Storage Specialist - WW Ecosystem Sales
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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:
Global Sales at HPE is about building the future. We are redefining what’s next and combining our legacy of innovation with a bold new goal to accelerate everything we do. Our sales organization is comprised of 10,000+ professionals in sales, presales, service, and support functions. Together with our partners, we deliver global, commercial, public sector & small/medium business customers throughout 11 geographies. We’re transforming businesses. Join us redefine what’s next for you.
Job Family Definition:
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.
We are looking for a Storage Specialist for our Ecosystem Partner Team. Systems Integrators and the underlying Storage Solution are a key investment area for HPE. Over the past years we have invested significantly into R&D and acquisitions for new technologies enabling a software-driven, cloud- operated portfolio based on modern cloud-native platforms and integrated cloud-enabled. Our portfolio doesn’t stop in the Data Center but provide hybrid solution that span from Edge-to-Cloud.
What you’ll do:
Responsibilities:
• Daily engagement with existing and new Ecosystem Partners on your own but often in close collaboration with HPE’s Ecosystem partner leads and supported by technical solution architects
• Responsible for sales of storage products and solutions in assigned territory, industry or accounts.
• Seeks out new opportunities by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities.
• Develops pursuit plans and builds and manages the storage sales pipeline.
• Works closely with and supports the Partner Sales Manager, providing technical expertise and support.
• Directs and coordinates supporting sales activities related to pipeline hygiene through account managers, Presales, Ecosystem partners and other relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborates across the HPE teams to deliver a consistent approach to developing business, including account planning for end-to-end solutions
• Drives sales of the Storage portfolio, using strong leadership and initiative to successfully prospect, negotiate and close deals.
• Focuses on and works with the Ecosystem Partners to forge relationships, provide enablement of key technologies, and co-sell to end-users.
• Reinforces and articulates HPE's strategy and portfolio to partners and champions to uncover new business opportunities and contacts, including new logos when appropriate.
What you need to bring:
Education and Experience:
- 10+ years of experience with a strong knowledge of storage, cloud, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings is an advantage.
- 5+ years of sales experience
- Experience working with system integrators
- Global system integration or partners
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:
Master
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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.
