Senior Storage Sales Specialist, Financial Services, AWS Global Sales
Description
As an AWS Storage Sales Specialist, you will contribute to driving adoption and revenue growth for AWS's comprehensive suite of storage services, with a focus on their integration with Generative AI technologies. Your role will involve implementing strategic approaches to identify high-value customer opportunities and engaging with AWS customers to understand their data needs and align them with AWS storage solutions. You will handle complex initiatives throughout the full-cycle sales engagement plan, from identifying qualified leads to realizing revenue.
Key job responsibilities
Drive Revenue Growth: Achieve and exceed quarterly and annual sales quotas for storage solutions across the assigned territory or named accounts
Solution Development: Collaborate with customers to understand their data management challenges and design comprehensive storage solutions encompassing SAN, NAS, object storage, cloud storage, and hybrid architectures
Account Planning: Develop and execute strategic account plans that identify opportunities, map stakeholders, and outline engagement strategies to maximize wallet share within target accounts
Technical Discovery: Lead discovery sessions to assess customer environments, identify pain points, and quantify business impact of storage inefficiencies, data protection gaps, and capacity constraints
Proposal Development: Create compelling proposals and business cases that articulate ROI, TCO analysis, and competitive differentiation for recommended storage solutions
Sales Cycle Management: Own the full sales cycle from prospecting through close, including qualification, demonstration coordination, proof-of-concept management, negotiation, and contract execution
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with solution architects, professional services, account teams, partners, and customer success teams
Pipeline Development: Maintain a healthy pipeline through proactive prospecting, lead follow-up, customer referrals
Market Intelligence: Stay current on storage industry trends, competitive landscape and emerging technologies. Gather customer feedback to inform product roadmaps and enhance the AWS storage service offerings
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of technology sales selling enterprise software, networking, infrastructure, managed hosting services, or cloud computing services experience
5+ years of direct field experience selling software or cloud solutions experience
Experience positioning and selling innovative solutions to new and existing customers and market segments
Experience communicating clearly and concisely with leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the financial services industry
Experience in management of large, complex enterprise accounts or equivalent
Company
AWS 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.