Location: Chicago,IL, USA
Description
Do you want to be part of worlds most customer-centric company and its leading brand of cloud services? Do you enjoy business development and designing strategies to enable long-term business viability? Do you have expertise in executing strategies to scale through automation? Do you love analyzing large scale data and driving simplification and strategic decisions? Are you great at cross functional coordination and building consensus around policies and practices? Can you take complex scenarios and simplify them down to the essentials, that are easy to understand? Are you good at defining and communicating streamlined and standardized deal workflows, and building consensus around approaches? If the answer is yes to all, this is a perfect role for you.
AWS Training and Certification (T&C) is looking to welcome the next deals leader to the Global Services (GS) strategic deals team. This is a unique opportunity to drive go to market (GTM) with customers across all phases of their cloud journeys, unlocking opportunities for high-growth and scale both for AWS and customers.
The T&C Deal Lead (DL) is a member of the Global Services Deals Engine (GSDE) organization responsible for driving T&C deal strategies and execution through deals globally. The DL overcomes GTM challenges through innovative deal structures to enable growth of the business.
The ideal candidate has a background in sales, business operations, finance, and a background that enables them to establish practices that reflect the best interests of the business and our customers. The candidate will have the financial depth and business experience to easily communicate the economic benefits of T&C products and solutions to executives, assist Sales teams in making the right recommendations and serve as a commercial subject matter expert while negotiating with customers. The individual will operate autonomously and wear many hats with a need to work cross-functionally with all Go-to-Market teams, including, T&C Leadership, Sales, Business Development, Product, Finance, Legal, Business Operations, and other teams to solution on behalf of our customers and our business. The individual will have a mind for automation and process optimization, consistently influencing technical partners to deliver solutions to help drive deal velocity and scale. They will identify creative solutions to T&C adoption and develop repeatable strategies and models that scale. The ability to be influential, adaptable, and work cross-organizationally is a must, and the successful candidate will have a keen sense of ownership and drive results. The individual will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to present the complex in a clear and concise manner to senior management.
Key job responsibilities
Operate comfortably in an environment with consistent ambiguity.
Develop deal strategy and mental models and assist with complex contract negotiations and escalations.
Work cross-functionally with various stakeholders including but not limited to Sales, Business Development, Contracting, Finance, Legal, Security, and Compliance to address custom deal requirements.
Quickly address current state cross-functional process bottlenecks for the team and collaborate with product to design/implement our future state to address scalability and repeatability and drive automation and continuous improvement.
Work closely with sales and sales ops teams to collaborate on deal strategy, provide visibility into process and progress, and quickly execute to solve deal problems.
Contribute to iterative design for Deals Team BI analytics for T&C leadership and management for quarterly business reviews and reporting.
Build new/improving existing data reporting and processes. Report on monthly, quarterly, and annual performance metrics and business forecasts for your region.
Source, analyze, and report on quantitative data; perform ad-hoc analyses.
Analyze trends, formulate projections, create financial models, and evaluate alternatives to solution on behalf of our customers and our business.
Provide fact-based insights into variances and trends.
A day in the life
Develop new ideas and creative solutions.
Quickly build credibility and trust with internal and external customers.
Work successfully in an ambiguous environment.
Meet tight deadlines and prioritize workload.
Work on cross-functional teams.
Focus on customers and work backwards.
Create detailed financial models and perform self-directed analysis.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 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
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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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.