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Senior Partner Development Manager with a Strategic Distribution partner in North America.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leading the next paradigm shift in computing and is building a team of excellent sales and business development professionals to establish relationships and manage the success of our strategic Distribution partners within the Americas Partner Sales and Development organization. As a Partner Development Manager for one of our Strategic Distribution Partners, you will have the exciting opportunity to deliver on the Americas strategy to build mind share and adoption of the AWS cloud-computing platform working closely with consulting Partner Development Managers, and Sales.

Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include developing and expanding the strategic partner, understanding their services, technical solutions, vertical focus, expertise and licensing models. You will work closely with the AWS account team and with other AWS Partner Development Managers and Partner Solution Architects.
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr.

Partner Development Manager you drive forward strategic pursuits and revenue with our key distribution partner, and the consulting partners distribution manages.
Direct management of Strategic Distribution partnership account with demonstrated track record of managing high-complexity, high-revenue partner relationships
- Revenue accountability for driving in annual partner revenue with proven ability to achieve YoY growth
- Portfolio oversight requiring strategic resource allocation decisions across partner portfolio based on growth potential and strategic alignment
- Cross-functional coordination across internal AWS teams including sales, solutions architecture, services, and product organizations
- Executive representation at regional leadership forums, Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with AWS and partner leadership
- Investment approval authority for partner-specific investments and funding allocations within defined thresholds
- Strategic objective setting to establish partner business objectives aligned with distribution programs and revenue goals
- Partner Led Go-to-market strategy ownership to determine strategic focus areas, activation approaches, and industry-led initiatives for managed partners
- Partner Business Planning: Create and execute comprehensive 1/3/5-year strategic Partner business plans using industry-led Build, Develop, Market, and Sell approaches
A day in the life
The Sr. PDM acts as the owner of the named partner's business within AWS, and consistently looks for ways to strengthen the partner's differentiation and business execution with AWS.

The Sr. PDM will help with organizing and actively participating in GTM activities. Lastly the PDM is the advocate for the partner into the AWS organization helping with various day-to-day activities and aligning the partner resources with AWS PSMs, with AWS Sales and BD functions.

The Sr. PDM has a data-driven mindset and is establishing mechanisms to create operational excellence in his partner development. The Sr.

PDM helps the partner look beyond the day-to -day to learn from and drive experiments/incubations/initiatives that can potentially scale out to help broader partner base of AWS
About the team
This position is part of the AWS Partner Sales and Development organization. Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technological domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners.

Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.
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