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As the Business Development Manager, focusing on the State governments & Educational Institutes you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mindshare and broad use of Amazon’s utility computing web services (Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 etc). Your responsibilities will include helping to define, building the necessary business and technical relationships with customers and partners to impact new AWS business in those markets, and drive the day-to-day interactions with prospects in order to build long-term business relationships. You’ll also work closely with the product/service teams to help them evolve the products/services and address issues, concerns, and requests from the field. The ideal candidate will possess both a business background that enables them to drive an engagement and interact at the high level Secretaries and government officials, as well as a technical background that enables them to easily interact with software developers and architects. You should have a consistent track record of consistent business performance. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges, with the ability to build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organizationally to build consensus. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and scrappiness is a must.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for generating and qualifying leads at scale and close business.

• Serve as a key member of the Business Development team in helping to drive state government / Educational Institutes market and technical strategy.

• Participate in procurement process through tenders and RFPs

• Position and empanel AWS services on rate contracts of State nodal bodies

• Help define the AWS state government market segments including Universities, Research Institutes, Nodal agencies and industry verticals we target.

• Set a strategic business development plan for target markets and ensure it's in line with the AWS strategic direction.

• Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. business development teams, Proposal team, service teams, legal, support, etc.).

• Identify specific prospects/partners to approach while communicating the specific value proposition for their business and use case.

• Fill the business development pipeline by engaging with prospects, partners, and key AWS customers.

• Work closely with the AWS customer base to ensure they are successful using the value of AWS services, making sure they have the technical resources required.

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A day in the life

• Understand the technical requirements of AWS customers and work closely with the internal development teams to guide the direction of the product offerings for developers.

• Understand and leverage the use of tools and other internal Amazon systems.

• Provide business reviews to the management team regarding progress, maintain a healthy pipeline with accuracy

• Develop long-term strategic partnerships in support of key markets.

• Grow the business to develop an independent territory.

• Handle a high volume of engagements and the fast pace of the cloud computing market

• Experienced with account management and solution oriented business development.

About the team

Would you like to influence cloud computing adoption in Public sector? Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services by engaging with public sector organizations and Educational Institutes who are reinventing their IT strategy by adopting cloud computing? Do you have the business savvy, public sector industry experience and the technical background necessary to help further establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform provider?

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Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of technology platform sales with an understanding of government IT, data centers, cloud services and cloud adoption experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• C-level of engagement and communication skills.

• • Must have an understanding of government procurement and contract procedures.

• • Must have the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations. • The right person will possess a good blend of technical, analytical and several years of business development in Government & Educational segment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software

• Experience in engineering, computer science, or MIS

• Experience driving new business in greenfield accounts at the C-suite level or equivalent

• MBA, Computer Science, and/or Engineering/Math background. • Experience with cloud rate contracts with state nodal agencies • Working knowledge of software development practices and data center / infrastructure / networking technologies and / or a Cloud Service Provider.