Senior Account Executive, K12 Education Sales, Amazon Business

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.

Key job responsibilities

Deliver accurate weekly reporting on pipeline and customer spend adoption, including account status updates and insights learned during deployment

Provide strategic account engagement that helps customers implement solutions that solve industry-specific procurement challenges

Drive and accelerate spend adoption by advising customers on best practices for using Amazon Business solutions

Focus on automating service needs for customers, while working with Product and Technical teams to develop solutions that will increase solution adoption

Relay market needs and requirements back to internal Amazon teams, including Product, Technical, and Category Management teams

About the team

The Amazon Business for Education team is dedicated to developing solutions inclusive of an expanded online store that combines the selection, convenience, and value customers have come to know and love from Amazon, with new features and unique benefits tailored to customers in the K-12 Education sector. The ideal candidate will have relevant K-12 Education consultative sales experience and have a proven track record of meeting and exceeding program goals and revenue targets.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

5+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience

Demonstrated track record of owning the sales life cycle including identifying, developing, negotiating, and closing opportunities across a wide spectrum of customer engagement levels

Demonstrated track record of positioning and selling solutions to new and existing customers and market segments

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years of sales experience selling to Fortune 1000 senior leadership

Experience selling to procurement and/or supply chain roles

Expert use of MS Office Suite, CRMs (e.g. Salesforce.com) and other systems

Experience owning customer facing communication including leading in-person or virtual customer meetings, product demonstrations, or trainings

Demonstrated success identifying, prioritizing, developing, and growing a book of large enterprise strategic customer accounts

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