Business Development Representative

Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Experience navigating prospective accounts from and into a senior executive level to identify new customer opportunities
- Fluent in English and Dutch or Swedish or Danish (or another Nordics Language)

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for growing revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small
Would you like to be part of a team focused on helping increase the adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) across EMEA in the Start-up Segment? If you are passionate about cloud technologies, AWS is developing the next generation of cloud leaders. AWS offers an innovative and motivating environment where you will have the exciting opportunity to advance in your career, help drive the growth of AWS customers, and help shape the future of an emerging cloud technology.
As a Business Development Representative (BDR) who speaks either Dutch, Swedish or Danish you will play a supporting role as trusted advisor helping prospects and customers adopt AWS services by understanding their business needs, explaining AWS unique value proposition and match the right service that will benefit them.
Startups, which are now primarily born-in-the-cloud, represent a critically important and growing subset of customers to AWS. Startups have unique needs, priorities, and growth trajectories that distinguish them from traditional businesses and require different engagement strategies and sales motions from sellers to effectively acquire, grow, and retain them long-term on the AWS platform.
Key job responsibilities
Your primary responsibilities will be to follow-up with prospects and customers that showed an interest in AWS services in a timely manner, identify and qualify leads and operate as a pipeline generator contributing to AWS salesforce. You will liaise with customers, across all levels and departments (including the C-level) to help enable customer success and support adoption of AWS services.
A day in the life
About the team
You will work at the Demand Generation team at EMEA level, closely with the greater account management teams and the AWS partner ecosystem in further helping develop and meeting customer needs. You will receive hands-on education, training, and mentorship that will enable you to grow, learn, and be successful.
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- Experience using Salesforce
- Self-starter with highly developed interpersonal skills, decisive, and results oriented with excellent written and verbal communication skills