Description AWS is expanding its North American Outbound Customer Acquisition Sales team. As a Customer Acquisition leader, you'll manage a team of representatives to generate high-quality sales opportunities and accelerate customer growth. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive AWS service adoption and market expansion. Your role involves strategic planning, stakeholder management, and developing early career talent through coaching and mentoring. You'll focus on helping your team exceed KPIs, build sales and leadership skills, and advance within AWS Global Sales. This position is crucial for pipeline generation, customer acquisition, and fostering a talent development flywheel across the organization. Success will be measured by building an operationally excellent team. You will rely on data and analysis provided by operations teams, but also self-generated, to dive deep into performance trends and inform decisions to produce successful outcomes. As a manager, you will be responsible for upholding Amazon’s goal of Striving to be Earth’s Best Employer through effective hiring, people management, coaching, and culture building. Key job responsibilities * Manage team in building top of funnel pipeline defined as executing effective prospecting to schedule new customers meetings and facilitate early stage customer conversations to generate qualified opportunities for Field Sales progression. * Identify internal and external challenges, and work to build scalable mechanisms that drive solutions/impact for your immediate team as well as your extended stakeholder organization. * Oversee all aspects of individual and team-wide coaching and enablement to develop early career talent, including developing sales acumen/skills-based competencies and Amazon Leadership Principles-based competencies. * Be the trusted advisor and voice of Demand Generation to regional/segment sales leaders and cross-functional teams through monthly business reviews and cross-functional roundtables. * Manage team to weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance KPIs and goals, including but not limited to: outbound calls, meetings scheduled, opportunity creation, and marketing lead follow up. * Grow technical acumen and understanding of customer business issues through ongoing professional development and direct customer engagement. * Contribute to initiatives such as culture-building, piloting new tools and resources, and rep and manager development. About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Basic Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent - Experience using data and trends to articulate business needs or equivalent - Experience working with a matrixed team of stakeholders to achieve a common goal or equivalent - 7+ years of technology related sales, business development or equivalent experience - 5+ years of sales management experience Preferred Qualifications - Experience managing time efficiently, meeting personal goals, and working effectively with internal, partner, and customer teams Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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