Business Operations Lead, Cloud Sales Center Operations - East Palo Alto, United States - Amazon

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider, offering virtualized infrastructure, storage, networking, messaging, analytics, and other web computing services to customers all over the world. AWS operates a globally distributed environment at massive levels of scale, offering over 200 fully featured services to millions of active customers around the world—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—to power their infrastructure. Within the AWS WW Commercial Sales (WWCS) organization, the Sales Strategy and Operations team is responsible for supporting Leadership, Sales, and Operational teams in achieving organizational objectives and driving continuous improvements in field productivity. We own and deliver "run the business" (RTB) operational cadences, build new mechanisms to support organizational growth and scale, and drive organizational initiatives.

The Field Business Operations function within North America SSOE is responsible for defining and leading the in-year planning activities and business reviews for the North America Commercial Sales business. We are seeking a Field Business Operations Lead to partner with the Head of North America Field Business Operations to define, land and execute against our strategic priorities. This role will serve as a business partner to sales operations and sales leaders in their Area to lead rhythm of the business activities such as Monthly Business Reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews, Monthly Metrics Reviews and other cadenced reporting and metrics for the teams. The role will also facilitate landing of North America mechanisms to support business objectives related to revenue growth and productivity improvements.

The ideal candidate has experience in business management, program management, or operations in a sales organization and has high business acumen and strong analytical skills. This is a hands-on position - the candidate must be willing to "roll up the sleeves". The candidate will be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving, a passion for identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, and has the foresight to anticipate business needs, make tradeoffs, and balance business dynamics despite constraints. The lead will thrive in a fast-paced environment, will be able to manage through ambiguity and complexity, and constantly seek ways to invent and simplify business processes. Maturity, strong judgment, and the ability to influence are all essential to success in this role.

Location: U.S. city with AWS corporate office.

Key job responsibilities

• Define the operational cadence for the Area business and manage in-year business planning activities

• Manage Weekly Business Reviews, Monthly Business Reviews & Quarterly Business Reviews

• Manage monthly CEO reviews

• Drive change management and communications for North America mechanisms and tools for the business including Account Planning, Events, Win / Loss, Executive Engagement

• Partner with worldwide SSOE to align operating cadence across Geos/Areas

• Continuously improve output quality, effectiveness and velocity of planning mechanisms

• Act as primary point of escalation for the Areas for planning mechanisms related feedback and issues

About the team

About AWS

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About Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | East Palo Alto, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of Microsoft Excel experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience developing and implementing systems/tools utilized for CRM, variable compensation, revenue reporting, forecasting, Salesforce automation, etc.
• Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Salesforce (or other CRM tool) or BI tools
• Experience presenting to senior leadership

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $107,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $199,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location 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. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.