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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Storage Sales Specialist

Storage Sales Specialist

Job Description:

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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Enterprise Group works to streamline innovation and simplify IT with superior solutions. By combining ESSN (Enterprise Server, Storage and Networking) and Technology Services into one division, we gain a strategic advantage in our focus on "Converged Infrastructure". The HPE Enterprise Group supports our customers with the transformation and integration of their technology. We are there for our customers – come join us!

Storage Sales Specialist

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.

Responsibilities:

  • Seek out new opportunities and expands and enhances existing opportunities to build and manage the pipeline in specialty area.
  • Maintains knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's products and services better.
  • 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.
  • Contributes to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings.
  • Work closely with and supports 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.

Education and Experience Required:

  • University or Bachelor's degree preferred.Directly related previous work experience.
  • Demonstrated success in achieving progressively higher quota.
  • Extensive vertical industry knowledge required.
  • Typically 5-8 years advanced sales experience required.

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Deep knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings, to be able to sell expansive systems or services and attached products.
  • Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and integrates this knowledge into consultative selling.
  • Understands the role of IT within area of specialization and how the company's solutions differentially address specific vertical industry challenges as well as their cross-segment capabilities.
  • Negotiates and drives deals to ensure successful closes and high win rate.
  • Broad understanding of the customer needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs.
  • Uses client engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to propose expansive systems or service solutions to client.
  • Leadership and initiative in successfully driving specialty sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.
  • Translate product knowledge into customer's added business value.
  • Uses specialty knowledge to actively prospects within accounts to discover or cultivate sales opportunities.
  • Conceptualizes and articulates well-targeted solutions in area of technical specialty -- from proposal to contract sign-off
  • Ability to take a deal through the sales cycle including closing or supporting the close of a deal.
  • Demonstrates high service knowledge and professionalism in researching and sharing service- related information with account teams and customers.
  • Understand the channel and work an effective plan to increase sales with our partners.

Regular use of Siebel updating deal profile and forecasting

Job:

Sales

Job Level:

Specialist

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO F/M/Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to the use of arrest and conviction records, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and similar laws and will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Job ID: c452bea59ccec946539e561043784bce
Employment Type: Other

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