Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, offering virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, analytics, and other web computing services to customers all over the world. Within the AWS WW Commercial Sales (WWCS) organization, the Sales Strategy and Operations team is responsible for supporting Leadership, Sales, and Operational teams in achieving organizational objectives and driving continuous improvements in field productivity. We own and deliver “run the business” (RTB) operational cadences, build new mechanisms to support organizational growth and scale, and drive organizational initiatives.
This position will be responsible for leading and evolving Sales Planning for Asia-Pacific & Japan. As a member of the Sales Planning Mechanisms team, this person will lead of existing planning processes while driving net-new initiatives focused on improving scale and automation. This person will work closely with the sales strategy team to focus on in-year, organization-wide implementation of key initiatives.
The ideal candidate earns trust through performance and relationship building, thinks strategically and analytically about business challenges, has experience in program management and has a deep analytic background to assist the AWS APJ Commercial Sales organization in meeting its business objectives. The candidate will be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving, a passion for identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, and has the foresight to anticipate business needs, make trade-offs, and balance business dynamics despite constraints.
The right candidate has a strong record of delivering results timely and effectively. You should have experience managing complex multi-country programs for sales engagement in large, multi-national, preferably tech organizations. The ideal candidate has broad technical skills, strong financial acumen, sales strategy experience, and a deep analytical background. Strong judgement, ability to manage through ambiguity and complexity as well as a demonstrated ability to influence without explicit authority are key to success.
Key job responsibilities
• Recruit, Hire, and Train a high-performing team to deliver on organizational goals and initiatives
• Build a strategic plan for how we manage all sales planning mechanisms.
• Develop innovative approaches to delivering operational solutions that scale.
• Represent the Commercial Sales organization in the development of new tools and automation in support of sales planning.
• Write business papers and deliver recommendations to executive leadership for consideration.
• Identify issues and challenges related to sales strategy projects, and drive timely resolution.
