AWS PRACTICE LEAD
Job Description
- Company is seeking a Regional Practice Leader for our EMEA AWS business.
- This is a senior role involving team management, consultancy, partner management, and technical project delivery assurance.
- The ideal candidate will be passionate about growing the business, customer satisfaction, delivering high-quality services and solutions, developing people, and applying innovative technologies to solve customer challenges.
- Company is a software-enabled services provider, synonymous with SAP on Cloud, focused on delivering superior, highly automated Managed Services to Enterprise customers.
- Our customers span multiple verticals and geographies across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. We partner with AWS, SAP, Microsoft and other global technology leaders.
Responsibilities Duties:
Sales Targets
- Work with Regional P&L leaders to develop and execute 3-year growth plan for advancing Company’s Partner business
- Be accountable for the day-to-day execution of the plan including setting regional monthly lead generation targets and driving new bookings for both recurring and non-recurring services
- Drive sales bookings to our target Enterprise Customer Base (clients with over $1B of annual revenue)
- Sales
- Evangelize and educate Partner Sales and Pre-Sales teams on the unique value propositions of Company
- Relentlessly qualify opportunities and work with Sales, Alliances, and Pre-Sales to mobilize teams to drive initiatives to closure
- Build strong relationships within the Partner ecosystem with the aim of becoming a trusted advisor and the first choice for SAP opportunities
Pre-Sales
- Work with Company Solutions and Sales leaders to ensure correct levels of skilled pre-sales resources
- Support Chief Customer Officer to ensure that Partner specific propositions and capabilities are defined and packaged
- Provide QA on Project and Operate activities including defining Partner escalation points
Alliances and Marketing
- Manage Partner Managers, Inside Sales staff and work in close concert with Matrix aligned resources in presales, sales and delivery.
- Work with Company Marketing team to ensure Company originated and Partner originated lead targets are met through joint campaigns and activities
- Ensure Partner funding is secured and maximized
Key Skills:
- Advance Company’s attainment of Partner competencies and achievement of Partner capability and vertical certifications
- Work with Sales, Project, and Operate teams to ensure appropriate levels of skilled resources to support sales, and delivery of Partner solutions
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Partner Management
- Coordinate and lead Partner/Company global, regional and local cadence meetings, including QBRs
Experiance Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years as a practice leader in Cloud services industry with strong hands-on experience in strategic planning, business development, and operations
- Adept at tracking and measuring practice revenue, resource utilization, invoicing, billing, staffing, etc.
- Strong financial literacy – running P&Ls, assisting in the building of business cases, and understanding client budget constraints
- Ability to sustain multi-level relationships from key architects to CXO
- Ability to connect technology with measurable business value
- Entrepreneurial and laser-focused on customer outcomes
- Strong writing skills and proficiency with PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
- Understanding of Partner funding models and MDF a plus
- HubSpot Sales Hub experience a plus