Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Are you a customer-obsessed builder with a passion for helping customers achieve their full potential? Do you have the business savvy, SAP on AWS background, and SAP GROW knowledge and experience necessary to help position AWS as the cloud provider of choice for customers? Do you love building new strategic and data-driven businesses? Join AWS Specialists and Partners (ASP) org as a Sr Partner Development Manager - SAP GROW!
We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. As part of ASP, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.
Within ASP, this position is part of the worldwide SAP Partnership team, where you will lead the global partnership and development and execution of the GTM plan for AWS for GROW. The WW team sees the big picture and sets the plan so the world’s most customer obsessed technical teams can make history. You are the program leader for specialists, architects, partners, and account teams around the world and set direction and standards for how we solve customer problems in your domain. You partner with technical and business teams across AWS and bring the voice of the customer into our product development roadmap.
In this role you will be the GROW partner and GTM Lead, work with SAP on documenting the framework and requirements of the alliance, work with AWS teams (Solution Architect, Solutions & GTM Programs, Engineering, Partner Org), and work with AWS Global System Integrator and ISV Partners to establish an overarching GTM approach to differentiate AWS for GROW, influence our product strategy to deploy innovative services on AWS, develop content and GTM assets for AWS and Partner sellers to win more GROW migrations.
AWS and SAP have been collaborating since SAP became a customer in 2008. Together, we have certified AWS to support most SAP solutions, brought purpose built EC2 instances to market to support SAP customer needs, and helped SAP leverage AWS services to power a number of their SaaS and PaaS offerings like Concur, SuccessFactors (for government agencies), HANA Cloud Platform, Signavio and SAP Analytics Cloud. AWS has been supporting SAP workloads for customers longer than any other cloud provider (since 2011), and thousands of customers run their SAP ERP and adjacent business-critical systems on AWS today using GROW, traditional perpetual license, and hybrid deployment models.
Key job responsibilities
• Support the alliance and Lead GTM for product line to orchestrate sales motions across sales, marketing, partner, product, training, and professional services teams to accelerate adoption of your aligned technology domain.
• Leverage your deep domain expertise to create best in class route to market enablement and sales strategy.
• Bring market signals back to product teams to drive innovation on AWS product roadmaps.
• Own reporting and planning cadences to AWS executives on GTM plan execution.
• Demonstrate thought leadership and be able to credibly represent AWS at industry events, conferences, symposiums, etc.
• Support field teams in solution building for high priority customers.
About the team
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.
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship and Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of SAP business development, strategic partnership, product marketing, or program management experience.
- 6+ years working with SAP business and technical customers to help them migrate to the cloud, or hosted and managed service providers.
- 5+ years of sales program/business development experience including development of sales materials, partnering with field to build account plans, enabling/activating the field, and writing annual Go-To-Market (GTM) plans and Monthly Business Reviews (MBR).
- Knowledge of and direct customer experience in GROW with SAP (e.g., determining requirements, matching requirements to technical approach and solutions, developing solutions against requirements).
Job Tags
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