Sr. Account Executive, Higher Education Sales

Amazon is a rapidly expanding global business focused on innovative purchasing and procurement solutions. They are seeking a Senior Account Executive for Higher Education Sales to engage with customers, drive solution adoption, and collaborate with internal teams to address market needs.

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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of B2B or enterprise sales with a focus on hunting new business experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience 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
• 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 strategic customer accounts