Strategic Planning Manager, SMGS Ops - WWPS Biz Strategy & Ops

Amazon - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

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About the position

The Strategic Planning Manager for AWS will play a crucial role in developing business insights and strategies to support the growth of the World Wide Public Sector Org sales organization. This position involves analyzing various business areas, making recommendations to senior leadership, and tracking the implementation of these strategies. The role emphasizes collaboration across teams, effective communication, and the automation of reporting processes to enhance performance management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as liaison between Sales, Operations, and Planning teams to identify focus areas, improve visibility into sales pipeline, and drive actions plan
• Establish timelines, project plans, and expectations across various stakeholders
• Manage deliverables for leadership reviews, annual planning, and regular performance updates
• Automate and streamline reporting and performance updates through regular cadence of communications and/or interlocks with business and goal owners
• Communicate in written and verbal form to senior leadership and also technical counterparts
• Lead analytical projects focused on deep insights that enable goal and performance management decisions
• Capture and structure data to meet reporting needs across the entire organization
• Be the 'source of truth' for each team's performance and progress tracking

Requirements

• Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data
• 5+ years of Microsoft Excel experience
• Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software
• Experience defining, refining and implementing sales processes, procedures and policies or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working within a high-growth, technology company
• Experience with data visualization software (e.g., AWS QuickSight or Tableau) or open-source project

Benefits

• Flexibility in working hours
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities
• Supportive team environment
• Work-life balance emphasis