• 12 + 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
• 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
• Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance (or equivalent work experience)

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team to help our customers accelerate out of their datacenters.

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. AWS is focusing on bringing even more of our innovative products and services to a wider array of customers, faster than ever. To accomplish this goal, SCE is working with our customers to evaluate how we can accelerate moving Customer’s workloads faster to the AWS cloud (i.e., Accelerate to the Cloud from your Data Center (ACDC)).

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 global deal team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders.

As a SCE ACDC Deal Lead, you will be responsible for developing the end-to-end holistic project strategy, including the implementation, modernization and value proposition to accelerate the customers AWS cloud adoption, and building a compelling business case for the Customer’s C-Suite. In addition, 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, AWS Partners and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve, address challenges, and to create innovative solutions.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead negotiations and customer closure for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals
• Develop the optimum implementation strategy for the customers to accelerate move to the cloud and this cover a 360 view of the project including but not limited to: 1) identify with the Pro Serve or partner team the optimal migration project balancing the re-platforming, modernization and refactoring needs 2) identify a mitigation plan for other direct or indirect blockers (e.g. internal team skillsets and training, assets or other contractual dependencies) and 3) identify the drivers to improve the holistic business case for the customer enabling a faster move to the cloud.
• Develop and shape the overall deal strategy and structure to meet customer business outcome and goals
• Qualify and shape the customer business case to ensure viable deal commercials for all stakeholders
• Contribute to developing AWS’s value proposition and solutions
• Drive revenue growth and Cloud adoption
• 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.)
• Act as a trusted advisor in the development of the commercial strategy of deals with AWS Field Sales Executives: partner in the execution of the sales cycle for strategic, complex, or highly competitive commercial opportunities
• Inspire, influence, and facilitate alignment with internal stakeholders, experts, and other resources not under direct control, to remove obstacles and achieve desired business outcomes
• Develop strategies for pricing and discounts; effectively communicate and identify deal blockers
• Lead or support presentation of deal proposals to Customers

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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