Principal, Corporate Business Development, Corporate Business Development

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Corporate Business Development is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Development professional to join the Corporate BD team to focus on strategic initiatives, deal work, and partnerships in London.

This role will work closely with Amazon senior management to develop unique partnership opportunities, finding the right intersection between our goals and partner capabilities. You will be part of a team that is responsible for generating, managing, and executing some of Amazon’s most complex and high impact partnerships. This includes supporting and managing relationships and negotiations for partnership deals which are unconventional in nature and which have long-term implications for Amazon.

This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your ability to forge strong relationships at senior levels, support first-of-their-kind initiatives and build cross functional relationships inside one of the world’s leading technology companies.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop transformative commercial strategies that drive significant business impact.
- Lead in identifying, evaluating, negotiating and managing strategic partnerships that enable valuable customer experiences and support the strategic objectives of Amazon.
- Build strong internal relationships with leaders and counterparts across Amazon’s diverse set of businesses.
- Work with cross-functional teams including Product, Operations, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Tax, Accounting, and senior management to execute on the relationships.
- Build internal support for new initiatives with keen focus on market opportunity, business potential, and overall strategic fit.
- Evaluate the economic and strategic costs and benefits of partnerships and work with appropriate leaders and across all functional areas of Amazon to execute on the relationships.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Extensive business development, partnership management, or sourcing new business experience at a Senior level
- Proven track record developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
- Consumer industry expertise
- Demonstrated success in working within a distributed, cross-functional organization
- Demonstrated track record of identifying and executing successful partnerships and deals, particularly in Internet, ecommerce, digital media or high tech industries
- Experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross functional groups to orchestrate and successfully complete deals
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and work at strategic and tactical levels simultaneously
- Strong business written and spoken communication abilities