APJ Transformation Associate - #1209400

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

As a full-time transformation associate, you will lead and manage projects to streamline and transform our operating model to unlock new business opportunities or do more for our customers in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). You will have the exciting opportunity to work cross-functionally and cross-geographically to identify problems and gaps, collect and analyze data, generate insights, come up with solutions, and implement them. You will execute on your proposed business transformation programs to solve difficult problems and remove blockers for our customers and our business. You will independently manage projects and run programs to deliver value for our business. To do so, you will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders such as sales, operations, and marketing teams. Through leading initiatives across Asia-Pacific, you will gain a unique insight into the internal workings of one of the world’s fastest growing IT organizations.

Key job responsibilities
We hire builders and are looking for people who enjoy problem solving and driving initiatives that can create huge impact for our customers and business.

The ideal candidate:

• Has strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to lead and drive initiatives
• Has a track record for of driving operational excellence and landing and sustaining change
• Is creative and able to innovate and simplify process
• Is curious to learn and comfortable with ambiguity and a highly fluid environment
• Has good communications skills
• Is analytical and has strong financial/business acumen
• Has a “can-do” spirit with a strong sense of ownership to execute end-to-end projects
• Has outstanding interpersonal skills and is able to earn trust and influence others
• Is independent and comfortable with navigating ambiguity
• Is highly organized and can multi-task and prioritize competing stakeholder requests
• Uses a customer-centric approach to solve problems
• Thrives in a lean, fast-paced, entrepreneurial, multi-cultural environment
• Has a passion for AWS and driving cloud computing adoption across Asia-Pacific

Basic qualifications

• 6+ years of professional or military experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations

Preferred qualifications

• Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations