Storage Sales Manager - SLED

• Leads the sales community to success
• Communicates direction to the team in line with the company’s vision and strategy
• Inspires the team to meet and exceed goals
• Manages the HPE sales motion towards growth and increased profitability
• Creates a high performing team through recruiting, developing, and retaining talent
• Organizes the team and adapts the resource mix to maximize the team’s and HPE’s achievement, market coverage and financial performance
• Coaches to assure best in class individual and team sales performance
• Orchestrates major Enterprise-level customer engagements to deliver results and create the best customer experience in the industry
• Manages escalations to solution, and solution to opportunity
• Drives a hunting mentality
• Engages customer executives to understand the customers’ business context, build trust, and deliver HPE’s value proposition in line with that
• Creates early stage opportunities by managing top customers’ executive level relationships
• Coaches and enables teams to craft the right technical, IT investment and pricing strategies to win
• Partners with stakeholders to maximize cross-HPE team efficiency and customer success
• Helps teams to bust barriers and overcome obstacles
• Establishes sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management
• Manages sales planning, and follows up to ensure consistent execution
• Provides timely and accurate sales forecasts
• Provides customer feedback and won/loss deal analysis into the broader HPE team

• University or Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience
• Typically 10-12+ years experience in sales, including success in achieving progressively higher quota and other sales goals
• 5+ years of experience managing high performing sales teams preferred
• SLED selling experience required
• Experience selling Storage/Data Center required
• Strong preference for candidate to be located in California, but location on the west coast is required

Vertical/Industry Knowledge preferred: Understands industry drivers, trends, best practices, and customer needs

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