Sr. Mgr Digital Sovereignty, Sovereign Cloud

**DESCRIPTION**:
Does the challenge that comes from leading and driving large, cross-organizational projects and initiatives for one of the largest Cloud providers excite you? Do you enjoy working in an entrepreneurial environment solving complex problems and delivering innovative solutions?

We are seeking a senior sales leader to build and lead our Digital Sovereignty Specialist Sales team. This specialized team serves as trusted advisors, driving adoption of AWS solutions that help customers and partners navigate complex digital sovereignty requirements while supporting AGS, AWSI, and WWPS sales teams across partners and customers through complex deal negotiations worldwide and accelerating revenue growth and pipeline development. This role will manage our Digital Competency Partner initiatives, where we collaborate with partners to develop innovative sovereign-by-design solutions that address evolving market demands.

Key job responsibilities
- Team Leadership and Development: Build and lead a dedicated Digital Sovereignty specialist sales team comprising both partner and customer sales specialists. Drive operational excellence and strengthen strategic alignment across all Digital Sovereignty sales efforts. Provide coaching, mentoring, and guidance to drive performance and professional growth.
- Strategic Engagement and Influence: Drive strategic relationships with C-level executives and technical decision-makers. Act as a trusted advisor to provide sovereign cloud expertise and value propositions. Take a leadership role proposing and closing large deals.
- Customer Success and Relationship Management: Foster and develop strategic customer relationships to accelerate adoption of sovereign cloud solutions. Identify customer needs and challenges while providing technical and business guidance to support customer success.
- Strategic Planning and Analysis: Contribute to the development of multi-year strategic roadmaps. Analyze market trends and customer feedback to inform strategy and collaborate with BI/Sales operations to leverage data insights for decision-making.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Drive alignment across multiple stakeholder groups and facilitate effective communication and collaboration between different business units.
- Business Growth and Innovation: Identify and develop new business opportunities through influence and expertise. Provide thought leadership in sovereign cloud solutions and support sales teams in complex deal structures and negotiations.
- Operational Excellence: Drive best practices and process improvements while ensuring alignment with compliance and regulatory requirements. Contribute to the development of scalable approaches for business growth.
- Stakeholder Management Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Demonstrate AWS leadership principles in all interactions while maintaining effective communication channels across all levels.

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- 8+ years of sales experience
- Proven experience in complex enterprise sales
- Experience managing teams to achieve significant revenue targets ($200M+)
- Experience of develop long-term strategic relationships with key accounts
- Experience analyzing data and best practices to assess performance drivers
- Experience planning, managing and closing competitive sales efforts and managing deals from negotiation, to closing and through delivery
- Experience proactively growing customer relationships within an account while expanding their understanding of the customer's business
- A proven track record of implementing, delivering large projects and communicating effectively at executive level

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Ability to organize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Experience working in a global team environment with multiple time zones
- Ability to handle changing priorities and use good judgment when working in stressful situations
- Demonstrated ability to formulate data driven decisions that lead to results
- Experience in sovereign cloud solutions or similar highly regulated environments