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Sr. Sales Effectiveness Lead, Amazon Shipping

Amazon.com Inc
  • Austin, TX
    14 days ago

    Job Description

    Amazon Shipping is building a high-growth business designed to transform how companies think about parcel delivery. As our Business Development organization scales, we are raising the bar on how our sellers show up with customers-from initial discovery and executive conversations through complex pricing discussions and negotiations. We are looking for an exceptional Sr. Sales Effectiveness Lead who is obsessed with improving how a large sales organization sells and can translate commercial strategy into measurable improvements in seller behavior and performance.

    In this role, you will own the development of the customer-facing capabilities that differentiate great Business Developers, including discovery, insight-led selling, Framemaking, value articulation, objection handling, pricing, and negotiation. You will embed Challenger principles into how BDs prepare for and lead customer conversations while building world-class negotiation capability that helps sellers frame value, anticipate buyer behavior, manage concessions, and hold price under pressure. You will partner closely with Sales, Pricing, and Finance to translate pricing strategy and commercial economics into practical negotiation strategies and support BDs preparing for complex, high-value customer negotiations.

    This is not a traditional training role. You will stay close to the field-observing customer interactions, listening to calls, inspecting deals and negotiations, analyzing performance data, and working directly with BDs and Sales leaders to diagnose where capability gaps are limiting performance. You will turn those insights into targeted interventions using coaching, deliberate practice, simulations, role-play, manager enablement, and formal learning, continuously measuring whether those mechanisms are changing how BDs sell. Your success will be measured by stronger seller capability, better customer conversations, increased negotiation effectiveness, greater pricing discipline, and improved commercial outcomes.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the sales effectiveness strategy for Amazon Shipping"s Business Development organization, defining and continuously raising the standard for customer-facing selling.
    • Diagnose seller capability gaps using customer-call observation, deal and negotiation inspection, performance data, seller feedback, and direct partnership with Sales leaders.
    • Embed Challenger and Framemaking into how BDs discover customer needs, create differentiated perspectives, articulate value, handle objections, and advance opportunities.
    • Build and lead negotiation capability across the organization, including negotiation strategy, buyer psychology, value defense, anchoring, concession management, and give-get techniques.
    • Partner with Pricing and Finance to translate pricing strategy and commercial economics into practical guidance that helps BDs navigate pricing conversations and protect value.
    • Support complex and high-value customer negotiations by helping BDs prepare negotiation strategies, anticipate customer positions, identify leverage, plan concessions, and respond effectively under pressure.
    • Design and facilitate high-impact sales development through simulations, role-play, deal-based practice, coaching, certifications, and other mechanisms that replicate real customer situations.
    • Equip Sales leaders with practical coaching mechanisms and tools that reinforce effective selling behaviors in the field.
    • Measure effectiveness through observable changes in seller behavior, negotiation outcomes, pricing discipline, sales effectiveness, and commercial performance.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationAustin, TX
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Business Developmentunmatched
    • Business Growthunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Data Analysisunmatched
    • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
    • Direct Salesunmatched
    • Economicsunmatched
    • Field Salesunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • Order Deliveryunmatched
    • Partner Salesunmatched
    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • Pricingunmatched
    • Product Pricingunmatched
    • Psychologyunmatched
    • Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Sales Strategyunmatched

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