Head of Justice and Public Safety & Federal Government, ANZ Public Sector Industry Business Development Team

AWS is seeking an experienced Industry Leader to inspire drive innovation and spearhead the transformation of Justice & Public Safety (JPS) and Federal Government customers across Australia and New Zealand. This pivotal role combines strategic leadership relationship building and technical expertise to expand AWSs footprint across federal agencies and the JPS sectorencompassing policing courts corrections emergency services national security and border protection.

Core Pillars
Industry leaders at AWS operate through three core pillars:
- Inspire: Shape policy settings and drive long-term transformation by engaging with government agencies ministers senior policymakers regulators partners and industry associations
- Translate: Convert complex customer challenges into repeatable scalable go-to-market (GTM) strategies and technology solutions delivered through AWS services and partner ecosystem
- Enable: Infuse industry expertise across the AWS Partner Network and internal teams through value maps joint GTM plans and enablement programs

Key job responsibilities
Thought Leadership: Serve as a super-influencer and evangelist for AWS within Federal and JPS sectors through keynote speeches panel discussions publications and industry events
GTM Strategy Ownership: Lead creation inspection and evolution of industry GTM strategy across ANZ with customer-obsessed continuous improvement
Executive Engagement: Own C-level relationships with federal agencies and JPS authorities to establish new business and enable long-term opportunities
Force Multiplier: Provide differentiated support to account and partner teams through executive briefings presentations account planning and proposal preparation. Lead the development of a robust community of partners that can support federal government and JPS customers
Customer Advocacy: Act as feedback conduit between customers and AWS product/service teams to shape future strategies
Market Development: Drive cloud adoption in a sector with 90% on-premises IT estate and only 40% open to cloud adoption addressing shared challenges including legacy DC exit mainframe risks fragmented data silos and inefficient business processes
Team Development: Hire and develop top talent while building culturally aligned partner relationships



A day in the life
Your mornings might start inspiring the sectordelivering keynotes at government forums showcasing cloud-based transformation success stories or hosting roundtables with federal agency leaders demonstrating whats possible in modernizing justice and public safety systems. By midday youre translating those ideas into action working with partners to convert industry challenges into concrete go-to-market strategies and repeatable solutions. Afternoons could be spent on enabling your village - running workshops to build sector empathy across your teams briefing architects on compliance nuances and helping partners speak the language of mission outcomes. Beyond the regular rhythm youre the bridge between worldsmeeting with Ministers in Canberra and Wellington one day feeding agency insights back to product teams the next constantly connecting vision with execution across the entire village.

About the team
The ANZ Public Sector Industry Business Development team brings deep sector expertise and credibility to government transformation. Our industry leaders arent just technology expertstheyre former practitioners whove walked in our customers shoes whether as education leaders healthcare executives judicial officials researchers or regulators. This firsthand experience lets them engage authentically with Ministers Secretaries and agency executives about mission outcomes not just IT solutions. As single-threaded leaders for their industries the team orchestrates complex go-to-market strategies across sales partners and marketingbalancing long-term industry transformation with immediate customer needs. They operate through three core pillars: inspiring customers by showcasing whats possible with contemporary cloud technologies translating complex industry imperatives into partner-led solutions and repeatable strategies and enabling both internal teams and the broader ecosystem with sector-specific empathy and awareness. Its about building the bridges between vision and execution that help government agencies better serve their citizens.

Diverse Experiences
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- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 10 years of leading digital transformation programs across federal government and/or JPS agency business development or equivalent experience
- Experience in internal or external selling new policy proposal or business case development for multi-million-dollars digital transformation proposals
- Deep understanding of Australia and New Zealand federal government and JPS agencies business and technology imperatives and procurement processes
- Knowledge of government security and compliance frameworks (IRAP Protected certification Whole of Government procurement processes and panels)
- Strong credibility with government business line executives ministers and industry groups
- Ability to deliver high quality written and visual content for the target audience
- Proven track record leading teams to achieve significant business development targets
- Experience selling complex technology solutions to government customers is desirable
- Strong understanding of cloud computing in government environments
- Ability to obtain required security clearances

- Experience selling cloud solutions at a software company or equivalent
- Experience with AWS and technology as a service (IaaS SaaS PaaS)
- Experience of working in a Justice & Public Safety and/or Federal Government organisation in a senior executive role or supporting similar authorities for over 10 years

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

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