Communicate direction to the team in line with the BU's vision and strategy and manage the sales motion towards growth and increased profitability.
Create a high performing team through recruiting, developing, and retaining talent.
Coach to assure best in class individual and team sales performance.
Orchestrate major customer engagements to deliver results and create the best customer experience in the industry.
Engage customer and partner executives to understand the customers’ business context, build trust, and deliver HPE’s value proposition.
Create early-stage opportunities by managing top customers’ and partner executive level relationships.
Partner with stakeholders to maximize cross-HPE team efficiency and customer success.
Help the team to bust barriers and overcome obstacles.
Establish sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management.
Manage sales planning and follow up to ensure consistent execution.
Provide timely and accurate sales forecasts and won/loss deal analysis into the broader team.
Requirements
University or Master’s degree preferred
Experience in the Storage & Data Services market including Software and Cloud
+10 years of working experience in an IT sales environment selling products, solutions and services
+5 years’ experience in people management/leadership
Demonstrated excellence in sales, business and people management
High knowledge and connection with channel partners and end customers
Experience in deal project management, business planning, execution and control
Ability to develop, mentor, inspire, and motivate people and create a winning team
Successfully driven transformation of organization and individuals
Dynamic character challenging status quo and fostering a creative mindset
Excellent communication, presentation and closing skills
High level of responsibility and confidence
Business fluency in German and English language
COVID Policy: If applicable to the role, must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the employment start date where permitted by law (exemptions processed according to local laws)
Additional skills include: Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity
Benefits
Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.
Flexible working arrangement: Role designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation to work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office; part-time work or job-sharing is also applicable.
Accessibility & reasonable accommodation: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to qualified, differently abled individuals.
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
IT salesStorage & Data ServicesSoftwareClouddeal project managementbusiness planningsales methodologysales forecastingsales performance analysiscustomer experience strategy
Soft skills
people managementleadershipcommunicationpresentationcoachingcreativitycritical thinkingempathygrowth mindsetbuilding rapport