Job Description

DESCRIPTION

As a manager on the Partner Sales team, you will have the exciting opportunity to support a number of partner sales managers in delivering on our strategy to build mind share of Amazon Web Services and grow adoption of cloud-based solutions with our partner community. In the role, you will manage a team that establishes and maintains C-level, sales, and product relationships with strategic ISV, SI and GSI partners to drive AWS services revenue with AWS account teams and customers. You will coach the team in establishing and growing business and technical relationships, and managing the day-to-day interactions with customers and partners, and your team will be responsible for creating and closing opportunities that drive top line AWS revenue growth and overall market adoption with AWS customers.
The ideal candidate will possess management experience, a business background that enables them to engage at the CXO level, as well as a sales background that enables them to easily interact with enterprise customers and sales executives to support the AWS sales process and partner sales processes. Experience working at a partner is ideal. He/she to coach sales people to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions. The position also requires a strong technical acumen, along with working knowledge of software architecture and the enterprise software landscape.

Key job responsibilities
1. Drive revenue and market share across Canada with multiple sales teams and partners with a broad list of ISVs, SIs and GSIs with defined revenue and win targets
2. Meet or exceed annual revenue targets by helping partners originate and work with AWS and the partners sales teams to close opportunities that drive AWS revenue (SaaS, ISV Accelerate, Marketplace, AWS native services) and partner revenues with AWS prospects and customers.
3. Build deep relationships with partners and their leadership teams to fully understand their business, solutions and technical needs and to intersect that with AWS customer/industry opportunities.
4. Develop and execute against Canada\'s partner strategy and annual plans supporting all sales teams nationally and all partners to drive achievement of revenue and win goals
5. Execute this plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. sales leaders, specialist sales teams, services teams and BD, partner marketing and partner development resources)
6. Develop long-term strategic relationships with key strategic partners
7. Coach your team with the creation & articulation of compelling value propositions around AWS services to customers and partners
8. Manage, monitor and drive performance of the total partner pipeline across Canada
9. Work with partners to extend their reach & drive AWS adoption
10. Support partners as they develop their solutions through formal AWS APN programs in partnership with PDMs (and other resources)
11. Ensure customer and partner satisfaction
12. Provide technical and architectural resources to assist partners in customer engagements and their delivery of solutions to market, including assisting them with channel partners
13. Support your team of partner sales managers in driving business development initiatives in their territories in partnership with Partner Development resources and marketing and GTMS teams to help drive solutions built on AWS and ensure that AWS is their preferred platform
14. Prepare and give business reviews to AWS and partner executives.
15. Manage complex contract negotiations and serve as a liaison to the legal group.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Calgary, AB, CAN | Montreal, QC, CAN | Toronto, ON, CAN | Vancouver, BC, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 12+ years in technical/IT related sales with medium to large software vendors/customers
• 5+ years sales management experience
• Experience working with partners or working at a partner - either SI, GSI or ISV
• Technology background with cloud technology

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
• Demonstrated ability to work across cross functional teams to deliver large, complex IT solutions
• Knowledge and relationships in the Canadian IT market and technology partners in the Canadian market

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