National Public Sector Sales Lead – AWS Practice

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Sales Lead for AWS Public Sector focused on growth and strategy in Higher Education, Government, and Non-Profit sectors. Building relationships and driving sales strategy with AWS partners.

Responsibilities:

  • Formulate a sales strategy for each AWS Public Sector target segment including Higher Education, State & Local Government, Edtech/GovTech, and NPO
  • Drive the sales of professional services, accelerators and solutions, forecast accurately and achieve strategic goals by leading customers through the entire business cycle.
  • Build and deepen executive relationships within the AWS regional and practice ecosystem to drive new business opportunities.
  • Influence long-term strategic direction with customers and serve as a business partner to them
  • Manage entire complex sales-cycles, often presenting to C-level executives.
  • Lead account strategy in generating and developing business growth opportunities, working collaboratively with Internal GTM and AWS alliance teams - all to maximize business results in territory and open up opportunities with customers.
  • Actively understand each customer’s technology footprint, strategic growth plans and business drivers, technology strategy and landscape.
  • Create proposals and Statements of Work in collaboration with the Delivery team
  • Drive deal profitability
  • Measure customer satisfaction and be the ‘voice of the customer’

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 10 years of direct Public Sector sales and sales leadership experience
  • Professional Services sales leadership experience management experience within a non-product consulting company
  • A minimum of 10 years Professional Services sales experience (not as part of a software company)
  • Experience selling through/with AWS sellers and the partner organization
  • Experience working with AWS customers and having existing relationships with key AWS Public Sector Sellers is a plus
  • Experience with data & analytics, cloud migrations, application modernization, and AI/ML projects solving various use cases
  • Ability to work with internal GTM Pre-sales Team to lead Sales effort across AWS Public Sector segments
  • Experience working with senior (C-level) executives to influence decisions at the executive level
  • AWS Cloud technical expertise and customer service delivery experience
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and successfully manage global distributed teams across cultures, lines of business, and geographies
  • Possesses a strong executive presence and leadership ability, with communication and interpersonal skills that inspire and motivate leaders and teams
  • Demonstrate excellence in analytical thinking, problem solving, communication, delegation, planning & organization and judgment
  • Possesses outstanding written and oral communication
  • Demonstrate agility in responding to evolving business priorities and be aligned with ambiguity
  • Willing and able to address escalated client issues with speed and urgency
  • Bachelors degree, MBA is preferred
  • Candidate must reside in the East or Central regions of US with the ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Benefits:

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities