Strategic Sales Centre Leader

15+ years of experience in consulting sales with 5+ years in supporting large complex strategic opportunities
- Demonstrated success in shaping and closing large, strategic, complex deals and proven success in ensuring delivery of the deal was successful.
- Experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal.
- Analytical and presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred

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.

A Strategic Sales Centre Leader within AWS Professional Services you will lead a team of AWS professionals (Strategic Pursuit Leaders, Customer Delivery Architects, Bid & Proposal Managers and Deal Analysts) who work with customers and the wider AWS organization on strategic, large, complex opportunities to enable AWS adoption. You will be involved in the critical phases of the sales life-cycle and work with both internal and external stakeholders at C-level, IT, and various lines of business to deliver their business outcomes. You will work with leaders in the private pricing, go-to-market, pan-Amazon, AWS services teams in designing, shaping and closing large transformational deals. You will work with the partner organisations in establishing the right delivery structure for large programs and accounts

Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team of AWS professionals - Strategic Pursuit Leaders, Customer Delivery Architects, Bid & Proposal Managers and Deal Analysts to deliver large/complex transformational deals
- Work with GEO leads to meet annual sales booking goals, drive GTM and seller enablement initiatives to drive AWS growth through pipeline creation
- Partner with ProServe leaders, Partner organizations, Sales counterparts and Strategic Customer Engagement teams to define the right structure for execution of large complex deals
- Work in collaboration with local ProServe sales leaders, build strategic alliances with senior customer leaders and co-develop pursuit strategy by bringing the wider AWS offerings and services to create differentiated solutions for large strategic accounts
- Lead cross functional pursuit teams and drive momentum on key deliverables to drive sales velocity
- Establish mechanisms and frameworks for strategic pursuits that are repeatable and enable ProServe leaders to build a pipeline of large deals
- Provide feedback to Sales and Delivery Excellence function on necessary process improvements and determine tools and enablers required to create self-service mechanisms for field teams
- Ensure smooth handover of closed deals to ProServe delivery leads for seamless execution

This role is part of senior leadership team in ProServe and is seeking senior sales leaders with experience of shaping and strategizing large consulting deals and managing large accounts

About the team
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Singapore, SGP
- Direct field experience in working with large enterprise accounts
- Knowledge of AWS products and services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills