Senior Sales Specialist, Migrations, Strategic Sales Initiatives

Description

Do you have the business savvy, Microsoft and VMWare Platform 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 team for SMB and Startup Migrations and Modernization team as a Specialist Seller!

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, SAP and VMware. 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 Migration Sales team positions AWS as the best place to move customer workloads into the cloud. As part of a single-threaded sales team focusing on SMB and Startups you will be responsible for working with strategic customers and their existing account teams to qualify and pursue sales opportunities for enterprise application 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, or SAP applications to the AWS cloud. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #One Team.

• 7+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience

• 4+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience

• Experience developing detailed go to market plans

• Experience proactively growing customer relationships within an account while expanding their understanding of the customer's business

• Experience in direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives

• 5+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience

• Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing large-scale technology projects for global customers

• 5+ years of technical work experience, or BS degree in engineering, statistics, computer science, operations research, business analytics, information systems or equivalent

• Expertise in Microsoft, VMWare, Storage, and or Database migrations

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and sales incentives. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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USA, GA, Atlanta -  -  USD annually

USA, IL, Chicago -  -  USD annually

USA, NC, Raleigh -  -  USD annually

USA, NY, New York -  -  USD annually

USA, TX, Austin -  -  USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington -  -  USD annually