Strategic Customer Engagements, Amazon
Public Sector EMEA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- 12 + years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure
- 12+ years of experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, and legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals
- 5 + years proven legal expertise on large and complex IT commercial deal terms
- Bachelor degree in Business, Economics, Technology or Finance (or equivalent work experience)
Desirable
- J.D. Preferred
- Commercial contract experience within IT/software services
- Knowledge of the Cloud market and AWS
What the job involves
- As a Senior Deal Negotiator, you will analyze and develop deal terms, review and simplify complex scenarios, and craft elegant deal solutions. You will work with customers and internal stakeholders to define and communicate streamlined deal workflows, build consensus, and close commercial transactions
- In this customer facing role, you will focus on AWS Private Pricing Agreements (PPAs) to formulate and close PPA’s, navigate the AWS approval process, coordinate critical phases of simultaneous and multiple deal cycles, and ensure consensus with all relevant stakeholders
- You will own alignment with C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, pan-Amazon, and other strategic relationships
- Execute deal and competitive structures: maximize the value of opportunities consistent with AWS objectives and requirements
- Advise and provide thought leadership on the execution of competitive commercial, channel, and partner deal opportunities
- Provide expertise on deal structuring and advise key stakeholders on the impact of deal terms: provide creative solutions to the customer, the AWS sales field, and leadership
- Engage directly with the customer on commercial and contractual terms
- Close commercial transactions: brief senior management and coordinate internal and customer stakeholders
- Facilitate alignment and effective AWS communication. Inspire and influence internal stakeholders, experts, and other indirect resources to remove obstacles, resolve conflict for productive engagements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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