ACDC – SCE – Deal Lead – AMER Team
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Lead for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team to help our customers accelerate out of their datacenters.

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SCE is a specialized global deal team that engages with commercial and public sector customers on deal strategy, structuring, and negotiations through contractual closure for transformational, strategic, large, complex, and/or highly competitive opportunities. AWS is focusing on bringing even more of our innovative products and services to a wider array of customers, faster than ever. To accomplish this goal, SCE is working with our customers to evaluate how we can accelerate moving Customer's workloads faster to the AWS cloud (i.e., Accelerate to the Cloud from your Data Center (ACDC)).

This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS (Americas/EMEA/APJ), and to establish AWS as their key cloud technology provider. These opportunities range across industry verticals, such as Financial Services, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Healthcare Life Sciences, Automotive and Manufacturing, and Public Sector, and customer size (from start-ups to enterprise customers). These engagements may also involve Pan-Amazon and AWS go-to-market opportunities involving close partnership between the SCE global deal team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations and customer closure for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals
• Develop the optimum implementation strategy for the customers to accelerate move to the cloud and this cover a 360 view of the project including but not limited to: 1) identify with the ProServe or partner team the optimal migration project balancing the re-platforming, modernization and refactoring needs 2) identify a mitigation plan for other direct or indirect blockers (e.g. internal team skillsets and training, assets or other contractual dependencies) and 3) identify the drivers to improve the holistic business case for the customer enabling a faster move to the cloud.
• Develop and shape the overall deal strategy and structure to meet customer business outcome and goals
• Qualify and shape the customer business case to ensure viable deal commercials for all stakeholders
• Contribute to developing AWS's value proposition and solutions
• Drive revenue growth and Cloud adoption
• Closely collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization for (Americas/EMEA/APJ) regional sales teams, and related regional and global stakeholders (Service Teams, Finance, Legal, etc.)

Minimum Requirements

• 12+ years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure
• 12+ years of experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
• Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance (or equivalent work experience)
• Advanced degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Direct field experience in working with enterprise accounts
• Knowledge of AWS products and services
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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