Account Executive, Public Sector South Africa

As a Public Sector Account Manager, you will drive digital transformation through meaningful engagements with C-level executives, IT leaders, architects, developers, and various lines of businesses of your customers.

In this role, you will represent the entire portfolio of AWS products and services across the strategic accounts you manage within the public sector (national, provincial, local government and healthcare, education industries) customer market segment.

You will be responsible for ensuring all updates related to account activities are done timeously on a weekly basis.

As a AWS Account Manager you will ensure accurate forecasting of opportunities on the CRM and any other sales tools as advised by the business.

• Key job responsibilities
• As a Sales Representative, you will drive digital transformation through meaningful engagements with C-level executives, IT leaders, architects, developers, and various lines of businesses of your customers.

In this role, you will represent the entire portfolio of AWS products and services across the strategic accounts you manage within the Public Sector customer market segment.

You will be responsible for ensuring all updates related to account activities are done timeously on a weekly basis

As a AWS Account Manager you will ensure accurate forecasting of opportunities on the CRM and any other sales tools as advised by the business.

Basic qualifications

• - Experience creating and implementing long-term transformational account strategies in a customer-facing role or equivalent
• - 5+ years of direct field experience selling software or cloud solutions experience

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of Public Sector Sales experience

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