Global Account Manager

Extensive experience working at a technology company as the lead account and relationship manager of a large global organization.
- Extensive experience of managing large complex global customers both within IT and the business, leading large virtual and local account teams, developing relationships at all levels.
- Knowledge and experience of the Energy industry is important.

AWS is seeking a world class sales professional to manage global customer relationships with one of the largest Energy companies in the world.

The Global Account Manager (GAM) 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 deployment projects and engage virtual resources. You will define a CXO relationship strategy within the account, including engaging with AWS senior leadership team for executive sponsorship, coordinating executive business reviews, and maintaining customer satisfaction.

**Responsibilities**:
The Global Account Manager is responsible for teaming with the customer’s IT Organization to build strategic relationships across the account, articulating a clear vision and generating enthusiasm, while impacting all business groups. The GAM 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. This includes dotted line responsibility for downstream sales and technical resources that may be geographically distributed.

Development of formal case studies and other forms of references highlighting activity and workloads running on AWS, is core to the role.

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small

Key job responsibilities
Driving and influencing key customer projects through outcome based selling. Working closely with local and virtal team members. Diving deep into the details, but able to step back and act strategically within a clear vision.

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- Experience as the primary account manager of a global federated enterprise working with multiple business units and influencing governance and policy is a plus.
- BA or BS degree in computer science, engineering, business, marketing, or related field (MBA preferred) or equivalent experience
- Experience in large complex deal negotiations with a successful track record; establishing credibility quickly with senior level executives across the organizations.
- Strong understanding of AWS and/or technology as a service (Iaas,SaaS,PaaS) would be preferred but not required.