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Business Development Manager – AWS, Cloud Economics, Strategic Customer Engagements

As a Cloud Economics Business Development Manager within AWS, you will help AWS customers and prospective customers shape their information technology strategies and IT financial models, and quantify the benefits of running applications in the cloud. To do this, you will work with AWS partners and other groups within AWS to give AWS customers the best insights into how to run their applications on AWS, in the most cost effective manner. You will identify economic barriers to adoption of AWS with these customers and develop repeatable strategies to overcome these barriers. You will communicate the economic value proposition for AWS to a broad audience of IT leaders. You will engage with AWS partners, including ISVs, to address concerns regarding software license management. You will also be expected to be the focal point within AWS for all TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), ROI (Return on Investment) and cost efficiency business development activities.

Your responsibilities will include supporting customers as they assess the business value/economic potential of migrating and operating on AWS and working directly AWS Sales, and BD teams. You will serve as an expert resource on the financial modeling of IT infrastructure. In appropriate cases you will bring in other AWS resources as necessary to help our customers properly evaluate their IT options from an economic perspective.

You will possess a business and IT background that enables you to drive an engagement and interact with key decision makers for our AWS customers, and the technical depth and business experience to easily communicate the economic benefits of cloud computing. You will also be deeply familiar with complex legacy IT environments, with data center economics including data center migration and refresh cycles, with common enterprise virtualization environments, and be capable of creating detailed cost models for these environments. You will have demonstrated abilities to influence decision makers in a consultative selling approach to progress decision making through their personal involvement with developing and presenting a compelling business case

Key job responsibilities

• Own and drive cloud economics scale program working with internal teams and sales stakeholders
• Serve as a key member of the Business Development team in helping to drive AWS Marketing and Sales engagements with our customers regarding the economics of their IT infrastructure
• Work with AWS Sales, and BD teams to drive proactive of ROI/economic conversations with our customers.
• Utilize a standard ROI framework and analytic model to be utilized during customer engagements.
• Serve as a resource for the Sales team to help our customers create appropriately detailed financial models for their current and future IT landscape.
• Prepare and present business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks on TCO related issues

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
– 3+ years of customer facing, executive level communication for business case development with proven outcomes
– 3+ years running projects or programs in a complex technology focused environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree in Technical or Financial fields
– Familiarity with IT infrastructure and cloud computing

Job ID: 2694732

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  • Company: Amazon Web Services
  • Published: 13th July 2024
  • Closing Date: 13th November 2024
  • Country: United States
  • Type: Full-time
  • Seniority: Manager
  • Salary: from $83,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $177,800/year
  • FinOps Certifications Required: None