Retail, Food Service / QSR, & Consumer Goods Business Development - NAMER, Worldwide Retail & Consumer Goods BD
DESCRIPTION
As a business development leader for Retail & Consumer Goods at AWS, you will have an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver the strategy and solutions in sectors including food, beverage, health, beauty, fashion, apparel, grocery, drug, convenience, and consumer durables. You will lead engagements with customer executives, working backwards from their corporate goals to identify how AWS can help transform their enterprise. You will also work with customer account teams to understand and overcome specific hurdles our customers face. You will provide thought-leadership to help solve the biggest challenges in the industry. Finally, you will build ways to track customer impact, and use your experience to help scale the AWS Retail & Consumer Goods value proposition.
In this role you will work with cross-functional teams as part of the program delivery and development. This includes corporate business development, solutions architects, marketing, ISV and SI partners, professional services, sales enablement, and sales operations.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will have a business development or consulting background, experience selling and implementing large-scale projects, a track record of thought leadership in Retail, QSR / Restaurants and/or Consumer Goods and a strong understanding of the technology landscape. In addition, you should have a documented history of thinking strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions. We seek a clear point of view about the industry, expressed with an authoritative and distinctive voice. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and scrappiness is a must.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Extensive technical sales or business development, management consulting, product management, and solutions development experience
- Retail, Food Service, QSR, Restaurants and/or Consumer Goods industry thought-leader as demonstrated in market
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Technology Management Consulting: Prior experience leading management consulting and/or technology implementations in the industry, either as a vendor or as an enterprise customer. Not just selling – detailed technical delivery.
- Products and Solutions: Experience with software and product development practices and fundamentals of cloud computing including data, analytics, AI, ML, Generative AI, storage, distributed compute.
- Sales and Business Development: Tactical experience selling within the technology industry, particularly to Retail, Food Service, Restaurants / QSR, and Consumer Goods companies.
- Industry: Domain knowledge of key applications and technology provider landscape with ability to go deep on relevant technologies.
- Foundation: The right person will be analytical and data-driven, and demonstrate balanced strategy and planning, and execution skills.
- Education: Technical background with Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Science or similar degree a plus.
- MBA or equivalent background preferred.
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.