Amazon Web Services EMEA Abu D Hiring for Partner Sales Manager GSI – EEM Job at Dubai Full Time

Job summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and many other services – gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them. AWS is the leading platform for designing and developing applications for the cloud and is growing at a staggering pace in terms of revenue, customers, people, and complexity.

Reporting to the EMEA GSI Partner Sales Lead, this role is responsible for shaping our Global Systems Integrator (GSI) partnerships in EEM aligning co-selling with the AWS field sales teams. They will be expected to play a critical role in the develop of the AWS IT Transformation within EEM. This role will also be a transformative unifier of teams across AWS and partners.

This individual will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, sales teams, and partner sales and technical teams. They are able to deal with ambiguity, apply high judgment, design innovative, game-changing approaches, and lead strategic, large, and complex initiatives.

From this role, they will work across multiple organizations, globally, company-wide, or with industry leaders.

The execution of the role is critical, you will actively work to reduce bureaucracy and remove blockers that stifle innovation. You will decide what areas and/or technologies need investment to grow (and when they don’t). You will negotiate new boundaries around the areas you own to achieve the best outcomes. You will be a thought leader and a culture ambassador among the AWS and Partner teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage a partner sales target delivered through a defined set of GSIs in EEM.
• Work cross functionally and collaborates with sales, marketing, services, and training/enablement leadership teams to build a fully integrated GSI partner ecosystem
• Engage a team of enterprise partner success managers as well as partner solution architects that are responsible for the overall success of the AWS partners selling with the AWS field teams.
• Represent AWS as the Leader of GSIs in EEM participate in industry and partner events to deliver thought leadership on how AWS enables customer value
• As the voice of the AWS field, engage with AWS GSI partner management team to support the build of GSI partner capability within EEM.
• Manage and develop multiple senior sales and technical relationships across our GSI partners within EEM and establish the partner success team as the single point of contact for selling with AWS.
• Oversee the development of the GSI’s by establishing KPI’s and best practices.
• Work closely with stakeholders to develop, establish, and direct GSI and Industry strategies, programs, and best practices.
• Manage overall GSI enablement process, set appropriate metrics for partner funnel management.
• Collaborate with senior sales leadership to identify opportunities for sales process improvement.
• Provide input on partner training content and process based on communications with partners, industry best practices, or recommended process improvements.