Business Manager, UK Regional Public Sector
Job Summary
Thats essentially what youll do as a Sales Strategy Developer in the UK Regional Public Sector (RPS) team at AWS. Youll be embedded within the team and will be responsible for ensuring it operates with the cadence governance and quality required to meet the expectations of UK Germany and International Organisations Public Sector (UKGI PS). Youll work in conjunction with the UKGI PS Business Manager delivering against the frameworks operating rhythm and standards they set while making sure your teams deliverables are on time on quality and aligned with WW Public Sector (WWPS) requirements.
Heres what makes this role genuinely different:
You will collaborate with Field Sales Operations to be the operational engine of RPS. Youll deliver against the business rhythm set for UKGI PS making sure RPS meets the deadlines and requirements of the wider organisation. When the UKGI PS Business Manager sets the standard youll make sure RPS hits it.
You will turn data into decisions for RPS. Youll surface the insights that matter frame the trade-offs clearly and make sure every business review drives action not just reporting. Youll complement what Field Sales Ops provides by contextualising data for your leadership.
You will bring rigour without bureaucracy. Governance doesnt have to mean slowness. Youll deliver against the operating mechanisms set for UKGI PS keeping the RPS leadership accountable and aligned while staying lean fast and focused on what actually moves the needle.
You will solve real meaty problems. How do you keep RPS aligned with organisation-wide priorities when demands compete How do you ensure RPSs commitments dont drift How do you implement a cadence thats tight enough to drive execution but flexible enough to adapt These are the puzzles youll own.
You will build things that didnt exist before. Whether its an AI-powered workflow that automates action tracking a smarter way to prepare RPS leaders for their most important decisions or a tailored implementation of an org-wide framework you wont just manage processes youll invent better ones.
Were looking for someone who gets genuinely excited about operational excellence thinks in systems asks why do we do it this way on a daily basis and has the drive to go and fix the answer. If youre the kind of person who sees a messy process and cant rest until its clean youll fit right in.
Key job responsibilities
Deliver against the UKGI PS operating rhythm. Youll ensure RPS meets the cadence set for UKGI PS weekly monthly and quarterly reviews that drive accountability and decision-making. Youll ensure every meeting has a clear purpose the right preparation and outcomes that are tracked to completion. You wont design the operating rhythm from scratch youll deliver against the rhythm set by the organisation making sure RPS meets deadlines and requirements.
Align with UKGI PS Front Office standards. Youll ensure RPS deliverables OP submissions QBR inputs governance outputs including budgets meet the standards formats and deadlines set. Youll be the RPS point of contact for centralised requests and will ensure quality and timeliness of all inputs.
Implement and iterate on org-wide frameworks. Youll adopt measurement frameworks SOPs and best practices established at the UKGI PS level tailoring them for RPSs context while maintaining consistency. Youll track whether strategic initiatives are delivering against defined success criteria using frameworks designed collaboratively with the UKGI PS Business Manager. Youll feed back learnings to continuously improve the approach.
Drive governance and accountability within your team. Youll own the tracking of strategic commitments actions and escalations within RPS. When leaders make a decision youll ensure it translates into clear owners deadlines and follow-through. Nothing drifts on your watch.
Feed into the Operating Plan process. Youll support the operating plan process by providing your teams inputs headcount and investment planning data strategic priorities and business cases for new growth initiatives. You wont own the OP process end-to-end but youll ensure your teams contributions are accurate timely and aligned with UKGI PS requirements.
Manage RPS budgets. Youll own the day-to-day management of RPSs budgets tracking spend ensuring alignment with priorities and flagging risks or underspend to Finance and the UKGI PS Business Manager.
Bring AI and automation into how we operate. Collaborating across the organisation youll find every manual inefficient process in the business rhythm and figure out how AI agents and automation can do it better from action tracking to data synthesis to review preparation. Youll prototype solutions and champion adoption within RPS.
Support RPS engagement and events. Youll coordinate logistics and content for team engagement events leadership offsites customer showcases and other forums that feed into the UKGI PS-wide operating rhythm.
Be the connective tissue for RPS. Youll keep RPS aligned with the wider UKGI PS organisation managing information flow across RPS leadership field sales operations finance and specialist functions. When something falls between the cracks youll catch it. When leaders need context they dont have youll provide it. Youll drive cross-functional alignment within RPS including with commercial partner and specialist functions to ensure strategic initiatives are coordinated and mutually reinforcing.
A day in the life
Your morning might start by reviewing the output of an AI agent you deployed last week one that now automatically tracks and chases actions from RPSs leadership meetings that used to take hours of manual follow-up. Youll check what it caught overnight tweak the workflow and think about where to apply the same approach next.
By mid-morning youre preparing RPSs inputs for a quarterly business review pulling together performance data surfacing the three things RPS leadership needs to debate and ensuring everything meets UKGI PS standards and deadlines. Youre not just assembling documents; youre shaping the conversation.
After lunch you might be in a governance review walking through RPSs strategic commitments and flagging where things are off-track. Then youre switching gears to pull together your teams inputs for the operating plan making sure the numbers are accurate and the narrative is tight before Finance and Field Sales Ops need them.
No two days look the same. Some days youll be deep in data building the insight that drives a critical decision. Others youll be implementing a measurement framework or scoping an automation that could save the team hours every week. You might be coordinating an all-team event or preparing for a customer showcase. Occasionally youll find yourself pulled into something completely unexpected a fast-turnaround brief for senior leadership or an opportunity to pilot a brand-new AI tool before anyone else.
The thread that ties it all together Youre always asking: does RPS have what it needs to deliver and is it meeting the standards the wider organisation expects
About the team
Were the UK Regional Public Sector (RPS) team within AWS responsible for helping public sector organisations across England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland adopt cloud and AI to transform how they serve citizens. Our customers span Healthcare Education Central and Local Government and Non-Profit Organisations.
Day to day youll be embedded within the team working closely with its leadership team. Youll interact regularly with account managers partner managers solutions architects finance marketing HR and public policy teams. Youll collaborate with the UKGI PS Front Office which sets the standards and frameworks youll implement and youll act as the operational backbone that keeps RPS aligned and moving in the same direction as the wider UKGI PS organisation.
Our customers are tackling some of the most important challenges in society modernising public services improving healthcare delivery and widening access to education. What you build the sharper governance the cleaner cadence the better-informed decisions directly enables your team to support those customers faster and more effectively.
Were transparent about what we are: a team that moves fast embraces change and expects everyone to bring rigour and ideas in equal measure.
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in a related field
- Experience in sales inside sales or business development
- Experience working across functional teams and senior stakeholders
- Experience presenting to senior leadership
- Experience leveraging technology to drive process improvements
- Experience managing complex projects and/or programs within a matrix environment
- Experience working with or evaluating AI systems
- Experience conducting sophisticated and creative analysis of complex data and translate the results into actionable deliverables messages and presentations
- Experience in senior level leadership support or experience handling confidential information and maintaining professionalism in dealing with senior executives
- Experience in the public sector
- Experience with budgeting scheduling and cost reports
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