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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

Northern Western Europe Digital Presales Leader

Pre-Sales Solution EngineeringUpdated on Nov 9
Full-timeBarcelona, SpainNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Proven presales experience with credibility in compute and storage solutions.
  • Ability to build and motivate high-performing teams.
  • Business and financial acumen, including pipeline, total cost of ownership and return on investment, value selling, and comfort in C-suite conversations.
  • Ability to translate complex technical choices into clear recommendations for senior customer and partner stakeholders.
  • Strong communication, multi-country matrix experience, critical thinking, cross-functional collaboration, analytical capability, and strategic planning capability.
  • English is required; local languages are an advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a presales team, combining strategic vision with hands-on expertise to guide customers toward appropriate outcomes and help individuals and the team succeed.
  • Drive structured funnel reviews, coaching team members to expand offerings in strategic deals, strengthen value propositions, and support risk-mitigation strategies.
  • Engage with DSRs and the presales team proactively on strategic CQ and CQ+1 deals to improve win rates, deal sizes, pipeline progression, and HPE's footprint.
  • Establish a systematic conversion-improvement process through competitive analysis, loss reviews, and rapid enablement programs, improving competitive performance and the feedback loop to business units and geographies.
  • Expand pipeline generation through joint account planning with sales, business unit teams, and channel partners; develop the team's ability to uncover cross-sell opportunities, build relationships with strategic customers, and articulate HPE strategy and as-a-service value.
  • Leverage the TEC Center and participate in sales-program pipeline-generation strategy.
  • Guide complex compute and storage deal strategy with the team, sales, and partners, including discovery, RFP/RFI responses, architecture and configuration validation, proofs of concept, and executive-level total-cost-of-ownership and return-on-investment value propositions.
  • Track industry trends and competitor offerings and translate them into customer-relevant positioning.
  • Build team capability and certifications in compute, storage, artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud, and as-a-service models.
  • Hire and onboard talent; monitor team performance using metrics and regular feedback to drive accountability and customer satisfaction.
  • Build an NWE presales career framework and keep the team upskilled on strategic offerings and market events; support individual development plans based on skill assessments, technical certifications, mentors, and buddy assignments.
  • Accelerate DSR ramp-up time and productivity by scaling enablement and deliverables through reusable qualification guides, discovery frameworks, competitive positioning, value-selling assets, and playbooks.
  • Create a consistent NWE presales community through structured best-practice sharing and common ways of working; foster recognition and continuous improvement.
  • Improve reporting rigor and visibility of presales business impact, resource utilization, coverage gaps, and cost-of-sales optimization opportunities; share team-member successes.
  • Set technical governance and best practices, and standardize presales processes across NWE to improve productivity and shorten sales cycles.
  • Replicate successful engagement models demonstrated in France and the Netherlands to unlock growth opportunities across other countries.

Desired Qualifications

  • Local languages are a plus.

About the Company

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

Hewlett Packard Enterprise sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud software to large companies, governments and service providers. Its GreenLake platform lets customers run on-premises hardware as a metered cloud service, and its Cray supercomputers run national lab and AI training workloads. The networking business, built on Aruba and Juniper Networks, supplies campus, data-center and routing equipment. Revenue comes from hardware sales, multiyear support contracts, financing and subscriptions. The company traces its roots to Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939, became a separate public company in 2015 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1939

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