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Sales Specialists & Consultants are product, services, software or solution specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned focus areas. Collaborates with and supports Account Managers and provides specialist expertise within the sales team. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. May have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography, or may be allocated to one high-potential, competitive attack account.
Job Responsibility:
Responsible for sales of storage products and solutions in assigned territory, industry or accounts
Uses advanced storage expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value
Creates and drives the storage sales pipeline
Captures leads outside of specialization
Collaborates with account pursuit teams for business development
Build sales readiness and reduces client learning curve
Contributes to development of quota objectives
Directs and coordinates supporting sales activities
Effectively uses internal sales tools
Collaborates across HPE teams to deliver consistent approach
Assesses solution feasibility
Negotiates and drives profitable deals
Drives sales of the storage portfolio
Establishes professional and consultative relationship with client
Leverages advanced knowledge of competitors and industry trends
Focuses on and works with the channel
Effectively leads and evangelizes Storage marketing campaigns
Acts as trusted storage solutions consultant
Reinforces and articulates HPE's strategy and portfolio
Effectively uses references
Actively generates customer interest
Cultivates and maintains positive relationships
Supports deal closure
Requirements:
University or Bachelor's degree preferred
Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, interface with diverse business customers at all levels
Typically 6-10+ years of sales experience
Experience in storage sales, typically 2-3+ years
Extensive vertical industry knowledge required
Project management experience required
Expertise to assess solution feasibility from a technical and business perspective
Hunter mentality to actively pursue solution opportunities
Ability to independently articulate the technical solution and commercial benefits
Knowledge of digital and modern sales methods
Expert knowledge of storage, cloud, solution or service offerings
Understands role of IT within storage
Understands industry and market segments
Deep expertise of end to end data solutions leveraging HPE storage portfolio
Understands how to engage different types of partners
Expertise in mapping partner skills to storage opportunities
Deep understanding of business models of service providers
Persuades and negotiates with others
Motivates, coaches and supports peer sales team members
Demonstrates courage to take calculated risks
Possesses advanced financial acumen
Maintains expertise on IT at all levels
Understands and applies program/project management methods