Account Manager - Public Sector Financial Services

DESCRIPTION

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Canada Public Sector Financial Services market? Do you have the business savvy, public sector experience, and technical background necessary to help establish Amazon as a key technology platform provider?

AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) is seeking a Paired Account Manager to help build the Public Sector Financial Services business in Canada with a focus on pension funds, regulators and credit unions. The Account Manager will have the opportunity to help deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS within this market segment.

Your responsibilities will include helping to define key market drivers and partnerships to target , establishing those relationships, and managing the day-to-day interactions in order to build long-term sales, business and marketing opportunities.

Key job responsibilities

Working with the Principal Account Executive and extended team to help define and execute against mission, goals, and success metrics for the territory and ensure it's in line with the overall business strategy. In this role, you will :

• Exceed revenue and customer success metrics.
• Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. Operations, Service Teams, ProServe, Support, etc.) and the partner ecosystem
• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new customers.
• Research and identify new leads and opportunities including specific prospects / partners to approach with a value proposition for using AWS to grow pipeline.
• Work closely with the customer base to ensure they are successful using our web services and have the right enablement plans in place.
• Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal solutions architects and subject matter experts to guide the direction of POCs and solutions.
• Develop long-term relationships in support of our key Public Sector FSI market segments.
• Ability to travel up to 25%

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