Global Account Manager

Company: Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Location: Chicago, IL

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  • A bachelor’s degree in business or technology or equivalent work experience.
  • The candidate must have a minimum of 12+ year’s experience working at a technology company as the lead account and relationship manager of a large global organization.

Global Account Manager

AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage our global customer relationship with one of the largest Consulting companies in the world.

The Global Account Manager will be responsible for providing global business leadership and management of this global account. You will build and maintain key relationships, develop and manage opportunities, monitor deployment projects and engage virtual resources. You will define a CXO relationship strategy within the account, including engaging with AWS senior leadership team for executive sponsorships, coordinating executive business reviews and maintain customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities:

The Global Account Manager is responsible for teaming with the customer’s IT Organization to build strategic relationships across the account, articulating a clear vision and generating enthusiasm, while impacting all business groups. The Global Account Manager is responsible for selling at the most strategic level within the account and implementing a broad strategy for earning customer acceptance and service implementation. The Global Account Manager will work with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives, Solution Architects, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, Support, Service teams and Professional Services) to support customer interests. This includes dotted line responsibility for downstream sales and technical resources that may be geographically distributed.

Development of formal case studies and other forms of references highlighting activity and workloads running on AWS is core to the role.

  • Experience as the primary account manager of a global federated enterprise working with multiple business units and influencing governance and policy is a plus.
  • A BA or BS degree in computer science, engineering, business, marketing, or related field (MBA preferred)
  • A minimum of 12+ years of enterprise selling experience in large global accounts.
  • Other experiences to include: experience in large complex deal negotiations with a successful track record; ability to navigate across AWS and the customer in a trusted advisor/consultative approach; and, establishing credibility quickly with senior level executives across the organizations.
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, analytical and presentation skills are required. Candidate must possess demonstrated decision making, problem solving, and negotiating skills.
  • A strong understanding of AWS and/or technology as a service (Iaas,SaaS,PaaS) would be preferred but not required.
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
  • Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role
  • This role can also be located in New York City

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.