Account Manager - Canada Alberta and Prairies, Public Sector, Provincial and Local Government Team

Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the Canadian public sector market?

Do you have the business savvy, public sector experience, and technical background necessary to help establish Amazon as a key technology platform provider?

Are you passionate about the public sector (Provincial Governments) and improving outcomes for your fellow Citizens?

AWS Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) is seeking an Enterprise Account Manager to help build the Provincial Government in the Province of Alberta.

The WWPS Canada Account Manager will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of AWS within these market segments.

Your responsibilities will include helping to define key market drivers and partnerships to target across Canada, establishing those relationships, and managing the day-to-day interactions in order to build long-term sales, business and marketing opportunities.

Key job responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Help define and update the mission, goals, and success metrics for the Alberta Government business and ensure it's in line with the overall business strategy.
• Work with the senior management to create a prioritized, tactical action plan to exceed revenue and strategic goals.
• Independently execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. operations, service teams, legal, support, etc.)
• Prepare and give business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks to closing new customers.
• Research and identify new opportunities for the Provincial Government and Crowns, including specific prospects / partners to approach with a technical value proposition for using AWS.
• Work closely with the customer base to ensure they are successful using our Cloud utility and other services and have the technical resources required.
• Understand the technical requirements of our customers and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of our product offerings for developers.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Work / Life Balance

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Hybrid Work

We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face.

Our team affords engineers options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Amazon offices.

Our hybrid models allow you the freedom to work from home whenever in-office collaboration isn’t necessary.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Edmonton, AB, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of direct sales or business development in software, cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
• 5+ years of business development, partner development, sales or alliances management experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of building profitable partner ecosystems experience
• Experience developing detailed go to market plans in public sector
30+ days ago