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Description

For more than 11 years, Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 100 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 AWS, the Automotive and Manufacturing Industry Business Unit (IBU) is responsible for supporting multi-national enterprise organizations from the Automotive and Manufacturing industries in their journey to the cloud. The team is a diverse organization comprised of Global Account Managers, Global Account Representatives, Solution Architects, Customer Solutions Managers, Go-to-Market professionals, Tech Strategists, Business Development professionals, Partner Sales Managers and Sales Operations professionals situated across the globe. We are a team of builders that set out every day to innovate on behalf of AWS’s largest customers and disrupt the status quo on their behalf. We don’t sit back and watch the world change; we’re the ones changing it. And we are on the hunt for curious and inventive builders who want to join a team where every day is full of engaging and meaningful work.

The Automotive & Manufacturing IBU is seeking an experienced Program Manager who will build and lead key initiatives and programs aligned with our long-term strategic priorities.

We need a Program Manager with strong automotive and/or manufacturing industry background, program management skills, communication skills, finance familiarity, an understanding of emerging technology product and business fundamentals, and an ability to think strategically and scale new programs. A core component of this role will also be operating both externally and internally, collaborating with teams that both build and execute strategies, managing IBU communications, including the development and execution of our organizational communications strategy aligned to industry strategy. The ideal candidate has a strong technology background and program management background, combined with experience in managing key customer and partner executive engagements. The ideal candidate will also be an exceptionally strong analytical thinker with a track record of systems-level problem solving and developing successful strategic plans to execute in highly ambiguous and innovative problem spaces using data. They will thrive in fast-paced dynamic environments and have very strong communication and presentation skills.

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.

This role can potentially also be based in Paris, London, Washington DC or Detroit.

Key job responsibilities

• Partner with Auto&Mfg Industry Business Unit (IBU) leadership team, extended stakeholder teams (ProServe, AIP, APN COE, Legal, Marketing, Enterprise Support, Field Enablement), and AGS STO teams to build programs and enablement that will accelerate industry transformation. Strengthen the connection issues among different teams to remove blockers for business growth.

• Develop new programs, mechanisms, and automation to track, assess, and uncover new business insights for the executive engagements for IBU Direct and STO strategic accounts, including regular cadence, briefing doc development, and meeting notes distribution/follow-ups.

• Exhibit proactive ability and expertise in setting business operations and performance discussions across other business stakeholder organizations (AWS Industry Products, AWS Professional Services, AWS Partner organization, etc.)

• Relentlessly simplify and improve existing business operations systems

• Effectively develop and cultivate multi-channel communication strategy to share knowledge, wins, insights and create a community feel between our globally dispersed teams.

• Lead the IBU participation at industry events, including track internal team attendance, customer/partner executive matching, post-event follow-ups.

• Simplify and improve existing mechanisms for customer/partner engagements, including EBC, Executive Sponsorship Program, CIO/CISO council, and etc. Always gather best practices from AWS engagement leads community.

• Be the Point of Contact for account teams to deliver bar-raising AWS senior leader engagements, including Director and CEO engagements.

• Own the design and delivery of the org-level initiatives agreed within IBU leadership team, including LT quarterly, IBU leaders’ initiatives, and AWSI initiatives (Women at AWSI, PET, ID&E etc).

• Develop and implement the communication strategy with GTM content team for the IBU organization to accelerate industry transformation.

• Lead and cultivate multi-channel communication strategy to share knowledge, wins, insights and create a community feel between our globally dispersed teams.

• Drive content creation with GTM and marketing team for the IBU executive keynotes and speaking, including leaders’ video messages, internal All-team calls, fireside chats, panel discussions, annual kick-offs, speaking at industry events, and etc.

• Manage IBU program budget with finance team.

About the team

About AWS

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Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of automotive and/or manufacturing industry experience in roles aligned to industry transformation, technology business development, product and partner management, solution development, or venture investing experience in a corporate environment

• 5+ years building strategic business programs and/or experience in managing program execution in related areas

• Strong analytical skills, and demonstrated ability to turn detailed data analysis into useful strategic insight in order to make appropriate recommendations to the business

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering, business management, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading process improvements

• Industry Executive with Automotive industry experience and cloud/technology practitioner skills and expertise.

• Proven ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced start-up like environment

• Highly organized with multi-tasking skills; efficient in ambiguous situations and outstanding attention to detail.

• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach with the ability to easily transition from high level strategic thinking to creative and detailed execution

• A bias for action for developing high quality communications assets (presentations, videos, scripts)

• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries and superb written and verbal communicator who can drive consensus and articulate recommendations and trade-offs to senior executives.

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