Partner Go to Market Deal Lead, Strategic Customer

10+ years of technology related deal team or complex sales environment experience
- 5+ years of experience in business consulting, strategic collaboration deals with technology and/or services partners

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small

Do you have an aptitude for analyzing opportunities and creating innovative business deals? Can you take complex scenarios and simplify them down to the essentials while building consensus across broad stakeholder groups?

**Strategy**: This individual will work with the Partner and Account Team to set objectives, analyze key data and ensure executive alignment and governance. The individual will be able to provide advice on the competitive situation and create an actionable strategy.

**Structure**: You will be able understand the business objectives and create a structure that maximizes the value of the opportunity and achieving’s business objectives.

**Negotiations**: You will be experienced with customer negotiations, including commercial aspects of the deal structure. The individual understands the impact of business terms and pricing and provide alternative solutions.

**Closure**: Will be able to bring to closure in partnership with the customer and partner/account team any contractual/legal matters for the deal, including assisting briefing senior management.

Key job responsibilities
- Act as trusted advisor and thought leader in the development of the strategy and execution of the GTM deal cycle (strategy, structuring, negotiation, and closure) for strategic, complex, or highly competitive partner and channel opportunities.
- Inspires and influences internal stakeholders, experts and other resources not under direct control, helping to remove obstacles and aiming goals achievement.
- Facilitates alignment and effective AWS communication within sales team and internal/external key partners/customers and promptly resolve any conflict to encourage harmonious and productive interaction.
- Facilitates individual growth and development of Sales management, setting objectives, performance standards and priorities, coaching and acting as role model on sales approaches and account leadership.
- Cultivate best practices through analysis and reporting in support of continuous improvement.
- Work with key internal stakeholders (e.g. AWS Partner Organization. operations, legal, etc.) as needed.

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Sydney, NSW, AUS
- Advanced degree or equivalent relevant experience
- Direct field experience and knowledge of AWS products and services
- Understanding of the Global /SI business model and ISV partnerships
- Strong English written and verbal presentation skills and the ability to articulate complex concepts to cross-functional audiences.

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