The Strategic Initiatives Lead (SIL) is a key member of the Industry and Partner Solutions COE, responsible for delivering new and increased capabilities and better end-to-end partner partner and customer experiences across AWS Partner and Specialist Organization (ASP). The I&PS COE mission is to create the most customer-obsessed industry, cross-industry, and service-centric capability to drive business outcomes through partners via solutions and services while improving partners' experience and profitability. The SIL works directly with APO teams, AGS/AWSI Field teams, and Partners to identify friction points, blockers, and forward-looking areas of opportunity. As part of qualifying and selecting initiatives to pursue, the SIL leads alignment of stakeholders, creation of the target-solution, and orchestration of required actions to enact change and drive the target outcome. The SIL will define metrics and stand-up the required mechanisms to inspect the initiatives, from which the SIL will enact necessary improvements as well as harvest learnings to feed into parallel and future initiatives.

Key job responsibilities
• Continuously gather APO, Partner, Field, and Customer insights to refine areas of focus for the I&PS COE strategy, ensuring I&PS COE efforts remain closely aligned to addressing customer and partner opportunities and challenges.
• Qualify the impact of candidate initiatives against partner cohorts and the worldwide partner community overall.
• Prioritize and align leadership to high-impact candidates to increase APO and partner performance.
• Design mechanisms, best practices, processes, and governance models to address gaps and opportunities in focus (strategic initiatives); leading the implementation and delivery of these strategic initiatives, via hands-on engagement with stakeholders and via orchestrating cross-functional teams.
• Uncover partner needs and Think Big ideas through participation in key partner meetings, primary research, and data analysis; leveraging these insights to ensure customer and partner needs are central to I&PS COE strategy and initiatives.
• Represent the I&PS COE across SMGS teams, where the I&PS COE has decision authority or a vested interest in the capabilities and capacity of the worldwide industry partner community.
• Apply partner and customer engagement expertise to aligning, planning, and constructing solutions for transformation programs and business acceleration initiatives.
• Direct participation in annual strategic plan processes.

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