Head of BD Teams, aws-anz-ags-specialist-team

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About Amazon Web Services

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. Would you like to make history in the world of cloud computing? Come and join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ANZ Specialist team.

The ANZ Head of BD Teams leads teams of business development specialists across programs and topics that inspire our ANZ commercial customers. Their teams work in partnership with the local sales team to accelerate adoption of AWS cloud across services, solutions and AWS offerings. This is a critical role reporting directly to the ANZ Specialist Leader, developing and implementing the plan for ANZ and the prioritization of BD resource investments and the GTM plans for current and future business development programs. This team currently leads two flagship business development programs and teams with high impact for the ANZ business; The Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) team, who help customers accelerate their large scale migration in to AWS, and generate in excess of $180m in forward committed large scale migration ARR growing at more than 20% per anum, and the Innovation Program (IP) team who educate and inspire customers with our Culture of Innovation, and lead customers through our Working Backwards process to define and prioritise how they will address some of their most impactful business and customer challenges. You will also play a key role in connecting our Specialist teams across the three domains of Core Services & Advanced Computing, Enterprise Aplications and Migration and Modernisation, and Data & AI to simplify how customers and our field teams access their specialist knowledge. AWS is looking for an accomplished leader with experience across product, business, and technology who has worked with large Enterprises and high-growth organizations to accelerate their cloud-native journey for the role of the Head of BD Teams. You'll also lead business development discussions with C-suite executives at our customers and partners. We're seeking a candidate with experience as a people leader in hiring and developing new and tenured team members.

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Key job responsibilities
• Interact at the CxO level, as well as developers and technical architects, to develop pipeline, secure lighthouse customers, drive top-line revenue, and explore strategic partnerships.
• Build, manage, and grow the MAP and Innovation Programs, setting and attaining ANZ and S-team goals in ANZ with your teams support.
• Develop and deploy programs that leverage AWS Field Sales teams, as well as technology and consulting partner channels. Go-to-market elements may include consultative workshops, sales/partner/customer enablement, solutions blueprints, customer proposal and offer development, internal and external collateral, Proofs of Concept (POC), incentives, target customers, and success measures.
• Create & articulate compelling value propositions that address the specific needs of your customers.
• Accelerate customer adoption through well-developed sales engagements and successful GTM Strategy.
• Drive revenue and market share by developing develop and executing goals to drive long term alignment with the ANZ Specialist Domain leaders and ANZ Commercial Sales Segment Leaders.
• Partner with cross functional teams across Solution Architecture, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, and Training and execute customer acquisition programs and strategies by defining and driving operational processes

A day in the life
Meet with customers and account managers for ANZ's most strategic customers to help them understand how to get started accelerating innovation and modernisation with our program teams. Review account plans for strategic customers, and lead pipeline review calls for Innovation and large scale migration invesments. Share updates on the business with customer segment leaders.

About the team
Diverse Experiences

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personal passions and we are proud to bring these to work. Life is short so we really live the
Amazon ethos of “work hard, have fun, make history.”

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
- Experience in developing, negotiating and executing business agreements
- Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders
- 10+ years of building and leading large teams and working in matrixed operating structures experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience selling to Fortune 1000 or Global 2000 organizations
- - Experience developing market insights related to cloud computing, IT and / or innovation practices or similar,
- - Experience building and developing high performing teams.

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