Head of Startup Acquisition (AWS EMEA)

Amazon ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables customers of all sizes to run their applications on Amazon's industry-leading cloud computing infrastructure. AWS is growing very rapidly with hundreds of thousands of companies in over 190 countries on the platform. Amazon has a strong culture of data-driven decision-making; requiring timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence that delivers significant business value. As in AWS we are reinforcing our segmentation model, we are looking for a senior strategic yet hands-on leader who is passionate about leading an organization and using data to help us measure every area of the business and influence decision-making. This thought leader will manage the Startup segment collaborating with the sales and marketing functions to define, land and execute against our strategic priorities for the business. The ideal candidate has broad technical skills, strong financial acumen and a deep analytical background to assist the EMEA business in creating efficiency, assessing performance and recommending business insights that will accelerate customer acquisition and accelerate the sales funnel. This leader will act as a trusted advisor to the EMEA board of directors and Startup segment leaders. Analyse data to extract business insights, develop GTM strategies, scale the business and lead a team of Demand Generation Reps (DGRs) focused on the early stages of the customer journey. The team will invest efforts to gain a deeper understanding of customer needs and collecting their feedback to extract market leading patterns. This role would need to be knowledgeable in different business functions and models for sales, business development and marketing. A background in managing sales strategy, business analysts, marketing, sales or business development teams is therefore very desirable. The responsibilities will also include mentoring and developing the DGRs, monitoring their performance and creating scaling mechanisms. The Startup Leader will drive improvements to the reporting tools, methods, and processes utilized by the sales team to increase their reach, availability and focus on actionable outcomes with their customers. The individual will need to collaborate effectively with internal end-users and cross-functional data teams to solve problems, implement new reporting solutions, and deliver successfully against high standards. This position also manages the administration and execution of the team's targets, including segmentation of business goals, measurement of goal attainment, evolving and driving various sales campaigns and proposing improvements to the business to increase its effectiveness in driving desired results. Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Support the evolution, integration, and implementation of sales systems/processes to meet the rapid growth of the business and targets attainment Manage the monthly cadenced business reporting to senior leadership and rhythm of business Analyse data and trends and make informed recommendations to the sales teams and managers Manage continuously-evolving forecast models and methodologies, owning the quantitative analysis of the performance of our sales team Develop relationships and work with sales, partner, sales operations, and other stakeholders to create and refine the tools and processes needed to drive productivity increases. Manage Sales Compensation scheme and revenue recognition operations Identify reporting issues, gaps in processes, and drive timely resolution Prepare ad-hoc analysis & participate on projects as needed