Senior Sales Specialist, Amazon

• Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential
• Do you have the business savvy, Microsoft Platform and/or VMware background, and sales skills necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers
• Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses
• Do you want to join one of the fastest-growing organizations within Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Join the Field Specialist Organization for Infrastructure Migrations and Modernization team as a Specialist Seller!
• 7+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
• 5+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience

Desirable

• As a Specialist Seller, you will be an owner of AWS service(s) and drive business revenue by identifying customer needs and matching them to AWS solutions
• Specifically, focused on Enterprise Applications such as Microsoft, VMware, and SAP
• You will be empowered to pursue, create, and develop opportunities for their service by engaging with prospective and existing AWS customers
• As a Specialist Seller, you will identify high-value customer opportunities within specific accounts
• You will engage with the customer, partner(s), and account team to help customers succeed by choosing AWS services and accelerate service adoption
• You will own the full-cycle sales engagement plan with prospective customers, be a trusted customer advisor to help close deals, and ensure customer retention
• You will respond to qualified lead opportunities generated via field engagement activities
• Also, you will maintain an operating knowledge of the AWS service catalog aligned to your domain specialty, new service development or service changes, and relevant cross-functional areas to build strong relationships with AWS customers
• The Amazon Global Sales organization Migration Workloads team positions AWS as the best place to run Microsoft-based and VMware workloads
• As part of a single-threaded sales team focusing on the Microsoft and/or VMware platform running on AWS, you will be responsible for working with strategic customers and their existing account teams to qualify and pursue sales opportunities for infrastructure modernization workloads and datacenter migration projects
• You will engage with our segment sales, solutions architects, partner and professional services organizations to drive highly complex opportunities to closure
• These opportunities will include migrating SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, VMware and/or SAP applications to the AWS cloud
• Your commitments will include quota accountability, driving platform adoption within global accounts, market penetration in new and existing enterprise accounts as well as creating public references Our team helps customers migrate Microsoft, VMware, and SAP services to the AWS cloud while providing a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure
• As a Specialist Seller on the team, you will help drive AWS revenue growth and shape the future of a service category that will have a significant impact on AWS customers’ global computing model
• The Sales Specialist works backwards from customers to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses
• You will be directly interfacing with customer and field sales as specialist sales, and technical solutions architects
• As part of field sales you’ll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses