Compute Sales Specialist

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Job Description:


Responsibilities

• Articulate a two-way connection between the customer's core KPIs, business priorities and initiatives, and the plan to support the customer with IT solutions.
• Influence the decision-making of customer executives including the C-level through credibly describing the value of HPE's solutions and their relevance to the customer's priorities.
• Position HPE strategy and solutions in such a way that the customer sees that HPE is critically important to their business in the short, medium, and long term. When appropriate, understand the innovation agenda and digital journey of the customer, and contributes to them.
• Proactively build and execute a plan to drive growth and profitability across HPE's portfolio, in a structured and recurring way.
• Continuously accelerate growth in HPE's strategic value portfolio through positioning these solutions with an ever-widening network within a customer.
• Formulate and present technology choices for the customer that will expand HPE's presence and margin in the account.
• Actively leverage HPE programs and tools (e.g. Executive Sponsors, BU deal support, and supply chain programs) to improve business performance.
• Actively engage with the customer to identify opportunities, starting from the higher levels of the customer organization.
• Translate customers' business challenges and goals into IT opportunities in a compelling way.
• Identify and develop high value opportunities for short, mid, and long term success.
• Drive deals of high complexity and size to closure through managing a multi-disciplinary team, including partners.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive view of the partner landscape in the account - from both IT and vertical industry perspectives.
• Constantly develop and update expertise in IT technology.
• Engage effectively with the customer's CTO/CIO.

Education and Experience

• University or Bachelor's Degree preferred, or equivalent experience. Engineering or technology education, advanced degree or MBA desired.
• Typically 8-12+ years account management experience.
• Fluent in English and native in Italian
• Experience in IT industry. Experience working as an IT leader, within an IT department, and/or working within customers is a plus.
• Experience in vertical industry preferred.
• (Extraordinarily) strong track record of account management and sales performance.
• Experience in different sales roles is a plus.
• Experience in big data, hybrid IT, IT services, digital business, information security, AI and intelligent edge desired.

Knowledge and Skills

• Drives Results: Shows strong will to win, is persistent in face of obstacles and has a clear results orientation.
• Strategic Planning: Exceptional at articulating a vision for the future and a path to achieve it in an account business plan, aligned with the HPE strategy, direct leadership, and the HPE business units.
• Sales Execution: Able to efficiently deliver on short term sales engagements and objectives.
• IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains comprehensive knowledge of cutting edge IT industry developments and technology trends with potential impacts to our customers.
• Team Leadership: Highly skilled at leading teams (including dispersed and indirect team members) successfully through sales engagements in a complex matrix organization.
• Two-way communication: Able to listen actively to understand the perspectives of others, and to articulate value propositions, plans, and proposals in language highly relevant to the customer, partner or internal stakeholder.
• Influencing and Negotiating: Understands and expertly leverages influencing and negotiation techniques.
• Business Acumen: Understands how different parts of a business interoperate to produce business outcomes and how actions impact company results. Demonstrates thorough understanding of general business concepts and the economy. Able to understand financial reports and make relevant conclusions for planning. Similar principles apply to public sector organizations.
• Vertical/Industry Knowledge Preferred: Understands the customer's industry landscape, enterprise architecture, and partner and influencer ecosystem, and is able to use this knowledge to build and advise the customer on its digital journey plan.

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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}
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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