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Would you like to help our most strategic corporate partners engage with Amazon? Do you have experience and passion in event and senior executive meeting preparation and partner management programs? The Amazon Corporate Business Development team is expanding our capabilities around executive engagement with Amazon’s most strategic partners. This role will work closely with our corporate business development managers, executive (C-suite) offices, and marketing event team to raise the bar in how we execute communications, messaging, meeting preparation, action tracking and follow-up to ensure impact and results. The successful candidate will be a self-starter that thrives in ambiguity, with the ability to manage through influence, and a willingness to dive deep and define methods and operational mechanisms, while earning trust with internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated history of success managing C-level communications and is capable of engaging with cross-functional teams. The candidate will possess a strong customer-first mindset, analytical skill-set, and have a track record for operating consistently and at high quality in a structured manner. This role will be highly visible at the most senior levels within Amazon, and offers a unique opportunity for candidates who want to design, build, and scale programs with meaningful impact across Amazon business units. We seek candidates with a mix of executive engagement, writing/editing, and program management experience, with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and experience in a partner/BD function. Experience building and delivering programs and bringing them to scale is a must, along with a strong aptitude for learning new things and diving deep. The right candidate is a highly effective written and oral communicator and editor who has high judgement and EQ, and is comfortable in a hands-on role that requires working against tight deadlines, and “rolling up one’s sleeves to get the job done”.

Key job responsibilities
– Managing executive briefing documents designed to prepare Amazon’s senior leaders for meetings with counterparts at our partner companies (CEO/CXO level), either as one-to-ones, or in preparation for events (many meetings over several days).
– Build repeatable programs for world-class meeting and event preparation, including alignment with account teams, and other internal Amazon business unit teams.
– Help define and improve processes to streamline this work area/program, leveraging new and existing tools and project management techniques.
– Active tracking of all meetings, action items, follow-ups and events during the course of the year, with responsibility for proactive communication and engagement with teams required in preparation of executive messaging, and up-to-date insights and relevant updates.
– Defining and delivering quantifiable results demonstrating success and impact of the program and meeting outcomes.
– Establishing mechanisms, tools, and processes that promote effective collaboration internally and externally while earning trust with partner teams and internal Amazon stakeholders.

A day in the life
Working closely with the CorpBD team, and C-Suite offices, the role will work to prepare work-back project times lines and schedules, internal communications, and all aspects of briefing doc quality and event preparation. Responsible for bar-raising the quality of documents, proofreading, thoroughness and appropriate level of messaging and data required for high-caliber meetings. In many cases, working on tight deadlines will be required, and collaborating across teams to gather and inspect the level and quality of messaging required to prepare a successful meeting and agenda of topics. The role will feed insights and learning back to the core partner program to support ongoing improvement and learning.

About the team
The Partner Programs team within Amazon Corporate Business Development is responsible for supporting Amazon’s most strategic partnership relationships, and for scaling partnership management excellence across all relationships managed within CorpBD. The team focuses on driving long term value for Amazon through holistic strategic partnerships with industry leading companies with whom we have shared interests, cultural compatibility, and unique potential to create enduring value for end customers. We aim to accomplish this by establishing and fostering multi-year top-to-top relationships, effective executive engagements, and driving transformational impact for Amazon, our partners, and the customers we serve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree
– 7+ years of professional or military experience
– 7+ years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience
– Experience influencing internal and external stakeholders
– Experience developing strategies that influence leadership decisions at the organizational level
– Experience in partnership/BD or events and executive communications
– Strong written a communication skills, with proven track record engagement with senior executives and their administrative staff

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– MBA
– Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or equivalent
– Experience in executive communications, project management, and/or partner management
– Program Management skills and comfort building repeatable programs and mechanisms
– Experience working across business units and managing through influence
– Excellent writing/editorial skills to communicate complex issues, including the ability to write executive communications, status reports for senior executives to inform decision making.
– Self-starter who can operate independently in a highly ambiguous, fast-paced environment, but interested in building structure and repeatable processes

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $158,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $262,000/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.

USA, WA, Seattle