AWS is seeking a world-class sales professional to manage the relationship with a major telecom customer in Germany.
The Global 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 ongoing projects and engage virtual resources. You will define executive relationships within the account, including engaging with AWS senior leadership team for executive sponsorships, coordinating executive business reviews and maintain customer satisfaction.
Key job responsibilities
The Global Account Manager is responsible for teaming with the customer’s IT, Network and line-of-business organizations to build strategic relationships across the accounts, articulating a clear vision and generating enthusiasm, while impacting all business groups. The Global Account Manager is 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 will work with all appropriate AWS resources (Executives, Solution Architects, Business Development, Marketing, Partners, Support, Service teams and Professional Services) to support customer interests.
About the team
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 Telecoms team is committed to helping telecom customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our telecom customers, which means that we focus 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.
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- 10+ years working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
- 10+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Experience selling cloud solutions at a software company or equivalent
- Experience with AWS and technology as a service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)
- Fluent spoken and written German
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