Amazon Hiring for Life Sciences Business Development Manager – Industry Specialist at Seattle, Washington Full Time

Description

Join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Healthcare and Life Sciences (HCLS) Industry team to execute on the industry strategy by working backwards and in collaboration with the world’s most innovative companies. Our team focuses on engaging directly with technical leaders, C-level executives and influencers at all levels across the Life Sciences segment and around the world to support a digitally-enhanced, data-driven healthcare.

As an Industry Specialist for Life Sciences, you will be part of the HCLS Business Development team that shapes and delivers on a life sciences strategy to help the healthcare ecosystem transform. Your responsibilities will include engaging with C-suite customers across Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations to deepen our relationships, working with strategic industry partners, attending and speaking at industry events to drive thought leadership, leading the process to guide our Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy, and creating significant business opportunities for AWS.

You will work closely with the AWS sales leadership in engaging with Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations at the executive level (CxO/SVP/VP) to drive their strategic interactions with clients. You will think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges and build and convey compelling value propositions, and work cross-organizationally to build consensus. You will lead and drive multiple complex initiatives across technical and non-technical stakeholders to meet business objectives with a customer-obsessed and collaborative approach, strong data and metrics, a good understanding of industry ecosystems for Healthcare and Life Sciences, and a passion for helping them transform using cloud technologies. You will work closely with the AWS product and services teams to help evolve AWS offerings for more rapid adoption by customers.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.

Key job responsibilities

• Act as Industry Specialist in Life Sciences and Healthcare domains (HCLS)

• Engage with our customers to unlock strategic opportunities and how AWS can help address their business needs

• Work with technical experts to adapt AWS cloud services to core industry problems

• Interact with C-Level business stakeholders and process owners to define and execute roadmaps

A day in the life

Your responsibilities will include acting as a business trusted advisor to our HCLS customers, internal AWS sales and account teams, identify and gather HCLS market signals to define our GtM strategy, and engage in increasing our thought leadership and market visibility in the region.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in Life Sciences or related industry, technology-enabled consulting, product management, product marketing, business development, and/or transformation roles in the enterprise across healthcare

• 6+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience

• 6+ years of responding to requests for proposals (e.g., determining requirements, matching requirements to technical approach and solutions, developing solutions against requirements) experience

• 6+ years of experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations

• Experience identifying, negotiating, and executing complex legal agreements

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $133,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $220,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.