SCE – Deal Specialist – Strategic Negotiations, SCE, APJ
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Deal Negotiator for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS (Americas/EMEA/APJ), and to establish AWS as customers' key cloud technology provider.
As a Deal Negotiator, you will analyze and develop deal terms, review and simplify complex scenarios, and craft elegant deal solutions. You will work with customers and internal stakeholders to define and communicate streamlined deal workflows, build consensus, and close commercial transactions. In this customer facing role, you will focus on AWS Private Pricing Agreements (PPAs) to formulate and close PPA’s, navigate the AWS approval process, coordinate critical phases of simultaneous and multiple deal cycles, and ensure consensus with all relevant stakeholders.
You will own alignment with C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, pan-Amazon, and other strategic relationships.
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Key job responsibilities
• Engage directly with the customer on commercial and contractual terms.
• Close commercial transactions: brief senior management and coordinate internal and customer stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment and effective AWS communication. Inspire and influence internal stakeholders, experts, and other indirect resources to remove obstacles, resolve conflict for productive engagements.
• Execute deal and competitive structures: maximize the value of opportunities consistent with AWS objectives and requirements.
• Advise and provide thought leadership on the execution of competitive commercial, channel, and partner deal opportunities.
• Provide expertise on deal structuring and advise key stakeholders on the impact of deal terms: provide creative solutions to the customer, the AWS sales field, and leadership.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 10 + years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure
• 10+ years of experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
• Proven legal expertise on large and complex IT commercial deal terms
• Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance (or equivalent work experience)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Legal qualification preferred
• Commercial contract experience within IT/software services
• Knowledge of the Cloud market and AWS
• Multilingual is a plus