Business Development Mgr, T&C, Business Development, AWS Global Services - Training & Certification

Amazon.com, Inc.•New York, NY

50d

About The Position

Would you like to lead and grow as a Business Development Manager focused on helping our customers accelerate the adoption of Amazon Web Services through our Training & Certification services? Do you have experience building and developing a programs organization responsible for our skills transformation programs, certification, channel training and internal training? Do you deeply understand how AWS training and skills transfer to our customers can help them get started quickly on our platform, dramatically improve their operational efficiency, and help them leverage new AWS services to innovate? Can you lead a team to evangelize these benefits and many more to both internal and external customers? If so, this role might be an amazing growth opportunity for you. AWS is seeking a Business Development Manager to help us maintain our leadership position as our customers' preferred cloud platform. The role focuses on selling our Training and Certification services. This team, which you will lead and build daily operations of, is critical to helping our customers accelerate their adoption of AWS cloud services. The ideal candidate will have clearly documented success in owning, defining, and executing programmatically against the needs and strategic priorities. Specifically experience with technical certification programs, authorized channel programs, and enterprise skill programs, which provide the right candidate the foundation for success. They should be familiar with customer challenges related to cloud adoption, and have experience helping customers overcome those challenges. They should deeply understand the business benefits of cloud computing compared to client owned/managed on-premise data center resources. They can clearly demonstrate through their career that they have built deep customer trust and delivered big results by helping create and execute long-term transformational training programs. They will be willing to operate both tactically, but can quickly zoom out to lead the organization with big, strategic thinking. They will have strong business acumen and regularly demonstrate to senior leadership their operational rigor. This candidate will have the opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of our Training and Certification services. Therefore, experience influencing product roadmaps will be important.

Requirements

5+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
Experience selling enterprise software or cloud-based applications
Experience presenting to both technical and non-technical executive audiences
Bachelor's degree, or experience in an industry role

Nice To Haves

Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements
Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules