Engagement Manager, Gcc Engagement Management Practice

DESCRIPTION

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

As an Engagement Manager, you will collaborate with AWS consultants, partner, and client teams to create and execute a plan to achieve engagement goals that deliver customer outcomes. You will gain knowledge of the customer environment to expedite stakeholder alignment and team cohesion to help deliver customer value. You will lead engagements, aligned to Amazon Leadership Principles and in accordance with the Engagement Manager Role Guidelines.

AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective AWS customer experience, best practices, and obsessing about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product, service, and training teams, to deliver the right solutions and drive feature innovations for our customers across all industries. Engagement Managers help Customers make decisions to meet their technical and business objectives by providing best practices, proactively identifying and closing project gaps.

Key job responsibilities

As a delivery leader, you'll drive business outcomes through matrix team management across multiple workstreams, employing agile/hybrid/waterfall methodologies. Your responsibility encompasses end-to-end project lifecycle management, from outcome validation to successful delivery, aligned with our Delivery framework.

Lead complex, multi-stream delivery engagements

Validate and ensure achievement of customer business outcomes

Manage risks proactively while identifying opportunities for additional value

Coach teams and customers on delivery practices

Partner with sales, support, and engineering teams for comprehensive solution delivery

You will serve as a strategic advisor, helping customers navigate their transformation journey while fostering innovation. This includes:

Providing strategic guidance and risk management

Delivering training on agile methodologies

Enabling partners through framework adoption

Collaborating across AWS teams

Gathering and channeling customer feedback to improve AWS services

The role requires adaptability to handle unexpected challenges and willingness to travel to customer sites and internal events as needed.

Success in this position demands effective leadership skills, agile expertise, and the ability to drive business outcomes while maintaining stakeholder relationships.

About the team

Diverse Experiences

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Work/Life Balance

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 10+ years of IT and/or Management Consulting experience
• Experience working with and presenting to C-level executives, IT, and lines of businesses across organizations or equivalent
• Experience in technical product or program management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2)
• AWS certification
• Knowledge of the value proposition of the public cloud and cloud engagement delivery (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Experience with Agile and project management toolsets like Jira, Rally, VersionOne or Taiga

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