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Amazon Business is seeking a Business Development Manager to serve as the connective tissue between our Private Equity (PE) firm relationships, portfolio company sponsors, and internal growth teams. This customer-facing role works directly with PE leaders and operating partners, stakeholders at their portfolio companies (portcos) and AB Account Executives across multiple sales organizations to drive activation, adoption, and spend consolidation.
This role partners closely with the PE Account Executives who manage firm-level relationships. While PE AEs build and deepen executive relationships with PE firms, this BDM ensures every portfolio company behind those relationships activates, ramps, and consolidates onto Amazon Business. The scope includes net-new PortCo activation, growing existing customers who are under-utilizing AB, and unlocking spend in new categories. This role also serves as a strategic partner for the PE sponsors themselves. In a market with extended holding periods and pressure on operational value creation, this BDM helps PE firms achieve better procurement outcomes across their portfolios, supporting rapid on-boarding of new acquisitions and delivering the visibility operating partners need to demonstrate value creation.
Key job responsibilities
Cross-Portfolio Coordination & Customer Engagement
- Serve as customer-facing point of contact for PortCo activation and growth across PE sponsor portfolios
- Provide a consistent experience for PE sponsors across their portfolio, coordinating across multiple sales organizations
- Engage existing customers where PE-associated spend is underutilized or new category opportunities exist
- Partner with Account Executives as a PE program expert
- Orchestrate cross-functional support to remove blockers and accelerate time to value
PE Sponsor Engagement & PortCo Onboarding
- Build and maintain structured onboarding playbooks
- Support PE AEs on new firm launches
- Serve as a resource for PE sponsors on procurement value creation, rapid on/offboarding, and category consolidation
- Develop verticalized activation approaches
Program Development & Coordination
- Develop and standardize PE program requirements: reporting templates, training materials, onboarding collateral, success metrics
- Partner with Division Leaders, AEs, and Partner teams on customer-specific action plans
- Drive accountability with partner teams to unlock operational blockers for targeted accounts
- Coordinate referrals to Solutions, CAM, and other growth resources for category expansion and user adoption
- Support a consistent PE experience across customer lifecycle
- Identify portfolio trends and recommend interventions to accelerate ramp velocity
Portfolio Visibility & Reporting
- Produce monthly reports to PE sponsors and internal leadership on portfolio adoption progress
- Deliver portfolio-level visibility PE operating partners can present to investment committees
- Monitor activation velocity, ramp trajectory, and engagement health across the portfolio
- Ensure data accuracy across CRM, internal dashboards, and tracking tools
- Prepare data-driven business reviews with portfolio-level insights for senior leadership
