Amazon Partnerships, Executive Engagement Lead, Amazon CorpBD

Would you like to help our most strategic corporate partners engage with Amazon? Do you have experience and passion in event and senior executive meeting preparation and partner management programs? The Amazon Corporate Business Development team is expanding our capabilities around executive engagement with Amazon’s most strategic partners. This role will work closely with our corporate business development managers, executive (C-suite) offices, and marketing event team to raise the bar in how we execute communications, messaging, meeting preparation, action tracking and follow-up to ensure impact and results. The successful candidate will be a self-starter that thrives in ambiguity, with the ability to manage through influence, and a willingness to dive deep and define methods and operational mechanisms, while earning trust with internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated history of success managing C-level communications and is capable of engaging with cross-functional teams. The candidate will possess a strong customer-first mindset, analytical skill-set, and have a track record for operating consistently and at high quality in a structured manner. This role will be highly visible at the most senior levels within Amazon, and offers a unique opportunity for candidates who want to design, build, and scale programs with meaningful impact across Amazon business units. We seek candidates with a mix of executive engagement, writing/editing, and program management experience, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and experience in a partner/BD function. Experience building and delivering programs and bringing them to scale is a must, along with a strong aptitude for learning new things and diving deep. The right candidate is a highly effective written and oral communicator and editor who has high judgement and EQ, and is comfortable in a hands-on role that requires working against tight deadlines, and "rolling up one’s sleeves to get the job done”.

Key job responsibilities
- Managing executive briefing documents designed to prepare Amazon’s senior leaders for meetings with counterparts at our partner companies (CEO/CXO level), either as one-to-ones, or in preparation for events (many meetings over several days).
- Build repeatable programs for world-class meeting and event preparation, including alignment with account teams, and other internal Amazon business unit teams.
- Help define and improve processes to streamline this work area/program, leveraging new and existing tools and project management techniques.
- Active tracking of all meetings, action items, follow-ups and events during the course of the year, with responsibility for proactive communication and engagement with teams required in preparation of executive messaging, and up-to-date insights and relevant updates.
- Defining and delivering quantifiable results demonstrating success and impact of the program and meeting outcomes.
- Establishing mechanisms, tools, and processes that promote effective collaboration internally and externally while earning trust with partner teams and internal Amazon stakeholders.

A day in the life
Working closely with the CorpBD team, and C-Suite offices, the role will work to prepare work-back project times lines and schedules, internal communications, and all aspects of briefing doc quality and event preparation. Responsible for bar-raising the quality of documents, proofreading, thoroughness and appropriate level of messaging and data required for high-caliber meetings. In many cases, working on tight deadlines will be required, and collaborating across teams to gather and inspect the level and quality of messaging required to prepare a successful meeting and agenda of topics. The role will feed insights and learning back to the core partner program to support ongoing improvement and learning.

About the team
The Partner Programs team within Amazon Corporate Business Development is responsible for supporting Amazon’s most strategic partnership relationships, and for scaling partnership management excellence across all relationships managed within CorpBD. The team focuses on driving long term value for Amazon through holistic strategic partnerships with industry leading companies with whom we have shared interests, cultural compatibility, and unique potential to create enduring value for end customers. We aim to accomplish this by establishing and fostering multi-year top-to-top relationships, effective executive engagements, and driving transformational impact for Amazon, our partners, and the customers we serve.