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Hybrid Cloud Solution Sales Specialist. This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Job Responsibility:
Seek out new opportunities at new HPE Greenlake accounts based on existing HPE customers
Build and manage the pipeline in specialty area
Qualify customers whose IT services could be deployed with HPE Hybrid Cloud Solutions and make a consumption plan that are jointly agreed
Become the trusted business partner for HPE enterprise accounts managers and leaders
Maintain knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's products and services
Develop pursuit plans and manage the pipeline to ensure alignment with account managers
Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry
Contribute to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings
Work closely with and support account manager, providing technical expertise and support, and participating in client engagements up to C- level engagements for more complex solutions in smaller accounts
May focus on growing contractual renewals for mid size accounts with some complexity, to higher-total contract-value renewals
Interface with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development
Build sales readiness and reduce client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in area of specialization
Requirements:
University or Bachelor's degree preferred + directly related previous work experience
Demonstrated success in achieving progressively higher quota
Extensive vertical industry knowledge required
Minimum 4 years of sales experience within the IT Sales/Software/SaaS Sales areas
Deep knowledge of selling services by subscription
Preferably from a software or managed services experience
Understanding of competitor's offerings
Understand value selling and create customer outcome based campaigns
Understand the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated
Understand the role of IT within area of specialization
Negotiates and drives deals to ensure successful closes and high win rate
Broad understanding of the customer needs
Use client engagement skills in collaboration with account leads
Leadership and initiative in successfully driving specialty sales in accounts
Translate product knowledge into customer's added business value
Use specialty knowledge to actively prospects within accounts
Ability to take a deal through the sales cycle including closing or supporting the close of a deal
Demonstrate high service knowledge and professionalism
Regular use of forecasting tool by updating deal profile and forecasting accurately
Understand services as part of strategic product & services sales
Good prioritization and delegation skills
Knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions