SCE Deal Specialist – Strategic Negotiations, GDSP, APJC

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Deal Negotiator for the Strategic Customer Engagements (SCE) team. This is a unique opportunity to engage with AWS customers on strategic opportunities, increase the growth of AWS in the APJ region, and to establish AWS as customers' key cloud technology provider.

As a Senior Deal Negotiator, you will analyze and develop deal terms, review and simplify complex scenarios, and craft elegant deal solutions. You will work with customers and internal stakeholders to define and communicate streamlined deal workflows, build consensus, and close commercial transactions. In this customer facing role, you will focus on AWS Private Pricing Agreements (PPAs) to formulate and close PPAs, coordinate critical phases of simultaneous and multiple deal cycles, and ensure consensus with all relevant stakeholders.

You will own alignment with C-level executives, IT teams, and multiple lines of business to achieve business outcomes, increase the adoption of AWS services, and to enable private pricing, go-to-market, pan-Amazon, and other strategic relationships.

Key job responsibilities
• Engage directly with the customer on commercial and contractual terms.
• Close commercial transactions: brief senior management and coordinate internal and customer stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment and effective AWS communication. Inspire and influence internal stakeholders, experts, and other indirect resources to remove obstacles, resolve conflict for productive engagements.
• Execute deal and competitive structures: maximize the value of opportunities consistent with AWS objectives and requirements.
• Advise and provide thought leadership on the execution of competitive commercial, channel, and partner deal opportunities.
• Provide expertise on deal structuring and advise key stakeholders on the impact of deal terms: provide creative solutions to the customer, the AWS sales field, and leadership.

About the team
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Basic Qualifications

- Experience working with, presenting to, and negotiating with C-level executives, IT, lines of business, procurement, finance, legal and internal stakeholders for sizeable commercial/enterprise deals

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in large complex deal negotiations with a successful track record
- Knowledge of AWS or cloud technologies
- Legal qualification preferred
- 15 + years demonstrated success working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals (relative to industry and market size) from opportunity through closure

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