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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Builds servers, networking and private cloud

Account Executive - Global Majors

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMiami, FL, USA$231k - $543k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Must be located in South Florida and within 1 hour driving distance of Miami, Florida.
  • Have 8 or more years of field account-management experience working with complex accounts and hunting.
  • Be comfortable with up to 50% travel.
  • Have 3 or more years of experience in networking technology sales.
  • Have 3 or more years of experience selling to global major accounts.
  • Have extensive experience selling networking technology.
  • Have a proven ability to manage large, highly complex global accounts and long-term sales cycles that can span 12–24 or more months.
  • Have a strong project-management mindset and the discipline to keep themselves and multiple internal teams aligned, accountable, and moving toward long-term objectives.
  • Have experience working with global customers whose operations and stakeholders span major theaters and regions.
  • Ideally have personally carried and owned a significant, complex sales quota and understand the accountability involved in delivering against it.
  • Be comfortable operating in a highly matrixed environment where multiple sales teams, specialists, leaders, and functions may be engaged with the same global account.
  • Be able to simplify complex business, organizational, and technology issues into a clear strategy and actionable plan.
  • Have written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively across different organizational levels.
  • Be able to connect people, ideas, business priorities, and technology.
  • Be able to motivate partners to sell the company's solutions.
  • Have time-management and presentation skills, and be the go-to expert for the technology or solution being presented.
  • Have strong customer relationship-building and management skills, especially with executives in lines of business and sometimes at board level.
  • Have high-level negotiation skills with customer management.
  • Be adept at advanced sales negotiations and positioning solution value under pricing pressure from customer IT and procurement professionals, including proactively presenting value solutions.
  • Have extensive knowledge of partner organizations and the ability to work closely with multiple partners to engage clients in business solutions.
  • Use financial-selling techniques with clients and internally to position value and advance sales motions.
  • Have expertise in managing end-to-end sales processes in complex, large deals.
  • Have relevant knowledge of the client's industry, keep abreast of trends, and lead discussions with IT on strategic directions and related topics.
  • Have strong knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions and engage specialist resources as needed.
  • Be able to understand customer business issues and translate them into company solutions.
  • Be able to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity for complex, large deals.
  • Have competitive selling skills.
  • Be able to sell across platform and specialty offerings.
  • Have prior selling experience across multiple, diverse selling responsibilities.
  • Be viewed as an expert in the field by the company and customer, and be a mentor in selling strategy, including strategy design.
  • Have a university or bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the overall account lead and single point of contact for several large global major hospitality accounts in South Florida; understand client business and IT challenges and requirements; drive client value while maximizing company revenue and margin.
  • Specialize in selling networking technology, focusing on growing the existing business, complex solutions, and new business opportunities, with primary support from presales resources.
  • Develop account plans and a long-term sales pipeline to increase the company's market share.
  • Focus on larger deals and opportunities, value and/or volume portfolio management, and selling a range of company products and solutions.
  • Work with management to develop future business plans and independently determine methods for achieving them.
  • Spend substantial time working with and leveraging a diverse set of external partners.
  • Build professional relationships with key IT and business executives, including C-level executives.
  • Apply consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that generate ongoing profitable revenue growth.
  • Maintain customer loyalty and build trust and integrity as reflected in company-conducted surveys and reports.
  • Advocate for client needs when negotiating solution sales and troubleshooting delivery issues.
  • Develop a business plan in conjunction with the customer.
  • Analyze client-industry and competitive research and information to facilitate client dialogue.
  • Actively manage accounts to protect and grow company business; coordinate account forecasts, planning, and reporting.
  • Direct and coordinate all activity on assigned accounts.
  • Generate new business and build, monitor, and manage sales-pipeline activity.
  • Achieve and manage quarterly, half-yearly, and annual quota and/or margin.
  • Enter all opportunities in the pipeline tool and update them weekly.
  • Build a list of customers willing to serve as references in person or in print.
  • Implement margin-recovery activities and strategies.
  • Act as a first interface for international accounts in collaboration with global-business and local teams.
  • Identify customer requirements, match them with company capabilities, and select the appropriate company supply chain, either Volume Direct or Indirect.

Desired Qualifications

  • Ideally, have personally carried and owned a significant, complex sales number and understand the accountability involved in delivering against it.

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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