Senior Partner Development Manager, Portugal Sector: Distribution and Warehouse, Technology
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
DESCRIPTION
Would you like to be part of a team that is redefining the IT industry? Amazon Web Services is leading the next paradigm shift in computing and is looking for world-class candidates to help manage AWS partnerships in Portugal. Do you have the business savvy and industry expertise necessary to position Amazon as the technology platform of the future?
As a Partner Development Manager within Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will have the exciting opportunity to deliver on strategy to help build mind share and adoption of our services across AWS's key business partners and their customers.
Your responsibilities will include driving executive and field relationships with leading system integrators and consulting firms. By establishing and growing business and technical relationships, and managing the day-to-day interactions with these accounts, you will be responsible for driving top-line revenue growth and overall end customer adoption across all market segments.
The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to engage at the CxO level, as well as a sales background that enables them to easily interact with customers and account management/field reps. He/she should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions.
Key job responsibilities
Help manage and drive joint engagements between SIs, AWS Partner and Account Management Teams.
Work with regional and country Partner Success Management, and AWS account teams in a highly collaborative operating model to help develop pipeline specific to the assigned SI.
Support partners on solution support & pricing constructs.
Liaise with the Partner's field sales organization, channels and end customers to help create and drive revenue opportunities for AWS.
Help build a strategic business development plan for target markets and ensure it is in line with the AWS strategic direction.
Help execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders.
Identify specific customer segments and industry verticals to approach with a joint value proposition for using AWS.
Work closely with the partner's customer base to ensure they are successful using AWS.
Ensure that AWS is the partner's preferred cloud computing platform across all product lines.
Understand and exploit the use of internal Amazon systems.
Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team.
Provide help during contract negotiations and serve as a liaison to the legal group.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Significant experience in partner management, sales, business development.
- Experience building industry and workload specific value propositions and integrating them in regional sales GTM.
- Experience developing detailed annual GTM plans and executing against specific goals while driving governance and other mechanisms to drive accountability both on the partner side as well as internally at AWS.
- Deep sales experience and discipline to generate new opportunities with strong focus on pipeline tracking and deal execution through the entire sales cycle.
- Consistently exceeds quota and key performance metrics.
- Demonstrated ability to engage and influence C-level executives.
- Strong presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional audiences.
- Proven experience driving revenue through partners with structured programs.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's Degree in business or related field.
- Visible IT Industry thought leadership on relevant topics related to enterprise IT infrastructure and adoption.
- Experience working with/for complex Systems Integrators and knowing the market landscape.
- Broad based technology experience including cloud computing, big data and analytics, networking, security, storage and ongoing infrastructure management.
- Bilingual English-Portuguese speaker.
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