Business Development Manager - Global & Major Accounts, Nordics Networking

Business Development Manager – Global & Major Accounts, Nordics HPE NetworkingThis 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:

A senior, strategic sales role focused on accelerating growth across the largest global and major accounts in the Nordics. The role combines expansion within existing customers with targeted new-logo acquisition, helping HPE Networking become a strategic partner in customers’ long-term transformation.

As part of the North-Western Europe Global & Major Accounts organization, you will turn account insight into qualified opportunities, competitive wins, and sustainable revenue growth.

About the role

You will work closely with Global Account Managers, country leaders, and regional sales teams to identify, shape, and win complex, high-value networking opportunities across the Nordics.

The mission is clear: grow our installed base, win new large customers, and strengthen strategic account engagement. You will connect customer business priorities with HPE Networking’s portfolio, including AI-driven operations and self-driving networks, building compelling business cases and engaging executive decision-makers.

This role requires hands-on ownership of strategic pursuits while reinforcing the Global Account Manager’s overall account leadership.

What you’ll do

• Accelerate installed-base growth: Identify opportunities to expand HPE Networking’s footprint across customer sites, countries, business units, and solution areas.
• Win new large customers: Develop and execute targeted entry strategies for priority accounts, creating a clear path from initial engagement to first win and broader adoption.
• Own strategic pursuits: Lead agreed opportunities from qualification through to close, with clear accountability for milestones, resources, and outcomes.
• Strengthen account strategy: Partner with Global Account Managers to translate Account Business Plans into actionable growth initiatives and Strategic Opportunity Plans.
• Build executive engagement: Develop trusted relationships with senior business and technology leaders, connecting networking investments to measurable business outcomes.
• Differentiate through customer value: Position HPE Networking’s AI-driven and self-driving network strategy around operational efficiency, resilience, security, and user experience.
• Mobilize the wider organization: Bring together technical specialists, services teams, industry experts, partners, and Global System Integrators to build and execute winning propositions.
• Connect Nordic opportunities with global potential: Coordinate with international account teams to support multinational decisions and scale local wins across customer operations.
• Maintain commercial discipline: Build qualified pipeline, validate customer decision processes, maintain credible forecasts, and drive clear next steps.
• Scale successful approaches: Share customer insights, competitive intelligence, and repeatable winning practices across the NWE Global & Major Accounts team.

What you bring

• Significant experience, typically 8+ years in enterprise or strategic technology sales, with a strong record of delivering growth.
• Proven success in both expanding existing strategic accounts and winning new large customers.
• Experience leading complex, high-value pursuits within multinational organizations and navigating multiple stakeholders and decision-making structures.
• Strong executive presence, commercial judgment, and the ability to build compelling, outcome-based business cases.
• Experience developing account strategies, competitive positioning, and structured opportunity plans.
• The ability to lead through influence across account teams, countries, technical functions, and partner organizations.
• A proactive, accountable approach: you create opportunities, take ownership, and turn strategy into execution.
• Understanding of enterprise networking and its role in digital transformation; experience with AI-driven networking, cloud, or security is an advantage.
• Based in the Nordics, with professional fluency in English and the local language, with willingness to travel across the region and internationally as required.

Scope and impact

• Responsibility for agreed global and major accounts and strategic prospects across the Nordic region.
• Cross-industry scope, with a focus on complex customers offering significant growth potential.
• Senior, quota-carrying position within the NWE Global & Major Accounts organization.
• Success measured through revenue growth, qualified pipeline creation, new-logo wins, and expansion of HPE Networking’s share of wallet.
• Direct contribution to building repeatable growth across installed-base expansion and new-customer acquisition.

Reporting line: Reports directly to the Global & Major Accounts Leader for North-Western Europe, working as part of an international team in close partnership with Nordic country leadership and Global Account Managers.

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