Global Account Manager, Automotive & Manufacturing, AWS

AWS is seeking a senior sales professional to manage a global customer relationship with one of our large global Industrial & Manufacturing customers. You will define and execute a CXO relationship strategy within the account including engaging with a dedicated account team AWS senior leaders for executive sponsorship coordinating executive business reviews enabling customer value creation and growth.
The Global Account Manager (GAM) will partner with the customer to build strategic relationships articulate a clear vision and deliver business value. The successful GAM will develop and execute a broad strategy for earning customer trust and driving AWS solution and service adoption across the customers IT/Digital Line of Business (LoB) / Engineering and Operations leadership. The GAM will work with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives Solution Architects Customer Solutions Managers Industry Specialists Marketing Partners Support Service Teams and Professional Services) to deliver customer outcomes. This is an Individual Contributor role but necessitates an account leader mindset and may include dotted line responsibility for downstream sales technical and industry specialist resources. The GAM will also effectively leverage existing programs and mechanisms innovate and scale new mechanisms and develop formal case studies and other forms of references highlighting outcomes and solutions running on AWS.

Key job responsibilities
Contributing to and leading within an AWS customer account team.
Identifying and building trusted advisor relationships with key influencers and decision-makers specifically CxOs at the customer across LoB and functional areas (Digital Data Engineering and Operations).
Working closely with internal AWS teams (executives solution architects industry specialists marketing partners enterprise support service teams and professional services) as well as external SI and ISV partners to support the best business solution(s) for customers.
Defining a CXO relationship strategy within the customer coordinating executive business reviews and maintaining customer satisfaction levels.
Displaying strong leadership presence and being able to command a room in a meeting. Should be seen as an authority in communicating via email phone and face to face and comfortable writing executive briefing documents for and communicating with the most senior executives at the company.
Operating with significant autonomy and discretion. A high degree of decision making is required in routine customer engagement business judgment is critical.
Managing a global sales pipeline via Salesforce and facilitating all stages of a sale.
Participating and leading in the negotiation and closing of legal agreements such as Enterprise Agreements (EAs) and contracts such as Private Pricing Addendums (PPAs).
Maintaining knowledge of AWSs broad solution and service offerings with a focus on connecting cloud capabilities to the customers technology and operational priorities.
Defining product and solution requirements by understanding and evangelizing the needs of customers including feedback via PFRs or the service teams.
Working with marketing and communications to develop formal references PR and case studies highlighting impactful customer activity and workloads running on AWS.

A day in the life
Your day begins with reviewing customer engagement strategies and aligning with your team on priority initiatives. Youll spend time developing and implementing strategies for multi-divisional global companies leading a cross-functional team of AWS resources in serving customer needs. Youll engage with senior executives to understand their business challenges facilitate solution discussions with technical teams and coordinate internal resources to ensure seamless delivery. Throughout the day youll be strategizing on approaches to accelerate cloud adoption and measuring progress against key business outcomes.

Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
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About the team
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Our team takes pride in leading customers through accelerated and innovative cloud journeys creating long-term business relationships built on value and trust. We work alongside motivated professionals who bring diverse perspectives and ideas to help equip customers with the most innovative and comprehensive solutions. When you join AWS you become part of a culture that values curiosity continuous learning and a passion for customer success.

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 industry-specific 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.

The AWS Automotive & Manufacturing team is part of AWS Industries and is dedicated to accelerating customers digital transformation journeys. We speak the language of our customers focusing on business outcomes industry use cases and cloud innovation that transforms both individual enterprises and the broader industry.

- Speak write and read fluently in Japanese
- 7 years of technology related sales business development or equivalent experience
- Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders C-level executives and cross-functional teams
- Knowledge of advanced English at CEFR level B2/C1

- Experience working with presenting to and negotiating with C-level executives IT lines of business procurement finance legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
- Familiarity with AWS services and the ability to map cloud capabilities to complex industrial and operational technology use cases is a significant advantage

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