Strategic Customer Engagements, EMEA GTM Deal Lead, GDSP

Description

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 such as GenAI. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS (EMEA), 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 team and other Amazon and AWS stakeholders.

As a SCE Deal Lead, you will be responsible for managing the end to end Deal Cycle for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals. You will focus on earning trust with customers by creating actionable strategies, developing and shaping opportunities, and leading deal engagements through negotiations and closure. This highly visible role will own engagement with customer C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, pan-Amazon, and other strategic relationships. You will work collaboratively to drive results by partnering with AWS customers, AWS field sales executives, and other internal stakeholders to empower our customers to evolve, address challenges, and to create innovative solutions.

Key job responsibilities

Lead negotiations and customer closure for strategic, large, complex or highly competitive deals

Develop and shape the overall deal strategy and structure to meet customer business outcome and goals

Contribute to developing AWS's value proposition and solutions

Drive revenue growth and Cloud adoption

Closely collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization for (EMEA) regional sales teams, and related regional and global stakeholders (Service Teams, Finance, Legal, etc.)

Act as a trusted advisor in the development of the commercial strategy of deals with AWS Field Sales Executives: partner in the execution of the sales cycle for strategic, complex, or highly competitive commercial opportunities

Inspire, influence, and facilitate alignment with internal stakeholders, experts, and other resources not under direct control, to remove obstacles and achieve desired business outcomes

Develop strategies for pricing and discounts; effectively communicate and identify deal blockers

Lead or support presentation of deal proposals to Customers

Basic Qualifications

• Experience working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals from opportunity through closure
• Experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  
  

• Advanced degree in enginnering or equivalent
• Knowledge of AWS services
• Direct field experience with enterprise accounts