Do you have an aptitude for analyzing opportunities and creating innovative business deals? Can you take complex scenarios and simplify them down to the essentials while building consensus across broad stakeholder groups?

Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) is seeking a Senior Deal Lead to drive engagement and manage the various critical phases of the Deal Cycle (Strategy, Structuring, Negotiations, and Closure) for Strategic Collaborations. This role has Americas responsibility, is highly partner and customer facing, and will work closely with Amazon customers, partners, Partner Network (APN) programs teams, partner segment leaders, and sales leaders. The ideal candidate will possess a deal strategist and negotiator background, technology sales and partner experience, and be a proven collaborator across multiple stakeholders including engaging at senior partner/customer levels.

Strategy: This individual will work with the Partner and Account Team to set objectives, analyze key data and ensure executive alignment and governance. The individual will be able to provide advice on the competitive situation and create an actionable strategy.

Structure: You will be able understand the business objectives and create a structure that maximizes the value of the opportunity and achieving business objectives.

Negotiations: You will be experienced with customer negotiations, including commercial aspects of the deal structure. The individual understands the impact of business terms and pricing and provide alternative solutions.

Closure: Will be able to bring to closure in partnership with the customer and partner/account team any contractual/legal matters for the deal, including assisting briefing senior management.

Key job responsibilities
• Act as trusted advisor and thought leader in the development of the strategy and execution of the GTM deal cycle (strategy, structuring, negotiation, and closure) for strategic, complex, or highly competitive partner and channel opportunities.
• Inspires and influences internal stakeholders, experts and other resources not under direct control, helping to remove obstacles and aiming goals achievement.
• Facilitates alignment and effective AWS communication within sales team and internal/external key partners/customers and promptly resolve any conflict to encourage harmonious and productive interaction.
• Facilitates individual growth and development of Sales management, setting objectives, performance standards and priorities, coaching and acting as role model on sales approaches and account leadership.
• Ensures disciplined sales methodology application across management groups, resulting in consistent and accurately forecasted financial result
• Cultivate best practices through analysis and reporting in support of continuous improvement.
• Work with key internal stakeholders (e.g. AWS Partner Organization. operations, legal, etc.) as needed.

About the team
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

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