Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a global leader to join our Global System Integrators (GSI) partner team for the role of Global Senior Partner Development Manager – Strategic Initiatives . As the Global Partner Development Manager, you will have the exciting opportunity to develop and deliver on our Smart Manufacturing Initiative , drive GenAI adoption across Manufacturing Customers, increase ER&D services across different verticals with a key strategic, global consulting partner.

AWS partners & resellers include the largest software and systems integration companies (such as SAP, Adobe, Cognizant, Accenture, Deloitte, Wipro, PwC, TCS and others) as well as hundreds of innovative software and services companies who are using AWS as their cloud platform of choice. This role will focus on working with a single, global, strategic consulting partner and their AWS partner development managers to create large deal pipeline and win programs to support large enterprises on their transformation journey to AWS. Responsibilities include building C-level relationships at partner organizations and within AWS, creating long term vision statements and strategic plans to support your partner’s objectives to build cloud businesses, and establishing strategic agreements to execute on the shared plan that drives top line revenue growth through application modernization on AWS and joint GTM efforts worldwide. You will work with AWS technology partners to build or transform their business by engaging with C-level leaders, facilitating workshops, and driving to a particular business transformational outcome around smart manufacturing, IoT, GenAI and ER&D.

By establishing and growing business and technical relationships, and managing the day-to-day interactions with this strategic partner, you will be responsible for driving pipeline, new revenue growth, increased market adoption and the expansion of the partner’s largest global AWS migration opportunities . You will possess a business/sales background with a leading consulting or systems integrator that enables them to develop forward thinking initiatives that will create large and strategic partner led deals that have migrations to AWS cloud at its core with some experience in Manufacturing /IoT/Engineering Services . You will not only create and conceptualize tech programs, but also be able to manage their roll-out through their partner. You will think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, and can build strong industry relationships. You are an influencer by nature and must be seen as someone for which the partners are eager to engage.


Key job responsibilities
• Develop extensive executive and senior management relationships within partner organization; being viewed as a "trusted advisor"
• Developing a portfolio of large deals where smart manufacturing / ER&D services / IoT on AWS are key element with the strategic Partner and qualifying the most attractive opportunities based on proactive market screening, account targeting and business analysis techniques for potential engagement
• Create, articulate, and position an innovative and compelling vision and value proposition so that Partner executives clearly realize the financial benefits and transformational value to their customers business of migrating to AWS
• Develop a multi-year commercial value proposition to support large deals and migrations to AWS with the strategic Partner while managing complex contract negotiations and serve as a liaison to the legal group
• Help the partner set up their business to manage large scale migrations, supporting their customers overall journey to the Cloud
• Drive the co-development of new go-to-market solutions and opportunities with the partner
• Serve as a key member of AWS Global Partner Migration Program team in helping to define and deliver the AWS strategy to engage partners and drive large scale migrations with partners
• Manage revenue targets and work with the partner and AWS sales organizations to achieve/exceed goals
• Understand and exploit the use of salesforce.com and other internal AWS systems
• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team


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