Category Manager

LASER GreenLake Category ManagerThis role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

As a LASER Greenlake Category Manager, you will drive profitable business growth. Ensures end-to-end management of a product category across its lifecycle and ensures improved service-to-segment mapping concerning revenue, gross margin, and service offering. A LASER Category Manager executes the category strategy (across product offering, positioning, placement, and pricing) in the LASER countries.

• Manages NPI/ NSI in LASER, and ensures sales readiness in geography.
• Implement business development initiatives in LASER and drive and lead local key business initiatives to drive order/revenue growth. In case of gaps, WW drives LASER-specific recovery/ acceleration plans.
• Segment mapping and heat mapping
• Drives business opportunities for the offer and implements local activities.
• Evangelizes and promotes the offer within the sales teams and customer/ partner events
• Performs Lifecycle management, cross-sales motion, cross-RTM
• SPOC for LASER sellers for every aspect of the offer
• Solicits feedback from customers/ partners on competitiveness and needs and provides input to the WW category team

Major Tasks

• E2E responsibility for one of the following categories: HPE GreenLake. E2E responsibility means the category manager is the expert for the offer–service content and all processes around them from offer creation to order booking. SPOC for Local Sales;
• Identifies local target customers based on global guidance + geo geo-specific segments;
• Executes the global launch plan;
• Executes global action plan to maximize order volume;
• Yearly and quarterly category growth plan for LASER;
• Identifies and sizes additional opportunities specific to the local market and develops/ executes an initiative plan to optimize business across all RTM and per sales motion;
• Actions could include promotions, bundles, call-out activities, account identification;
• Test new approaches/ new material with some sellers/ customers/ partners before broader rollout and industrialization;
• Represents the portfolio in customer/ partner events and training;
• Communicates the end customer as well as the partner value proposition;
• Supports deal shaping  and secures the customer gets the best service offer pending their use case;
• Drives funnel growth, understands funnel size and shape for their offer and key deals;
• Provides competitive insight and trains sales on how to sell against;
• Executes the sales enablement plan, using the global sales enablement material and sales collateral for end-user sales and channels. Localizes the material as needed;
• Provides training to local sales team based on global material;
• Approve contractual discounts and central procurement requests;
• Supports piloting for new offers;

Education and Experience Required:

• Local language and English (advanced to Bilingual)
• Typically 12+ years to demonstrate mastery of Service Business Management.
• Advanced experience in several of the related disciplines of delivery, solution architecting, or business planning before taking a business management role.

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Services

Job Level:

Master

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