Customer Practice Manager – Education / State and Local Government, Public Sector Professional Services

DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in working with Canada’s Public Sector as they navigate through some of the most dynamic and disruptive transformation projects in their organization’s history? Does the prospect of empowering these organizations cloud transformation success by aligning professional services to critical business and IT outcomes, overseeing and assessing engagement delivery, driving a holistic partner strategy and providing insight to accelerate rate of execution/adoption of cloud technology excite you?

AWS Public Sector Professional Services is seeking a Customer Practice Manager who has experience providing consulting solutions to Education and State / Provincial Government. As a Practice Manager, you will be responsible for working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions. You will routinely engage with Director, VP, C-level executives and governing boards. You will be responsible for capturing opportunity and driving engagement delivery.

Key job responsibilities

• You will work closely with partner teams; envision business development initiatives through thought leadership; provide portfolio guidance and oversight; while working backwards from the needs of our customers.
• You bring a diverse IT and/or Management Consulting background and knowledge of industry IT trends within the Public Sector space, leveraging this credibility as a strategic advisor to our customers, partners and internally across AWS.
• You’re able to craft an innovative, forward-looking strategy while clearly outlining the investment and multi-step go-to-market plan necessary to help AWS customers lead the changes to IT strategy, policies, processes, people, governance and partnerships.
• Lead business outcomes – ability to articulate accelerated customer outcomes through cloud technologies.

About the team

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• • 7+ Experience leading consulting verticals for Education / Canadian State and Local Government.
• • 5+ years consulting practice leadership experience as manager with P&L responsibility.
• • Experience selling and delivering technology consulting services.
• • Experience with providing strategic, consultative services in a sales or advisory services environment.
• • Knowledge of the industry, understanding of consulting contract vehicles and related RFx activities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• • Experience in consulting firm helping transform the IT organization of multi-national enterprises
• • Experience with Canadian Public Sector procurement and delivery of Advisory services
• • High-level of skill communicating and collaborating effectively across internal and external organizations, including sales, solution architects and customers
• • Experience in a fast-paced, startup (or startup-like) environment and experience
• • Proven experience migrating production enterprise applications to Public and Private Cloud
• • Experience with ITSM processes and ITIL, along with integration experience of Cloud solutions and services with enterprise IT Service Management systems and processes
• • Bachelors or Master’s degree in information technology or computer science or equivalent experience

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The base salary for this position ranges from $126,000/year up to $210,400/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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