Research Account Manager, UK Education
Pubblicato il 02-10-2026 - Amazon in Milano
Description
Would you like to help the organisations that fund and enable UK science get more from the cloud?
The UK’s central research bodies — UKRI and its Research Councils (EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, NERC, STFC, AHRC, ESRC), the Wellcome Trust, NIHR, the Royal Society, the British Academy, and national research facilities — collectively invest billions of pounds each year in science and innovation. They fund researchers, operate world‑class facilities (from the Diamond Light Source to the Hartree Centre), define data and computing strategies for entire disciplines, and set the policy frameworks that shape how research infrastructure is provisioned across the UK. Increasingly, cloud is central to their plans.
The government has committed £1 billion to expand AI compute capacity 20× by 2030 through the AI Research Resource (AIRR). UKRI’s £129 million Digital Research Infrastructure programme is building a connected national fabric of compute, data, and skills. STFC operates national HPC services, Jisc provides shared digital infrastructure to the sector,
and the Wellcome Trust is investing heavily in open data platforms and Trusted Research Environments. These organisations are not just users of technology — they are the architects of the UK’s research computing future. AWS wants to be their partner of choice.
Amazon Web Services is seeking an Account Manager to own and grow a portfolio of UK central research bodies. You will be the primary commercial relationship owner for your assigned accounts — responsible for driving revenue, building pipeline, and positioning AWS as the infrastructure platform that accelerates national research outcomes. This is not about selling to individual researchers — it’s about engaging the organisations that set strategy, allocate funding, and operate shared services for the entire UK research ecosystem.
The ideal candidate will understand how public‑sector funding bodies and national research organisations operate — their governance st