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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sales Specialist for Solutions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster. With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

We’re solving the world’s most complex challenges, and our people are at the forefront of progress. In a Sales role at HPE, you’ll play a part in building the future – one big idea at a time. You’ll be selling HPE products, services, software, or solutions to customers, both directly and indirectly. Working at HPE, you’ll have the resources to develop your talent and creativity. Are you ready to unleash your potential?

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HPE Technology Services (TS) guides customers to the New Style of IT by transforming and supporting infrastructure that enables optimal business outcomes. Our vision is to be the undisputed leading provider of Enterprise Technology Services through our constant innovation and customers-for-life mindset. We advise our customers by helping align their IT strategy to business value. We transform their IT landscape and provide a safe journey for our customers on their way to the New Style of IT. We deliver agility and flexibility to our customers, while also ensuring security and stability, reducing risk and delivering unmatched value.

Sales Specialist

  • Develops long term sales pipeline to increase company’s market share in specialized area.
  • Use specialty expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities to build the pipeline in and drive pursuit in specialty area.
  • Provide support to the Account managers. Set direction for business development and solution replication.
  • Creates and grows reference customers
  • Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis. May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts.
  • Services specialists may also be responsible for selling small outsourcing deals.
  • For Services Consultants: Focus on growing contractual renewals for large accounts with more complexity, to higher-total contract-value renewals.
  • Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, including the C-level for mid-to-large accounts by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
  • Maintain and use overall cross-portfolio knowledge to support account leads with integration of solutions.
  • Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish company’s consultative professionalism and promote its total solution capabilities
  • Maintains expertise on IT at all levels – new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO’s, typical objectives, measures, metrics.
  • Maintains broad market and competitor knowledge to ensure credibility with Customer Executives

Scope and Impact

  • Works on a smaller number of accounts of greater strategic (long term) value to the company.
  • Significant percentage of time spent directly with customer interfaces with all levels.
  • Minimal direct time with customer’s technical buyers.
  • Typically assigned higher than average quota.
  • Is considered a master in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor’s offerings to be able to sell large, complex solutions.
  • Know strengths and weaknesses of key competitors in account and how to leverage this knowledge in the account.
  • Uses expertise in specialty, consultative solution selling and business development skills to align the client’s business needs with solution.
  • In-depth knowledge of client’s business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure.
  • Considerable knowledge of the customer’s infrastructure and architecture.
  • Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving services sales in accounts – prospecting, negotiating and closing deals
  • Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving full portfolio including hardware, software and services needed for the customer’s requirements.
  • Strategic planning on a business development level; can build an effective business case reflecting the value of an appropriate strategy.
  • Balance strategic and tactical pursuits to optimize coverage and develop a predictable revenue stream.
  • Uses C-level engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to offer value-add solutions to the client.
  • Excellent project oversight skills.
  • Works with the account team to build an effective account plan and strategy to drive incremental revenue in the account.
  • Utilizes Siebel as an expert and accurately forecasts business.
  • Successful partner engagement experience. Works effectively with our partners to drive additional revenue.
  • Understand and sells high value software solutions.
  • Demonstrates the ability to leverage company’s portfolio of products and services to change the playing field against our competition.
  • Understands the leverage of services as part of strategic portfolio of products. Promotes services as part of all strategic opportunities.
  • Maintain knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Values:

Partnership first: We believe in the power of collaboration – building long term relationships with our customers, our partners and each other

Bias for action: We never sit still – we take advantage of every opportunity

Innovators at heart: We are driven to innovate – creating both practical and breakthrough advancements

What do we offer?

Extensive social benefits, flexible working hours, a competitive salary and shared values, make Hewlett Packard Enterprise one of the world´s most attractive employers. At HPE our goal is to provide equal opportunities, work-life balance, and constantly evolving career opportunities.

If you are looking for challenges in a pleasant and international work environment, then we definitely want to hear from you. Apply now below, or directly via our Careers Portal at www.hpe.com/careers

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Job ID: 0d728f9d2df6f104868ca159caf32af5
Employment Type: Other

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