Delivery Practice Manager, Professional Services

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 Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking an experienced Delivery Practice Manager (DPM) to join our ProServe Shared Delivery Team (SDT) at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, you'll manage a team of ProServe Delivery Consultants while supporting AWS enterprise customers through transformative projects. You'll leverage your IT and/or Management Consulting background to serve as a strategic advisor to customers, partners, and internal AWS teams.

As a DPM you will be responsible for building and managing a team of Delivery Consultants and or Engagement Managers working with customers and partners to architect and implement innovative solutions. You'll routinely engage with Director, C-level executives, and governing boards, whilst being responsible for opportunity capture and driving engagement delivery. You'll work closely with partner teams; drive business development initiatives through thought leadership; provide portfolio guidance and oversight; and meet and exceed customer satisfaction targets. As a DPM you are primarily focused directly or through their teams, on understanding and defining business outcomes for customers by building trust, identifying applicable AWS Professional Services offerings, and creating proposals and SOW's.

Your experience gained leading teams within the technology sector, will equip you with the ability to optimize team performance through implementing tailored people development plans, ensuring your teams are aligned to customer needs, and have the skills and capacity to address customer outcomes. Possessing the ability to translate technical concepts into business value for customers and then talk in technical depth with teams, you will cultivate strong customer, Amazon Global Sales (AGS), and ProServe team relationships which enables exceptional business performance. DPMs success is primarily measured by consistently delivering customer engagements by supporting sales through scoping technical requirements for an engagement, delivering engagements on time, within budget, and exceeding customer expectations. They will hold the Practice total utilization goal and be responsible for optimizing team performance.

The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries.

Key job responsibilities
As an experienced Professional Services Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for:

Building and managing a high-performing team of Delivery Consultants

Collaborating with Delivery Consultants, Engagement Managers, Account Executives, and Cloud Architects to deploy solutions and provide input on new features

Developing and overseeing the implementation of innovative, forward-looking IT strategies for customers

Managing practice P&L, ensuring on-time and within-budget delivery of customer engagements

Driving business development initiatives and exceed customer satisfaction targets

Experience in Amazon Connect capabilities, benefits, and required deployment skills.

Responsible for designing, implementing and operating contact centers or telecommunication infrastructures within an enterprise environment

About the team
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Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of direct people management leading a team of consultants experience
- Experience in program or engagement management, leading other project managers to deliver a program with multiple and concurrent projects
- Experience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects
- Experience in IT consulting/management with IT Transformation in a customer-facing role
- Bachelor's degree or above

Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS Associate level certification or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
- Experience with customer relationship management, especially C-suite level customer engagement
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing transition challenges

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