Territory Business Development Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com Company, has been the world’s leading cloud provider for more than 17 years with the most mature, comprehensive, and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has over 200 fully featured cloud services, managed from 81 availability zones within 25 geographic regions across the globe. Millions of customers in over 190 countries - from the fastest growing start-ups to the largest enterprises, through to leading government agencies - all place their trust in AWS to power their infrastructure, and deliver innovation.

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and consistent support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

As a Territory Business Development Manager working with Amazon Web Services, you will have the exciting opportunity to help promote the growth and shape the future of an emerging technology. Your responsibilities will include increasing adoption, and market penetration in both medium and large enterprise accounts.

The ideal candidate will possess both a business development and technical background that enables him or her to engage at the CXO level as well as with software developers and IT infrastructure and software designers and architects. You must also be a self-starter who is prepared to develop and execute against a territory coverage plan business objectives.

Key job responsibilities

• Identify key aspects of potential new opportunities, progress opportunities to launch, influence on customer cloud adoption
• Develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
• Develop and execute against a comprehensive account/territory plan including outbound calling against established target lists
• Create and articulate compelling value propositions around AWS services, develop AWS use case studies
• Engage with AWS partners, Solutions Architects to develop business development strategies, extend reach, develop relationships and drive joint success Possess the technical ability to explain (not implement) Cloud Computing, infrastructure solutions (Server, Storage, Networking, DC Services), Internet architectures (firewalls, load balancers, etc) and Management Tools
• Forecast the territory performance per month against quota, cost optimize customers, and maintain a robust sales pipeline and related territory target lists in Salesforce.com
• Exceed set business objectives and ensure customer satisfaction

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

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• Bachelor's degree, or MBA in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
• 6+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience
• Fluent in both English and Chinese
• Experience completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround, or experience in a fast-paced, high-tech company
• Knowledge of cloud computing, IT infrastructure, and different programming languages
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Business Development experience with virtualization/infrastructure solutions a bonus

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