Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Partner with Account Teams, Business Development (BD), Delivery, Security, Finance, Operations, Contracting, and Legal to build winning, scalable, profitable, and operationally viable deal proposals.
• Facilitate non-standard, business-critical deals per month with material bottom-line impact.
• Develop long-term strategies and influence leadership decisions while also executing on team/department goals.
• Independently engage across multiple lines of business to identify gaps and set strategy to improve deal velocity, business growth, and profitability.
• Partner with ProServe BD and Sellers to strategize on the pipeline and identify potential deal levers.
• Work with Finance and Legal to build deal constructs with financial longevity, such as multi-year deals, different pricing structures, and specialized contract terms.
• Experiment with and then scale successful deal levers to enable field sellers for self-service.
• Advocate on behalf of deal strategies and plans with leadership to secure buy-in and proceed with customer negotiations.
• Leverage data analytics and modeling tools to make informed, data-driven decisions and provide actionable insights to senior management.
• Monitor key performance indicators, track progress against financial targets, and implement optimizations to drive performance.
A day in the life
As the DL you will work with leaders across ProServe and GS, managing end to end deal cycles for strategic, large, complex, or highly competitive deals. You will earn trust with both customers and internal stakeholders, negotiating investments, shaping deals and contract constructs, while making tradeoffs along the way to optimize customer and business outcomes through deals execution. You will own alignment with customer and internal executives across Sales, Business Development, Product, Offerings, Finance, Operations, and Legal teams and work collaboratively to transform opportunities into active customer engagements. This individual has a high aptitude for navigating ambiguity and a strong backbone to influence and negotiate to achieve joint outcomes and deliver short, mid, and long-term results.
About the team
The World-wide Global Services Deal Engine is a unified, cross-functional organization that drives a simplified, integrated, and structured strategy and approach from deal qualification, through negotiation and deal execution for GS customers requiring specialized deal facilitation. Deal Engine expertise across Commercial and NAMER Professional Services (ProServe), Training and Certification (T&C), Support, Partners, Security, and AWS Managed Services (AMS) drives sustained and incremental value through deals for customers throughout their cloud journey, whether they’re leveraging single or cross-GS services.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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?
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Work/Life Balance
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- 5+ years of professional or military 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
- MBA
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.