate growth.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, 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 Amaze Con (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.

• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
• Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements