Associate Account Executive, Customer Acquisition

DESCRIPTION

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small-

and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Amazon Web Services is growing our Sales team to help more companies make the move to AWS. If you are passionate about cloud technologies and sales, AWS could be the right fit for your next career move. AWS offers an innovative environment where an eager candidate can advance through sales on a learning and earning path.

This team supports sales and focuses on customers and prospects of all types of in North America. As a Customer Acquisition Representative (CAR), you will have the exciting opportunity to help prospects and customers make the transformational move to AWS. To support your outbound selling efforts, we will use multi-modal, targeted campaigns, to help you identify new customer sales opportunities. Once engaged with a customer or prospect, you will successfully understand customer business issues by using excellent listening and communication skills, demonstrate how these issues can be solved and the unique benefits of solving them with AWS services. Your primary responsibilities will include using intelligent prospecting persistence to identify, create and qualify opportunities, then work with sales to ensure the opportunity is understood and next steps are clearly defined. Once qualified, you will use an opportunity management processes to ensure that opportunities are handed off to appropriate sales resources in a timely, customer friendly manner. Your success will be measured by achievement of individual and team activity and opportunity creation goals.

Key job responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities will include using intelligent prospecting persistence to identify, create and qualify opportunities, then work with other sales team members to ensure the opportunity is understood and next steps are clearly defined. Once qualified, you will use opportunity management processes to ensure that opportunities are handed off to appropriate sales resources in a timely, customer friendly manner. Your success will be measured by achievement of individual and team activity and opportunity creation goals. We are a call first culture using email as a secondary mechanism.

A day in the life

As a Demand Generation Representative (DGR), you will have the exciting opportunity to help prospects and customers make the transformational move to AWS. To support your outbound selling efforts, you will use multi-modal, targeted campaigns, to help you identify new customer opportunities. Once engaged with a customer or prospect, you will successfully understand customer business issues by using excellent listening and communication skills, demonstrate how these issues can be solved and the unique benefits of solving them with AWS services.

About the team

Amazon Web Services is growing our Sales team to help more companies make the move to AWS. The Demand Generation team supports critical sales functions and focuses on customers and prospects of all types in North America.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

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Hybrid Work

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in IT sales

Experience navigating prospective accounts from and into a senior executive level to identify new customer opportunities

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Sales or equivalent certification

Experience using Salesforce

Experience with Microsoft Office products and applications

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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