DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Portfolio Growth Manager (PGM) within the AWS Professional Services Business Development (BD) team, you will play a critical role in supporting strategic, large, and complex customer opportunities. Your primary focus will be to provide Enterprise Transformation (ET) portfolio expertise, enabling customers to operationalize the value of cloud, accelerate business outcomes, and drive AWS adoption.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with go-to-market, pan-Amazon, and AWS services teams, as well as partners, to design and shape Enterprise Transformation solutions for large transformational deals. Leveraging your strong analytical abilities and attention to detail, you will proactively manage the customer portfolio, ET methodology and assets, and identify risks, opportunities, and business trends. Your solid business acumen and excellent communication skills will be essential for leading effective meetings with key stakeholders, driving business and technical discussions towards results. You will be proficient in project management tools, methodologies, and techniques, demonstrating expertise across the project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, budgeting, resourcing, risk management, reporting, quality control, and portfolio closeout. Additionally, you will support go-to-market strategies in partnership with global Sales & Account Management teams, ProServe Practice Managers, Customer Success Managers, territory leaders, and AWS Partners, working cross-functionally with practice teams around the globe, solution architecture, operations, marketing, and customer stakeholders.

The ideal candidate for this role must possess deep global subject matter expertise in end-to-end Enterprise Transformation (ET) methodology, spanning business & finance, cloud op model/ops, and organizational change acceleration/culture/ workforce transformation. You should be able to manage ambiguity, facilitate trade-offs between short- and long-term business needs, and take ownership to drive positive change, leveraging analytical data to improve the quality, productivity, and growth of the ET business development practice. Providing strategic insight across stakeholder teams during monthly business reviews and producing accurate and timely reporting on portfolio status to business and finance partners are also key responsibilities.

The AWS Professional Services Business Development (PSBD) team is focused on helping our customers across all industry segments to think big, plan, design and deliver large scale enterprise transformations that result in measurable business outcomes (revenue growth, efficiency gains, operational optimization, accelerated innovation).


Key job responsibilities
- Lead Enterprise Transformation team in driving portfolio strategy and GTM initiatives.
- Collaborate with internal teams and partners to define and implement cross-team solutions and scalable seller enablement.
- Develop and operate portfolio monitoring and reporting mechanisms to measure success against goals.
- Plan and host value stream mapping events to optimize processes and support program success.
- Gather stakeholder feedback to drive portfolio and program improvements.
- Develop new programs aligned with organizational goals and team's strategic direction.
- Achieve and exceed assigned business development influenced bookings goals, KPIs, and metrics.
- Align services with go-to-market strategies and oversee their implementation.
- Foster strong cross-departmental relationships to ensure alignment of portfolio strategies with overall business objectives.
- Contribute to practice development initiatives, including culture building, internal community involvement, eminence, recruiting, and thought leadership content creation.
- Facilitate constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead resolution of contentious issues.
- Drive adoption of best practices for operational excellence.
- Serve as a thought leader in portfolio approach, proposal responses, win themes, process improvement, and project management.


About the team
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