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Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion dollar global business. At Amazon Business, a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential.

At Amazon Business, we are focused on building the world’s most customer-centric B2B store. We build solutions to enable business customers to discover, research, and purchase products from a competitive marketplace with a vast selection, across multiple devices and regions, and with an increasing array of customer-centric features and integrations. We already built a sizable customer base that ranges from sole traders to large Enterprises in a wide range of industries. To achieve the level of automation we desire for customers, the AB store requires a web of connections (“integrations”) with a variety of purchasing, invoicing, and procurement-related solutions. The AB Partnerships team works with B2B companies to create this web of connections and integrated solutions that improves the end-to-end B2B purchasing experience.

We are looking for a high-caliber, results-focused business development executive with a talent for stakeholder management. This person will enjoy developing broad and strong relationships with external organizations and other parts of Amazon to find opportunities to grow Amazon Business. External B2B organizations may include eProcurement system providers, Invoicing solutions, consulting firms that undertake procurement-related work, trade associations, and travel and expense management software vendors. This individual will nurture and rapidly expand existing partnerships, establish new lead generation and customer acquisition opportunities, demonstrate results, and play an important role in shaping Amazon Business’s partnership strategy.


Key job responsibilities
• Identify technology and commercial opportunities with partners, defining business cases to justify investment where required, and drive rapid progress from team in executing against these opportunities.

• Work with a select group of new and existing partners to define and execute joint sales and Go to Market (GTM) programs in different regions.

• Engage assigned partners and their end customers to create and drive revenue opportunities for Amazon Business.

• Set and manage partner revenue targets and work with Amazon Business sales organizations to achieve/exceed goals.

• Manage a pipeline of partnership opportunities associated with assigned partner programs and solutions.

• Understand the technical requirements of our partners and work closely with the internal development team to guide the direction of our product offerings and joint partner solutions.

• Work with CRM systems, data warehousing, and other analytic tools to establish detailed metrics for tracking purposes.

• Prepare and give business quarterly business reviews to the senior management team. Manage complex contract negotiations and serve as a liaison to the legal group.

• Collaborate with, and influence, sales, marketing, product managers and other internal stakeholders.