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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 the value of Amazon Business as we bring digital transformation to procurement for our Startup customers and empower smarter business buying.

Key job responsibilities
• Effective territory planning for engaging with customers and new prospect personas to drive adoption of Amazon Business, drive sales engagements, and hit revenue target

• High activity and strategic prospecting into decision makers within territory to drive discovery meetings and identify selling opportunities

• Balance selling through personas already engaged with Amazon Business with true net-new selling motions with executive decision makers currently not involved in deployment of Amazon Business

• Accurately qualify opportunities through effective discovery, often multi-threading opportunities with separate discovery per decision making persona

• Reliable and consistent pipeline management, including weekly reporting, proper staging of opportunities, updated notes, and sharing of learnings from engagements

• Provide strategic account engagement that helps customers implement solutions that solve industry-specific procurement challenges. Builder mentality helping shape the future of how Amazon Business solves challenges specific to Startup customers in hypergrowth mode.

• Strong executive presence, clear and effective communication (both verbal and written) as you will be primarily working with and reaching out to C-Suite, Owners, and Founders.

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

A day in the life
Mix of existing account and new account maintenance/outreach.
• 2+ customer facing meetings/day to support with any and all account related questions, while uncovering opportunities to grow our partnership through addressing their pain-points.
• Responding to emails and following up on support tickets on behalf of our customers.
• Heavy prospecting (phone, email, social media platforms) with the goal to book meetings to pitch AB as a solution for procurement needs.

About the team
The Amazon Business Startup 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 Hypergrowth/Startup sector. The ideal candidate will have excellent consultative selling skillset and experience, an ability to effectively navigate complex sales cycles, and a proven track record of meeting and exceeding quota and revenue targets. We are looking for an ambitious and strategic Account Executive that will be responsible for prospecting and winning new business. The candidate should display excellence in territory planning, prospecting, discovery and qualification, pipeline management, driving engagements to successful completion, and a history of exceeding sales targets.