23 Oct
Amazon Web Services Canada
Ottawa
Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of Amazon Web Services in the Canada public sector market? Do you have the business savvy, public sector experience, and technical background necessary to help establish as a key technology platform provider? Are you passionate about serving the public sector in Canada?
The Canada Public Sector (CANPS) team is looking for an accomplished Senior Business Development Manager (BDM) to drive growth strategies for Defence. As Defence BDM, you will have the exciting opportunity to help drive the growth and shape the future of this customer segment.
You will work closely with sales leadership and the extended NatSec team to build go-to-market strategies focusing on delivering long-term revenue, adoption, and market penetration. You will work with several stakeholder teams supporting Canada Sales, including the partners, solutions, policy, security, compliance, marketing, and professional services to position AWS as the cloud service provider of choice for mission-based workloads, while using internal mechanisms to ensure success.
Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will possess a business development/sales background with extensive Defence experience. Key job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Engages with the sales team, and multiple stakeholders to define and execute sales plans, strategic programs and initiatives to deliver revenue growth.
• Contributes to the strategic development of work products that maximize and accelerate revenue.
• Works with business leaders from product teams to explore market data to identify trends/opportunities,
utilizes extensive relationships within industry to gather market intelligence, and executes on business development opportunities. Syncs often with business development organizations across Amazon to share information and drive consistency with partners and customers.
• Manages internal communications and performance reporting.
• Develops and executes on segment specific sales & marketing efforts with strategic partners (ISV, SI & Defence contractors).
Preferred Qualifications:
• Proven ability to prospect, recruit, and manage executive level relationships
• Excellent presentation, sales, and negotiation skills; ability to close and/or support high value and high-profile opportunities
• Strong ownership and bias for action; ability to internalize goals and work independently to create real plans to achieve them
• Strong analytical orientation; comfort using analytical tools and making data-based decisions
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to analyze issues and create appropriate tactical plans
• Meticulous attention to detail: ability to juggle many tasks in parallel
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, innovative, and rapidly evolving industry and business organization
• Demonstrated ability to champion and drive cross-functionally improvement initiatives
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences at C-suite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Demonstrated effectiveness working across multiple business units to achieve results
• MBA preferred
About the team
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▶️ Sr. BD Manager, Canada National Security and Defence
🖊️ Amazon Web Services Canada
📍 Ottawa