Account Manager, GFS - Sales

AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage our global customer and partner relationship with a strategic Capital Markets financial services enterprise customer.

The Global Account Manager is responsible for partnering with the customer to build strategic relationships, articulate a clear vision and generate business value. Successful GAMs sell the most strategic level within the account and implement a broad strategy for earning customer acceptance and service implementation. They work with diverse AWS groups (executive, solutions architecture, business development, marketing, alliance partners, enterprise support, product teams and professional services) to support customer needs. This includes responsibility for downstream sales and technical resources. Developing formal case studies and other forms of references highlighting activity and workloads running on AWS is core to the role.

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Key job responsibilities
- Lead the AWS customer account team.
- Identify trusted advisor relationships with key customer contacts.
- Work with internal AWS teams (executives, solution architects, business development, marketing, partners, enterprise support, service teams and professional services), as well as external systems integrators and independent software vendors, to support the best business solution for customers.
- Define a CXO relationship strategy within the customer, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
- Exhibit strong leadership presence and command group meetings. Be seen as an authority in communicating via email, phone, and face-to-face. Write executive briefing documents for senior executives at the company.
- Operate with significant autonomy and discretion. A high degree of decision making is required in routine customer engagement; business judgment is critical.
- Manage sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitate stages of a sale.
- Participate and lead in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements and contracts.
- Maintain an operating knowledge of AWS’s service catalog and relate them to solving customers’ business problems.
- Help define product requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers. Feedback via product feature requests and the product/service teams.
- Work with marketing and communications to develop formal references, PR and case studies highlighting impactful customer activity and workloads running on AWS.

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