Would you like to be part of a high-growth team focused on increasing the adoption of Amazon Web Services to make a meaningful impact in the Higher Education market? Do you have the business savvy and technical background necessary to help establish Amazon as a key technology platform provider for large Research Universities? Amazon Web Services is expanding in the U.S. Public Sector market, and the Education team within Amazon offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work environment where you’ll be at the center of Amazon innovation for administrators, faculty, researchers, and students.
We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Sales Representative to focus on Research 1 (R1) Higher Education institutions in Pennsylvania. The ideal candidate has sales experience in this vertical with a terrific reputation for overachieving quota while focusing on the customer. They should also be a self-starter who is prepared to develop and execute against a territory plan and consistently deliver on quarterly targets. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to drive an engagement at the CXO level, as well as, with IT architects and leaders. The Enterprise Sales Representative will be an exceptionally strong and creative thinker who thrives in a team environment and embraces all aspects of selling. They must be able to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment and have very strong verbal and written communication skills.
Key job responsibilities
- Drive revenue and market share in a defined territory and industry vertical.
- Meet or exceed quarterly targets.
- Develop and execute against comprehensive account and territory plan.
- Create & articulate compelling value propositions around AWS services.
- Accelerate customer adoption.
- Maintain a robust sales pipeline.
- Work with partners to extend reach & drive adoption.
- Manage contract negotiations.
- Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts.
- Ensure customer satisfaction.
- This role will include moderate travel.
About the team
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of full sales cycle, technology sales or equivalent business development, sales engineering/consulting or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of technology platform sales with an understanding of government IT, data centers, cloud services and cloud adoption experience
- 5+ years of technology sales selling enterprise software, networking, infrastructure, managed hosting services, or cloud computing services experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong verbal and written communications skills. Good customer and partner network. Strong leadership skills. A technical background in engineering, computer science, or IT/MIS is a plus. Meets / Exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role. Meets / Exceeds Amazon’s functional, technical depth and complexity.
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