Senior Account Manager - German Defense Public Sector (f/m/d)
This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
In a typical day in this Account Manager position you:
- Focus on an extraordinary set of accounts in the public field of German defence customers as well as German classified accounts.
- Are the central HPE contact for the clients.
- Execute initiatives within the clients to win multi-BU deals for HPE.
- Execute existing server frame contract and win additional frames in the upcoming years.
- Built up executive relations within the account.
- Partner with the HPE defence team, establish senior relations with the defence dedicated partner landscape.
- Hunt new opportunities and extend existing customers to develop a short- and long-term sales pipeline.
- Develop in-depth knowledge of client's business, organization structure and future challenges to define and adapt a solution road map to fulfil this business needs.
- Interface with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.
- Work closely together with sales specialists, presales, support organizations and our business partners to orchestrate deal-specific sales teams and lead to success.
- Maintain knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's solutions better.
If you are…
- Good at partnering, innovating, and making things happen? Good start, you are aligned to our core values!
If you have these Skills, Expertise, Attitude and Education…
- Security Clearance appreciated (SÜ2/SÜ3).
- Academic degree in an economic or technical field of study.
- > 10 years sales experience with a focus on IT solution/services sales ideally with the ability to cover HPE portfolio.
- Experience in public tenders and procurement procedures.
- Profound knowledge of the IT market.
- Strong financial understanding.
- Good mixture between customer relationship management skills and solution content.
- Sales attitude and closing skills - recognize new opportunities, generate new business and close the deal.
- Excellently skilled in collaboration and leading with other sales teams.
- Profound communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
- Excellent German and English language skills.
Join us and make your mark!
This position can only be filled GOM BU internal.
We offer:
- Competitive salary and extensive benefits package (pension scheme, insurances, company car, bike and car leasing, and other fringe benefits)
- Work-life balance (flexible working time and hybrid workplace model, 30 vacation days, four HPE Wellness-Fridays, up to six months paid parental leave)
- Support for education, training, and career development
- Diverse and dynamic work environment
Part-time work or job-sharing is also applicable to this position.
HPE is:
- Ranked in the Top 3 in the Women's Career Index Germany in 2024 for the eleventh time
- Named Gold Champion in Pride Index Germany in 2023
- Ranked 9th on Fortune’s 2023 list of Best Workplaces in Technology
- Ranked 5th on Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2024
- Named a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion for the eighth year in row
- Recognized as one of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women by Seramount in 2023
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Additional Skills:
Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning (Inactive), 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 {+ 6 more}
What We Can Offer You:
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.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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Job:
Sales
Job Level:
Expert
HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to diversity and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global diverse team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: Equal Employment Opportunity.
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What We Do
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, college friends turned business partners, started the original Silicon Valley startup in the space of a rented Palo Alto garage. Starting with audio oscillators, the friends built the foundation for a company that would grow to become a global leader in enterprise technology.
More than 75 years later, our success is exemplified through our employees’ drive to advance ideas that bring meaningful innovations to life for our customers and partners around the globe. We are guided by our mission to help customers use technology to turn ideas into value, and empower them to transform industries, markets and lives. We simplify Hybrid IT, power the Intelligent Edge and provide the expertise to make it all happen.
