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.

AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage our global customer and partner relationship with a strategic Payment financial services enterprise customer.

The Account Manager is responsible for growing the AWS footprint within the Global Fin Serv Accounts segment. The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables them to successfully build and maintain relationships, advise customers on AWS cloud solutions, grow AWS usage across a defined set of customers, develop innovative programs, and expand platform adoption to new business units. The candidate also will have a good understanding of the Payments industry. A successful candidate will work with external contacts (prospects, customers, partners) and collaborate with internal account teams (Global Account Managers, Solution Architect, SDMS, TAMs) to consistently meet and exceed sales quotas.

This is a strategic role for practiced account managers seeking key experience selling to large, multinational enterprise-level accounts.



Key job responsibilities
- Identifying and building trusted advisor relationships with key influencers and decision-makers, specifically CxOs, at the customer.
- Working closely with internal AWS teams (executives, solution architects, business development, marketing, partners, enterprise support, service teams and professional services), as well as external SI and ISV partners, to support the best business solution for customers.
- Defining a CXO relationship strategy within the customer, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
- They should have a strong leadership presence and be able to command a room in a meeting.
- Operating with significant autonomy and discretion. A high degree of decision making is required in routine customer engagement, business judgment is critical.
- Managing the sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitating all stages of a sale.
- Participates and leads in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements, such as EAs, and contracts, such as PPAs.
- Maintains an operating knowledge of AWS’s service catalog and is able to relate them to solving customers’ business problems.
- Helps define product requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers.
- Working with marketing and communications to develop formal references, PR and case studies highlighting impactful customer activity and workloads running on AWS.



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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.

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