This position will be responsible for Sales Operations and Business analysis for the Education and State and Local Government team within the Worldwide Public Sector (WWPS) Sales Operations organization. This will be a pivotal role that enables you to have significant business impact through your direct involvement in monthly and quarterly metrics, modeling, reporting, forecasting, and providing operations support and ensuring data quality.
This position will be responsible for leading formalization of the financial and business reporting for the Education and State and Local Government team within WWPS. The role will include being a strategic partner to the sales team, owning requirements for various dashboards, and reporting and advising on operational metrics and key performance indicators to support the rapid growth of the AWS public sector business.
The WWPS Sales Operations Lead will work in collaboration and coordination with the Education and State and Local Government sales team they support, including account teams, partner teams, service teams, corporate finance and various other functions. The Operations Lead will lead forecast calls, pipeline inspection and operate as a strategic business partner to their aligned Sales Managers. The Sales Operations Lead will provide analytical reporting, performance commentary, look around corners to help inspect and identify trends and risks within the business, dive deep to get to the root cause of a problem, take ownership to resolve and mitigate future problems, help author strategic narratives, and recommend new ways of managing the business that can help accelerate growth.
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