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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

OEM Sales Specialist

Account ExecutiveConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTexas, USA$146k - $343k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university or bachelor's degree is preferred.
  • Directly related previous work experience is required.
  • Demonstrated success in achieving progressively higher quota is required.
  • Extensive vertical industry knowledge is required.
  • Typically, 5–8 years of advanced sales experience is required.
  • Deep knowledge of the company's products, solutions or service offerings and competitors' offerings, sufficient to sell expansive systems or services and attached products.
  • Understanding of the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and ability to integrate this knowledge into consultative selling.
  • Understanding of the role of information technology within the area of specialization and how the company's solutions address vertical-industry challenges and cross-segment capabilities.
  • Ability to negotiate and drive deals to successful closes and high win rates.
  • Broad understanding of customer needs and ability to apply standard and creative solutions.
  • Client engagement skills to propose expansive systems or service solutions in collaboration with account leads.
  • Leadership and initiative in driving specialty sales in accounts, including prospecting, negotiating, and closing deals.
  • Ability to translate product knowledge into customer business value.
  • Ability to prospect within accounts using specialty knowledge to discover or cultivate sales opportunities.
  • Ability to conceptualize and articulate targeted solutions in a technical specialty from proposal through contract sign-off.
  • Ability to take a deal through the sales cycle, including closing or supporting the close of a deal.
  • Service knowledge and professionalism in researching and sharing service-related information with account teams and customers.
  • Understanding of the channel and ability to develop an effective plan to increase sales with partners.
  • Ability to use Siebel regularly to update deal profiles and forecast accurately.
  • Understanding of services as part of strategic product sales.
  • Prioritization and delegation skills to focus on key client opportunities.
  • Knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner and independent software vendor solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Seek out new opportunities and expand and enhance existing opportunities to build and manage the pipeline in the specialty area.
  • Maintain knowledge of competitors in accounts to position the company's products and services strategically.
  • Develop pursuit plans and manage the pipeline to ensure alignment with account managers.
  • Establish professional, working, and consultative relationships with clients by developing a core understanding of their unique business needs within their industries.
  • Contribute to proposal development, negotiations, and deal closings.
  • Work closely with and support account managers by providing technical expertise and support, and participate in client engagements up to C-level engagements for more complex solutions in smaller accounts.
  • Focus, where applicable, on growing contractual renewals for mid-size accounts with some complexity to higher-total-contract-value renewals.
  • Interface with internal and external industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.
  • Build sales readiness and reduce the client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in the area of specialization.

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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