Cloud Economist – Value Engineering, Cloud Economics EMEA

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: Amazon
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Category: IT & Technology
DESCRIPTION

Would you like to be part of a cross-functional team focused on assessing the comparative costs of migrating and running applications on AWS? Are you good at defining and quantifying business value, benefits and migration costs of improved processes and tooling? Do you have the business background, analytical skills and communication skills needed to help further accelerate cloud adoption?

As a Cloud Economics Business Development Manager, you will help AWS customers shape their strategies and IT financial models, and quantify both the cost and value benefits of running applications in the cloud. To do this, you will collaborate with AWS sales teams to engage prospective customers to share best practices finance strategies and build board-ready migration business cases. You will identify economic barriers in the adoption of AWS and develop strategies to overcome these barriers. You will communicate the economic value proposition for AWS to a broad audience of Finance, Business and IT leaders by engaging directly with C-level executives, IT professionals and influencers at all levels.

Your responsibilities will include driving ROI/economic related business development activities within AWS, together with the sales teams on strategic customer engagements. You will serve as an expert resource on the financial modelling of IT applications and infrastructures and quantification of value benefits. In appropriate cases you will bring in other AWS resources as necessary to help our customers properly evaluate their IT options from an economic perspective.

The ideal candidate will have financial acumen to drive an engagement and interact with AWS customers. The candidate will have the basic technical knowledge and business experience to communicate the economic benefits of computing to IT architects, engineering teams and C-Level executives. The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and long-term about the needs of EMEA customers. The ideal candidate will also be familiar with complex legacy IT environments, with data centre economics including data centre migration and refresh cycles, with common enterprise virtualization environments, and be capable of creating detailed cost models for these environments. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated abilities to influence decision makers in a consultative selling approach (preferably through previous consulting, sales or similar customer experience) to progress decision making through their personal involvement with developing and presenting a compelling business case.

Key job responsibilities Serve as a key member of the Business Development team in helping to drive AWS Marketing and Sales engagements with our customers regarding the economics of their IT infrastructure. Work with AWS Sales, BD and Marketing teams, drive proactive of ROI/economic conversations with our customers. Serve as a central resource for the Sales team to help our customers create appropriately detailed financial models for their current and future IT landscape. Create a repository of Economic cases studies and conversations to share learnings with all parts of AWS. Serve as a key source of market insights into how our customers view the economic benefit of using AWS relative to deploying applications on-premise or in traditional data centres. Work with internal stakeholders to communicate market realities regarding the economics of running IT applications and infrastructures in the when compared to a traditional data centre environment. Prepare and present business reviews to the senior management team regarding progress and roadblocks on cost and business value related issues.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 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 influencing internal and external stakeholders. Experience developing financial models and comparative analysis.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations. Experience with technology transformation initiatives. Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external stakeholders.

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