Customer Solutions Manager, Retail CPG
Amazon is hiring a Customer Solutions Manager, Retail CPG in Tokyo, Japan. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include AWS, cloud computing and customer solutions.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 21,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
AI in this role
Guide strategic retail and CPG customers through multi-year cloud journeys and business transformation at AWS.
The Customer Solutions Manager (CSM) at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is responsible for guiding a strategic customer through their multi-year cloud journey, ensuring effective collaboration across AWS teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. This role focuses on understanding industry-specific needs and driving digital transformation, orchestrating the operational, educational, and governance aspects of a successful AWS Cloud journey.
In this role you will be a critical partner to the account team, owning the execution layer of the engagement to accelerate the customer's outcomes and multiply the impact of Sales and Solutions Architecture. You will drive the follow-up actions that turn strategy into delivered outcomes: planning and running executive engagements, coordinating cross-functional workstreams, tracking progress, and ensuring the customer consistently realizes value from AWS.
You will interface with customer stakeholders and AWS leadership, driving collaboration between the core account groups (Sales, Solutions Architecture, Support, and Professional Services), product/engineering teams, partners, and customer teams. You will translate strategic initiatives in the account plan into executable actions, working backwards from the customer's key milestones. Executive meetings, roadmap-to-business-outcome alignment, quarterly and monthly business reviews, and enablement programs are a few items owned by the CSM that are critical to the success of the customer's cloud and AI journey.
Successful candidates will have a strong delivery and change-management background, be detail-oriented, have excellent problem-solving abilities, and be exemplary communicators at both the executive and project-team level. You will be a peer leader with the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in. You will evangelize AWS services, be passionate about delivering a great customer experience, and be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of your customer's successful adoption of AWS.
Key job responsibilities
Own executive & customer engagement planning — plan and run executive meetings and customer visits with inputs and direction from the account team.
Own recurring business reviews — put together the monthly/quarterly business review for the customer, gathering inputs from all account and extended team members, and own the meeting itself.
Drive customer maturity & innovation programs — run activities such as Culture of Innovation, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), and Cloud Maturity Model assessments, sustaining momentum through continuous effort.
Run cross-functional cadences & track execution — run weekly workstream meetings that bring in people beyond the account team, and track progress and actions in shared trackers so nothing slips.
Own stakeholder relationships where it adds value — hold specific customer stakeholder relationships (e.g., a platform or line-of-business team), positioning AWS as the right platform and driving the associated initiatives.
Support the customer's AI journey — help plan and shepherd the customer's AI adoption from planning through demos/POCs to production, including driving active usage of relevant AI tools.
Coordinate migrations and enablement as the engagement requires — while large-scale migration ownership (on-prem/other-cloud to AWS) and hands-on enablement delivery are not the primary focus of every engagement, the CSM owns or coordinates these where an account calls for it, including partnering with the AWS Training & Certification team to plan and run enablement.
A day in the life
As a part of the customer focused team your daily routine will swing from tactical tasks like driving team meetings, overseeing in-delivery initiatives to strategic activites like planning and driving business reviews, executive engagements. Through your interactions with the customer you will also open up new engagement avenues through motions like Cloud Adoption Framework, AI maturity assessment, etc. which help the customer accelerate their cloud and AI journey.
About the team
The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers in their cloud journeys and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their businesses and industries. Our team focuses on business outcomes and industry use cases on behalf of our customers, whether that is how we build products and solutions, how we sell, how we deliver, or how we partner.
Basic qualifications
- 5+ years of leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion experience
- 2+ years of customer-facing work, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies experience
- Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, math, business or equivalent
- Experience in a direct or matrixed role leading technical and non-technical transformation project teams with a proven ability to work across broad functional teams
Preferred qualifications
- PMP certification, or SCRUM/Agile, SAFe certification
- cloud certification like AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Solutions Architect - Associate
- Experience implementing cloud services including migrations and modernization projects or similar
- Experience in retail / CPG or a comparable industry, and comfort operating in a multicultural, cross-geography account team
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
null
How we rate this
Customer Solutions Manager, Retail CPG at Amazon rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
Prepare for this job
Built from this posting and from similar jobs on Level.
Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where cloud computing was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where customer solutions was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where change management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where cross functional coordination was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where stakeholder management was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Cloud Computing, Customer Solutions, Change Management, Cross Functional Coordination, and Stakeholder Management. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Want an expert to read your CV for this job?
Free. Send your CV and the role you want next. We reply by email within 2 to 4 business days.
Get new AI jobs by email
One email a week with the new AI jobs, each rated for how much AI is in the work. No recruiter spam, unsubscribe in one click.
Free. One email a week. Unsubscribe in one click.
Similar roles
Other roles that involve little AI, at other companies.
What kind of AI work fits you?
Answer 12 practical questions in about three minutes. Get a simple profile, the work it points to, and live roles to explore next.
Find my next step