Cost and operational effectiveness to support the adoption of new technologies is key to accelerating the business and technological benefits of the AWS platform. AWS offers customers an alternative consumption model that differs from how businesses have traditionally bought IT by focusing on paying only for what you need. We're looking for a hands-on and motivated self-starter who's passionate about working directly with customers to help organizations adopt new processes, purchasing strategies, and cross-functional collaboration to embrace technologies at scale and to ensure long-term customer success.
As Cloud Economics Financial Management BDM, you will have the opportunity to engage with some of the largest customers in the world to help transform the way they purchase, manage, and optimize IT services. You will engage with customers’ Enterprise IT, Operations, and Finance teams to implement best practices for adoption and cost savings. This will include generating and providing recommendations on how customers can optimize their usage of AWS, services not considered, working to reengineer internal people and processes, and working with partners to ensure ongoing success. You will be experienced at working with large data sets, have a familiarity of IT transformation within large organizations, and working directly within the executive suite. You will have superb communication and customer-relationship skills, strength in analytic insights, and be a passionate advocate for AWS customers.
Key job responsibilities
- 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, BD and Marketing teams, drive proactive of ROI/economic conversations with our customers.
- Serve as a central resource for the Sales team to help our customers create appropriately detailed financial models for their current and future IT landscape.
- Create a repository of Economic cases studies and conversations to share learnings with all parts of AWS.
- Serve as a key source of market insights into how our customers view the economic benefit of using AWS relative to deploying applications on-premise or in traditional data centers.
- Work with internal stakeholders to communicate market realities regarding the economics of running IT applications and infrastructures in the when compared to a traditional data center environment.
- Prepare and present business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks on cost and business value related issues
About the team
Cloud Economics Engagements
The AWS Cloud Economics team helps customers identify and quantify value creation opportunities at each stage of their journey to the cloud. We engage directly and collaboratively with customers, partners and internal AWS teams to deliver cloud value advisory expertise, business value case development, and Cloud Financial Management best practices and methodologies. The Cloud Economics team can help answer the customer question: “What value can I expect to achieve by using AWS?”
Cloud Economics Scale
Cloud Economics Scale provides tooling, analysis, benchmarks, and insights to help customers better understand and quantify the IT and business benefits of using AWS. CES works with internal partner teams and customers to deliver cloud value advisory expertise, develop business cases, and answer the customer question: "What value can I expect to achieve by using AWS?
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon diversity conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.- 3+ years of business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements- Experience in online advertising or high-tech products/services
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