AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage our global customer relationship with one of the largest Retail/CPG companies in the world. The Principal Account Manager will be responsible for providing global business leadership and management of this global account. You will build and maintain key relationships develop and manage opportunities monitor deployment projects and engage 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. You will further serve as a strategic Voice of the Customer for the Retail and CPG Business Unit on behalf of the company you directly manage.
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industryspecific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers whether that is how we build products and solutions how we sell how we deliver or how we partner.
Key job responsibilities
The Principal Account Manager is responsible for teaming with the customers leadership and Lines of Business Organizations across IT Products Networks and Video to build strategic relationships across the account articulating a clear vision and generating enthusiasm while impacting all business groups. Additional responsibilities include selling at the most strategic level within the account and implementing a broad strategy for earning customer acceptance and service implementation. The Principal Account Manager will work with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives Solution Architects Business Development Marketing 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.
Development of formal case studies and other forms of references highlighting activity and workloads running on AWS is core to the role.
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Experience in technology related sales business development or equivalent
Experience working with and presenting to Clevel executives IT and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
Extensive experience managing relationships with large complex Retail/CPG customers.
Experience selling cloud solutions at a software company or equivalent
Experience with AWS and technology as a service (IaaS SaaS PaaS)
Bachelors degree or equivalent
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