Strategic Initiatives Lead, Partner and Strategy; AWS

Job :  | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

The Strategy Lead (SL) is a key member of the Partner Growth & Strategy (PGS) organization, responsible for delivering new and increased capabilities and better end-to-end partner experiences across the worldwide consulting partner community.

The vision of PGS is to foster a consulting partner community that is integral to enabling AWS growth to $500B and beyond, by establishing AWS as the preferred AI cloud service provider for CPs. This vision is underpinned by a dual mandate: to deeply engage with a representative set of partners while simultaneously leveraging insights, defining best practices, and propagating strategies that empower the worldwide consulting partners to build sustainable business practices.

• - Continuously gather ASP, Partner, Field, and Customer insights to refine areas of focus for the PGS team’s strategy, ensuring PGS efforts remain closely aligned to addressing partner opportunities and challenges.
• - Qualify the impact of candidate initiatives against partner cohorts and the worldwide consulting partner community overall; quantifying the potential business value of candidate initiatives.
• - Prioritize and align leadership to high-impact candidates to increase ASP and partner performance.
• - Design mechanisms, best practices, processes, and governance models to address gaps and opportunities in focus (strategic initiatives); leading the implementation and delivery of these strategic initiatives, via hands‑on engagement with stakeholders and via orchestrating cross‑functional teams.
• - Uncover partner needs and Think Big ideas through participation in key partner meetings, primary research, and data analysis; leveraging these insights to ensure customer and partner needs are central to PGS strategy and initiatives.
• - Represent the PGS across SMGS teams, where PGS has decision authority or a vested interest in the capabilities and capacity of the worldwide consulting partner community.
• - Apply partner and customer engagement expertise to aligning, planning, and constructing solutions for transformation programs and business acceleration initiatives.
• - Direct participation in annual strategic plan processes.

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