Would you like to be part of a team focused on increasing awareness and adoption of
Amazon Web Services (AWS) for State and Local Government Customers? Do you have
the business acumen, relationships, government sales experience and the technical
background necessary to help further establish Amazon as a leading cloud platform
provider? Amazon Web Services is expanding in the Italian Public Sector market, and
this group within Amazon offers a creative, fast paced, entrepreneurial work
environment where you’ll be at the center of Amazon innovation.
As an Account Manager within Amazon Web Services (AWS) you will have the
opportunity to help drive the adoption and growth of emerging cloud-based
technologies. More importantly, you'll help government customers transform their IT
services and significantly improve the citizen experience. Your responsibilities will
include developing and managing a growing customer base for our enterprise and mid-
market accounts. You will deepen business and technical relationships and launch new
customer services by helping to define, identify and pursue key opportunities. This
includes determining the most effective go-to-market strategies and collaborating with
AWS Solution Architects, Partners, Legal, Marketing, Product, Capture/Contracts and
Executive leadership.
You will establish deep business and technical relationships through your knowledge of
the customer’s goals and environment. You will have day-to-day interactions with
customers and our eco-system of partners (SI’s and ISV’s) that support these
customers.
The ideal candidate will possess both a sales and technical background that enables
them to drive an engagement at the CXO level as well as with software developers and
IT architects. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about
government priorities and technical challenges and to convey compelling technical
solutions to them.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Drive revenue and market share in a defined territory.
- Serve as a key member of the AWS Public Sector team, helping to advance our market and technical strategy.
- Articulate and implement strategic territory and account plans aligned to AWS's strategic direction.
- Understand the technical considerations, certifications, and procurement processes specific to the public sector.
- Identify specific prospects/partners/channels to approach while communicating a relevant value proposition for you customer.
- Work closely with customers to ensure that they understand relevant cloud use cases, are successful using AWS services, and are able to build the technical resources required to fully embrace cloud services.
- Understand the technical requirements of your customers and work closely with their IT development team(s) to guide the direction of our product offerings for developers.
- Collaborate with AWS’s Legal team and others to manage complex contract negotiations.
- Maintain an accurate and robust pipeline and forecast of business opportunities.
- Develop and manage the sales pipeline by engaging with prospects, partners, and key customers.
- Prepare and deliver business reviews to the senior management team regarding quarterly and yearly strategies that align with revenue growth expectations.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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