Partnerships and Strategic Business Development Lead, AWS Power & Utilities Partnerships & Business Development
Job ID: 10584151 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)
Own the partnerships redefining how Europe's largest energy companies run on cloud and agentic AI. Structure the landmark deals, bring the full force of Amazon, and put AWS at the center of the energy transition.
About the role
Global energy demand will rise sharply over the coming decades, and the power and utilities sector is racing to modernize the grid, decarbonize, electrify transport, and meet power demand not seen in generations. AWS is investing billions in generation and delivery to power sustainable data center growth and is reinventing energy workflows with AI and the cloud. We are seeking a Principal Business Development leader to own AWS's EMEA energy partnerships at the intersection of technology, AI, infrastructure, and delivering mutual business value through partnerships.
You will own the EMEA partnership portfolio end-to-end with the region's largest and most strategically significant P&U relationships carrying multi-year portfolio responsibility rather than a single account. You will drive the regional go-to-market motion, build and launch pipeline, lead strategic planning and the development of cloud and AI strategic agreements, and integrate the commercial relationships of EMEA companies that supply infrastructure inputs to Amazon into a single, 360-degree relationship while collaborating on solution development, partner engagement, and field enablement.
This is a Principal-level individual-contributor role with no direct reports working on high complexity, high ambiguity, challenges leveraging senior level relationships. You will Think Big where there is no playbook, structuring first-of-their-kind agreements and novel commercial models in markets where AWS's position is still forming and make high-judgment calls with incomplete information (Are Right, A Lot). You will Earn Trust as the advisor of choice to energy-industry CxOs, close the region's largest multi-party agreements, and act as a force multiplier who raises the bar across the BD team through mentorship, reusable playbooks, and visible thought leadership (Hire and Develop the Best, Invent and Simplify).
- Own and execute the EMEA go-to-market partnership plan across generation, transmission, distribution, and energy trading, including solution prioritization, repeatable pipeline generation, competitive positioning, and scalable partner co-sell motions (ISVs, SIs, OEMs, utilities).
- Structure and close the region's largest strategic agreements encompassing a confluence of commitments to technology, infrastructure, and AI with major EMEA energy customers.
- Serve as strategic advisor to customer executives (CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, VP), building trusted relationships that span infrastructure partnerships and enterprise cloud and AI adoption.
- Act as the managed gateway between EMEA account teams and AWS Infrastructure and power-procurement teams, coordinating and elevating commercial power discussions.
- Orchestrate a pan-Amazon network (Retail, Prime, Transportation, Fulfillment, Data Center Infrastructure, Amazon Business, Sustainability) into EMEA engagements as inputs to strategic agreement value propositions.
- Partner with sales and technical teams to design, test, and scale go-to-market sales plays, proven in key accounts and then scaled across thousands through the field and partners.
- Maintain the EMEA named-account and white-space map, and hand qualified opportunities to Sales with clear business driver, stakeholders, and urgency.
- Mentor and uplevel BD peers and field teams, codifying wins into reusable playbooks (a natural fit with the Technical Field Community and the co-developed sales-play model).
Basic Qualifications
- - Bachelor's degree in engineering, statistics or business, or a MBA and experience working in large teams or at a national/multinational organization
- - Experience working with Business Application Technologies, including, but not limited to End User Compute (EUC), Supply Chain, Contact Center as a Service, Consumer Data Applications, Encrypted Communications, and/or Communication Developer Services
- - Proven ability to engage and communicate with multiple stakeholders, C-level executives, and cross-functional teams, with strong strategic thinking across business, enterprise software products, emerging technology platforms, and architectures.
- - Experience with Core Cloud Technologies, including Compute, Edge, Hybrid, Security, Networking, Advanced Compute (Accelerated, High Performance, Visual/Spatial Compute, IoT), and Enterprise Application Modernization and Migration (Mainframe, Serverless, Containers, Cloud Operations).
- - Experience with Data and AI technologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Databases, and Storage.
- - Experience solving technology challenges across Healthcare & Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Global Financial Services, Telecommunications, Automotive & Manufacturing, and Energy & Utilities, along with experience in Go-to-Market (GTM), Business Development, Sales, or Consulting.
Preferred Qualifications
- - Experience managing and developing high performance teams
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