Sr. customer solutions manager, global healthcare & life sciences industries

Drive transformation for leading Healthcare & Life Sciences organizations while shaping the future of patient care, drug discovery, and clinical innovation through AWS cloud and AI solutions.

Partner with senior leaders at global HCLS enterprises to accelerate their cloud adoption journey, delivering measurable business outcomes and strategic value.

About the Role

Customer Solutions Managers (CSMs) at AWS are obsessed with accelerating customer cloud adoption and driving measurable value from cloud investments. As a CSM in Healthcare & Life Sciences, you'll partner with senior leaders and engineering teams at global organizations to strategize and manage their end-to-end cloud and AI transformation journeys.

We help Healthcare & Life Sciences organizations adopt advanced cloud and AI solutions while migrating existing workloads to the cloud. Together with customers, we shape and execute strategies to build mindshare and broaden the use of AWS offerings across their enterprises.

If you are excited about the prospect of using your cloud architecture experience to assist our most valuable customers, tackling challenging problems, have a hand in shaping the future of cloud adoption, enhancing and growing your own skills, and having fun, then we would love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

You will be a critical partner to our customers, leveraging your experience with large scale cloud transformations and helping shepherd them through their stages of AWS adoption. Guiding the customer through the operational, educational, and governance aspects of a successful AWS cloud journey.

You will interface with customer and AWS leadership, driving collaboration between the other core account groups (Sales, Support, Solutions Architecture, and Professional Services), product/engineering teams, and customer teams, planning and supporting major workload migrations. You will translate strategic initiatives in the account plan into executable actions, working backwards from our customers key milestones. You will manage cadence by leading the reporting and tracking functions along the way. The execution of education plans, roadmap to business outcome alignments, Executive Briefing Sessions, and go-live events and transitions are a few items owned by the CSM that are critical to the success of our customer’s cloud journey.

You are encouraged to think big, invent and take ownership on customer challenges. You will not only bring the best of AWS/Amazon to our customers, you will proactively help solve the customer’s challenges through new ideas, tools and mechanisms.

Successful candidates will have a strong technical background, be aware of details that matter, have excellent problem-solving abilities, and be exemplary communicators both at the executive and project team level. You will be a peer leader, have the ability to gain stakeholder buy-in, negotiate and lead virtual teams. Your enterprise cloud experience and operational excellence will influence the team’s decisions, provide insight, and help drive secure and robust solutions.

You will evangelize AWS services and influence customers for adopting them. You should be passionate about delivering a great customer experience by deploying AWS solutions and driving innovation, and also be obsessed with contributing to the day-to-day management of customers’ successful migration to AWS.

Key job responsibilities

You will establish a deep understanding of your customer’s business vision, culture and processes, and evangelize AWS services and influence customers to adopt the right solution at the right time. Customer Solution Managers (CSM) are responsible for four focus areas:

1. Accelerating AWS Adoption through Delivery and Execution
2. Identify & Align on Strategic Opportunities: CSMs work with the Customer Account team to work backwards from the customer to identify and pursue strategic cloud opportunities. These strategic cloud opportunities can include but are not limited to large-scale migrations, GenAI, data and analytics, digital innovation, high performance computing, product innovation, and business agility.
3. Customer Enablement, you will serve as the customer’s cloud journey coach and be the voice of the customer within AWS, evangelizing customer needs to AWS leadership, product, and engineering teams.
4. Implement governance structures to effectively govern both our partnership with the customer, and the customer’s adoption of AWS.

These interconnected focus areas will enable CSMs to effectively drive cloud adoption, pursue strategic growth opportunities, and empower customer success - all of which are critical to achieving the Automotive & Manufacturing IBU’s objectives. By aligning CSM activities, goals, and opportunities under these focus areas, the Automotive & Manufacturing CSM team can ensure a disciplined, customer-centric approach that maximizes business impact and revenue realization for AWS.

CSMs play a critical role supporting account teams/customers throughout the sales process, and the customer's cloud transformation journey, whilst consistently demonstrating measurable value to the customer regardless of engagement model. CSMs are able to effectively coordinate cross-functional resources, drive disciplined project delivery, and quantify the tangible business benefits that customers realize through their cloud transformation initiatives. This holistic approach to customer engagement, coupled with the CSM's deep understanding of the Automotive & Manufacturing Industry and AWS capabilities; positions CSMs as trusted advisors who can guide customers through every stage of their cloud journey - from initial strategy and planning to migration, modernization, and ongoing optimization.

This position requires 15% - 30% travel across the calendar year to the customer.

Skills & Attributes

• Exceptional ability to lead through influence across diverse stakeholder groups
• Critical thinking and self-motivation with proven ability to navigate ambiguity
• Data-driven decision maker who uses metrics to measure success and drive improvements
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to tailor messaging to different audiences
• Innovative mindset with passion for solving complex customer challenges
• Travel 15-30% as needed, primarily for customer facing events.

About the team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

The HCLS Industries team at AWS is committed to helping customers enable their transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are and work backwards from their industry-specific needs to transform their business and industry. Our team speaks the language of our customers, focusing on business outcomes and industry use cases in everything we do — whether building products and solutions, selling, delivering, or partnering.

At AWS, we value critical thinking, self-motivation, and the ability to deal with ambiguity. We celebrate innovation, encourage data-driven decision making, and create an environment where diverse perspectives drive better outcomes.

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups build a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

The AWS Industries team is committed to helping industry customers enable their digital transformation journeys. Our primary goal is to meet customers where they are in their cloud journey and work backwards from their industry specific needs to transform their business and their entire industry. Our team speaks the language of our industry customers, which means that we focus 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:

• 7+ 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
• 10+ years of experience in customer-facing technology roles (e.g., solutions architecture, customer/field engineering, technical account management, customer success, technology consulting, or enterprise technology strategy)
• 5+ years of experience engaging with senior/executive customer stakeholders (Director+ level), driving business outcomes through technology adoption
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud computing, including architecture patterns, migration strategies, or workload optimization
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience advising C-suite or VP-level executives on cloud strategy, digital transformation, or Gen AI/Agentic strategy
• Familiarity with Generative AI / Agentic AI concepts with the ability to facilitate strategic conversations on GenAI use cases, adoption frameworks, and business impact
• Experience managing a portfolio of complex, high-value workloads across industry verticals
• Technical depth in one or more areas: cloud migrations, application modernization, data & analytics, infrastructure optimization, security & compliance, or AI/ML/Gen AI/Agentic

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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