Global Account Manager, AWS Retail/Restaurants/CPG

AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage our global customer relationships with our largest retail companies in the world.

The Global Account Manager will be co-responsible for providing global business leadership and management of several global accounts that at HQ in America. You will build and maintain key relationships, develop and manage opportunities, monitor deployment projects and engage virtual resources. You will define a CxO relationship strategy within the account, including engaging with AWS senior leadership team for executive sponsorships, coordinating executive business reviews and maintain customer satisfaction

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Key job responsibilities

The GAM is co-responsible for teaming with the customer's C-suite to build strategic relationships across the account, articulating a clear vision and generating enthusiasm, while impacting all business groups. The GAM is co-responsible for selling at the most strategic level within the account and implementing a broad strategy for earning customer acceptance and service implementation. The GAM works with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives, Solutions Architects,Partners, Support, Service teams, and Professional Services) to support customer interests. This includes dotted line responsibility for downstream sales and technical resources that may be geographically distributed.

About the team

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Basic qualifications

- Experience representing AWS within the customer's environment and driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management, and risk mitigation

- Experience creating and implementing long-term transformational account strategies in a customer-facing role or equivalent

- AWS Professional level certification, or experience translating technical aspects of analysis and metrics into actionable insights for the advertiser and both technical and non-technical stakeholders

- Experience leading and influencing the data strategy of your team or organization

- Experience mentoring, coaching, and influencing colleagues, collaborators, and stakeholders

- Experience with problem solving and disruptive innovation, developing technology programs and working across customer organizations

- Competitive Knowledge: Understanding GCP and Azure

Preferred qualifications

- Bachelor's degree, or MBA in computer science, engineering, analytics, mathematics, statistics, IT or equivalent

- Experience in management of large, complex enterprise accounts or equivalent

- Experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities, or experience in software development

- Knowledge of AWS or technology as a service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)

- Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, or experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions

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