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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for an experienced Business Development professional who is eager to promote the strategic growth and to shape the future of a world which leverages cloud computing.

You will engage with enterprise clients' CXO/VP level strategically as well as closely collaborate with software developers, IT infrastructure, software designers, architects, data scientists, product development for AWS Cloud and AI/ML adoption. You must also be a self-starter and strategic thinker who is able to initiate and scale up business development and accelerate business progress by enabling the diverse strategic engagements with different key stakeholders in enterprises with a strong execution capability and fear-free to think out of box to find the innovative approach for helping our customers to handle the business and technical challenges.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage and develop hi-tech territory of strategic named accounts - containing a mix of existing enterprise customers and net new prospects
• Develop and execute against a comprehensive territory plan to speed up business development and deepen the strategic cooperation foundation with enterprise customers
• Influence (or impact) customer adoption, through consultative selling, thought leadership, executive relationship development and sell-in of professional services from customer’s perspective
• Work with AWS partners to extend reach & drive adoption
• Maintain and deliver results against a set of defined revenue and non-revenue targets by obsessing our customers to support them for reaching the success

In a short, you are not only focusing on Business Development to achieve the defined business KPIs but also acting as a Customer Ambassador to assure their success by adopting the right AWS solutions to solve their business and technical pain-points and to drive their business competitiveness.

A day in the life
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About the team
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Basic qualifications

• Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service, or experience in managing and troublshooting network and experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
• Experience in a business-to-business (B2B) environment, high-tech products/services
• 10+ years of full sales cycle, technology sales or equivalent business development, sales engineering/consulting or equivalent experience

Preferred qualifications

• Experience using Salesforce or other CRM tool
• Experience in direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives

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