Sr. Professional Services Account Executive, AWS Professional Services Healthcare and Life Sciences - Zurich | Amazon Job

Job Description

We're seeking a dynamic Professional Services (ProServe) Account Executive (PAE) to join our Healthcare and Life Sciences team at AWS Professional Services. In this role, you'll have end-to-end responsibility for cultivating relationships with strategic HCLS accounts across EMEA.

What You'll Do
You'll collaborate with executive customers to shape technology transformation programs, including AI/Gen AI/Agentic AI transformation, IT modernization, and cloud migration. Success means earning trust with VP-level and senior customers across Digital, IT, AI, and key business functions within EMEA-based HCLS organizations, then working backwards from their objectives to design ambitious programs and solutions.
You'll orchestrate a diverse ecosystem of partners to deliver exceptional outcomes:
- ProServe Cloud Architects
- AWS Specialists (including the Forward Deployed Engineering team)
- Amazon Partner Network Partners
- ProServe Delivery teams
Your success will be measured through revenue, billable bookings, team engagement, and customer satisfaction (NPS, CSAT).

What We're Looking For
We're seeking professionals who can translate technical concepts into business value for HCLS customers. You'll thrive here if you bring depth in business development and sales methodologies, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to think big while executing at a high standard. Continuous curiosity and an obsession with customer objectives are essential to success in this role.

The Impact You'll Make
This is your opportunity to shape how technology drives business transformation and patient impact across healthcare and life sciences in EMEA. You'll be at the forefront of helping our strategic EMEA customers achieve their most ambitious goals.


Key job responsibilities
- Developing and executing strategic account plans with AWS Industries sales colleagues in EMEA, aligned to the ProServe HCLS strategy
- Leading business development end-to-end for accounts in scope by cultivating customer relationships and shaping and advancing opportunities from origination through proposals, contracting and delivery launch
- Innovating how ProServe delivers high value for customers, through novel arrangement models and/or programmatic designs
- Sharing evolving customer insights and needs back with relevant AWS teams to inform our solution and service and ProServe priorities
- Monitoring active projects to ensure that ProServe delivers on agreed customer business outcomes (CBOs)


About the team
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Basic Qualifications:

- Experience with AWS, Azure, Google, or general Cloud technologies
- Bachelor's degree (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, Business Administration) or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in technology sales or account management, large cloud, IT modernization and data solutions and programs
- 3+ years of Healthcare and Life Sciences experience in Pharma, Medtech and/or Payer segments, preferably within EMEA
- Experience with sales targets, sales methodologies and CRM systems
- Experience in a consulting, advisory, or professional services environment, with the ability to structure and communicate solutions to complex customer challenges

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience leading or shaping technology transformation programs (e.g., cloud migration, data platform modernization, AI/ML adoption) preferably within Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations, with a knack for aligning transformation outcomes to measurable business value
- Experience with communication, presentation, and negotiation
- Experience building the commercial business case for transformation by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits), or experience applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses
- Knowledge of AWS services
- Experience with VP-level and senior executive sales and partnership building
- Experience developing and closing deals and innovating commercial arrangements

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