Director, AMER Strategy & Operations

Amazon Web Services ("AWS") enable customers of all sizes to run their applications on Amazon’s industry-leading cloud computing infrastructure. AWS is growing very rapidly with over a million companies in over 190 countries on the platform. This growth is driving the need for an experienced Sales Strategy, Operations, and Enablement (SSOE) leader.

Amazon has a strong culture of data-driven decision-making; requiring timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence that delivers significant business value. We're looking for a hands-on and motivated self-starter who's passionate about using data to help us measure every area of the business and influence decision-making.

In this role, the Director, AMER Strategy & Operations will develop and execute the strategy, continuously evolve forecasting models, analyze historic results and be a trusted partner to the VP AMER making recommendations based on those analyses – all in an environment of hyper-scaling growth and increasing complexity. As a member of the AMER leadership team, this role will be working with regional AWS leaders across multiple functions to develop, implement and manage the business processes, systems, reports and strategies that optimize Business functions to meet organizational goals and initiatives.

The role will drive the management cadence of the business including mechanisms such as OP1/2; 2x2; and weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting. The role drives improvements and updates to the reporting tools, methods, and processes utilized by the team to increase the availability and granularity of actionable data for our customers. This position also manages the proposal, administration and execution of the regional targets and goals, headcount plans, including market segmentation and proposing improvements to the business to increase its effectiveness in driving desired results.

This role leads a large, multi-layered organization that spans direct reporting functions including operations, sales strategy, sales incentive, and customer and sales enablement teams. Warehouse/Business Intelligence, Business Development, Finance, Human Resources, Marketing, Recruiting, and Compensation teams are critical extended stakeholder teams.

Key job responsibilities
The successful candidate will be an excellent organizational and people leader, who can hire and develop the best talent across their organization including coaching and developing senior direct reports. They will be a superb written and verbal communicator. They will be comfortable presenting to the senior AWS leadership and influencing regional and global stakeholders across the Sales organization. They will be able to see round corners by identifying critical internal and external trends, they will be detail orientated, with a passion for inventing and simplifying to deliver operational excellence at scale. They will work backwards from their internal and external customers, they will be able to roll-up their sleeves working directly with models and data as well as ideating and driving strategic priorities for the region. Success in this role will be defined by the following key areas:
• Key partner of VP AMER and regional leadership team.
• Work with senior leadership to define strategy and run the management cadence for the business.
• Define the key sales support systems/processes required to meet the rapid growth of the business and achieve revenue attainment and market development objectives.
• Collaborate on the design, development, maintenance, and delivery/presentation of forecasting models, metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards to drive key business decisions.
• Lead initiatives across the WW Operations group and be an active participant on this team.
• Working with leadership, lead the initial proposal of annual goals, budgeting and ongoing forecasting processes.
• Lead the development and provision of routine and ad-hoc analytic reports to senior management regarding, business development initiatives, customer segment performance, performance against goals, etc. Ensure reports contribute to business insight and decision-making, and minimize overall report burden.
• Lead the modelling and development of recommendations.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of existing and emerging 3rd party data sources as needed for analytics.