Head of Canada Marketing AWS, NAMER Customer, Industry and Partner Marketing

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a talented and self-directed Head of Marketing, Canada to oversee the Canadian Commercial and Public Sector field marketing team and to help accelerate AWS’ growth. The role will be responsible for in-country marketing activities including new customer acquisition, customer engagement, field marketing, and events. This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in developing an important geography within an exciting, fast-growing business.

The successful candidate is a marketing leader who has experience building and leading teams, earns trust through relationship building and has demonstrated a strong record of delivering results. This role requires the ability to work through ambiguity in a highly matrixed organization, critically think through challenges and be a strategic leader, while ensuring that the details are not missed. The ideal candidate is customer obsessed and thinks holistically about customer challenges and how to best present AWS solutions. They work collaboratively with North American (NAMER) and global marketing teams and leverage customer and business insights from Canadian sales leadership to design marketing initiatives, account-based marketing plans, measure and report out on program effectiveness, and use data to make the right pivots in the strategy and tactics.

Key job responsibilities
Create compelling, results-driven marketing plans that deliver identified objectives to the business
Oversee implementation of the marketing strategy for Canada - including campaigns, events and digital marketing
Organize, assist and implement marketing events
Day-to-day management and development of the Canadian marketing team
Work closely with the Canadian sales team; enabling them to meet their commercial and public sector objectives
Develop and execute customer-driven, locally oriented marketing strategies and programs that will increase customer demand, sales, and positively impact AWS brand equity.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum 15 years of experience in a high-tech, B2B sales-facing marketing role such as corporate or field marketing
Minimum 5 years of enterprise marketing and team leadership experience
Excellent writing and analytical skills
Experience communicating results to senior leadership
Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements
Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree, MBA a plus
Fluency in French preferred
A career trajectory that demonstrates increasing levels of responsibility and proven success delivering measurable marketing results
Account-based marketing expertise
Partner marketing experience (this role will have matrixed responsibility for Partner Marketing)
Understanding of and experience in the cloud and B2B landscape in Canada
Experience working in a large and highly matrixed organization

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