Account Executive, Government, PubSec - Local Gov West, Amazon Business

About the role

The Amazon Business Local Government team is dedicated to developing solutions that make it easy for business customers to buy on Amazon.com through an Amazon Business Account. Sr Account Executives are responsible for initiating and developing strong relationships with medium-large public sector agencies as business customers. They balance their time between acquiring new business customers and assisting those customers in enabling their account to best suit their specific needs. The candidate will work closely with customers to understand their procurement requirements and then work with internal Amazon teams to determine the best solution to addresses the business needs. The ideal candidate will have experience developing relationships at the C-Suite level, as well as across functional areas such as procurement, production, maintenance, supply chain and IT and has a proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales goals.

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate weekly reporting on pipeline and customer spend adoption, including account status updates and insights learned during deployment
• Provide strategic account engagement that helps customers implement solutions that solve industry-specific procurement challenges
• Drive and accelerate spend adoption by advising customers on best practices for using Amazon Business solutions
• Focus on automating service needs for customers, while working with Product and Technical teams to develop solutions that will increase solution adoption
• Relay market needs and requirements back to internal Amazon teams, including Product, Technical, and Category Management teams
• Business/Customer Travel (25-50%)

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 3+ years of sales or marketing work (like e-commerce, retail technology, SaaS) or equivalent experience
• Experience positioning and selling innovative solutions to new and existing customers and market segments
• Experience identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels
• Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
• 3+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience
• Knowledge of procurement and source to pay processes and solutions or equivalent experience
• Experience with MS Office Suite, CRMs (Salesforce) and other systems
• Sales experience selling to Fortune 1000 senior leadership or with Govt. sector
• Experience owning customer facing communication including leading in-person or virtual customer meetings, product demonstrations, or trainings

Pay

Base salary range: $69,000.00 - $120,800.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

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