UKI Startup Central Sales Manager, AWS Central Sales Startup EMEA

Job Description

AWS Global Sales drives adoption of the AWS cloud worldwide, enabling customers of all sizes to innovate and expand in the cloud. Our team empowers every customer to grow by providing tailored service, unmatched technology, and support. We dive deep to understand each customer's unique challenges, then craft innovative solutions that accelerate their success. This customer-first approach is how we built the world's most adopted cloud. Join us and help us grow.

There has never been a better time to be a startup, with improved access to modern technologies such as Machine learning levelling the playing field and turbo charging disruption in every industry imaginable. Organisations such as Deliveroo, Monzo & Babylon are disrupting the status quo by focusing deeply on the customer experience and leveraging the latest technology to deliver quantum leap improvements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the drivers of this progress on behalf of our customers. We are looking for leadership talent who want to help shape this exciting time for Startups in a brand new function built from scratch. If you have a passion for using technology to solve business problems that have a major impact on customers, build the future with us.

In this role, the team you build will be aligned to a set of Startup prospects/customers and will work closely with the Area and segment leadership teams to build a plan to execute on the Area, segment and account priorities.

Key job responsibilities
As a manager for the Startup Central Sales team you will build a high impact and diverse team of Central Sales Representatives who are responsible for teaming with specialist and technical functions to deploy startup specific account management. You will manage career growth and development of the team, coach the team on performance, sales planning, operations, pipeline management and strategy. Your team will help to grow the consumption of current and new AWS services across prospects/customers in the Startup space.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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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.

Work/Life Balance
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Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Experience in Sales Management of technology-related sales or comparable business development
- 10+ years of sales experience including 5+ years of managing a team minimum
- Ability to coach team on sales including pipeline management, deal coaching and best practices
- Strong and demonstrated experience in working with diverse customer stakeholders from senior leadership, founders and technical teams in customers
- Actively take up stretch assignments for the function and segment at an EMEA level.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Technical background in engineering, computer science, or MIS and a management degree like MBA
- Domain experience with the startup eco-system and cloud
- Experience building new teams/products/functions

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