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Role Summary

Reporting to the UKI Partner Success Leader, this role has day to day responsibility for all partner sales and co-selling with the AWS field sales teams into a number of business segments and territories within the UKI. This individual will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, sales teams, and partner sales and technical teams, be results driven with experience in sales, channel, or business development in infrastructure or cloud services. The successful candidate must have demonstrated leadership qualities, and will draw upon experience in sales, relationship building, and both direct and matrix operating structures. The individual must have deep experience in supporting a constantly evolving channel and alliances team, being the local presence of the business, and delivering against targets. The successful candidate will have experience of different Business Segments including Enterprise and SMB / Mid Market.

Responsibilities
· Manage a partner sales target delivered through a broad set of AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting and Technology Partners within UKI
· Lead a team of partner success managers that are responsible for the overall success of APN partners selling with the AWS field teams.
· Input to the development and execution of the all-inclusive partner strategy across SI, MSP, VAR, and ISV, including the annual planning cycle.
· Engage with AWS partner management and partner core team leaders to support the recruitment and build of partner capability within the UKI.
· Manage and develop multiple senior sales and technical relationships across a wide range of top partners and establish the partner success team as the single point of contact for selling with AWS.
· Drive efficiencies and operational improvements across the partner success function and be an active voice for change and improvement to the partner core teams.
· Manage the operational cadence of business reviews (MBR, QBR) with the sales leadership across UKI

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Significant experience covering UKI/EMEA markets
· Significant experience in sales/channel/business development
· Experience building and leading teams and have worked in matrix operating structures
· Demonstrated track record of success with sales/channel teams
· Strong verbal & written communication skills with senior leaders
· Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive goals to completion

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· MBA/Technical Undergraduate/Master’s Degree
· Experience and familiarity with the AWS platform, products, solutions and capabilities
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role