Account Manager
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
Job Description:
We are currently looking for Account Manager.
How you will make your mark:
- Develops a connection between the customer's business priorities and the plan to support those with HPE's portfolio, leveraging internal resources and support. Influences the customer's decision makers through describing the value of HPE's solutions and their relevance to the customer's priorities.
- Builds and executes a basic plan to drive growth and profitability, based on an intermediate-level understanding of the differentiation of higher value products and services. Leverages HPE programs and tools (e.g. Executive Sponsors, BU deal support, and supply chain programs) to improve business performance.
- Engages with the customer to identify opportunities. Translates customers' business challenges and goals into IT opportunities. Identifies and develops opportunities for short and mid-term success. Accountable for deal closure. Drives deals to closure through a multi-disciplinary team, including partners.
- Develops and maintains an ad hoc professional network within the customer. Articulates the customer's decision making process and defines a basic engagement model.
- Develops a basic overview of the partner landscape in relation to the account. Works with the HPE Partner Business Managers to assess and update the partner strategy for the account.
- Develops and updates knowledge of information technology and HPE's portfolio. Articulates relevant modern trends in IT.
- Maintains tactical relationships and runs a simple governance with extended account team members. Provides feedback when requested.
- Utilizes HPE tools and processes for intermediate-level customer advocacy.
- Builds and executes basic account business plans for defined accounts, focused on tactical plans within the fiscal year. Shares and aligns the plan with relevant account stakeholders.
About you:
- University or Bachelor's Degree preferred, or equivalent experience. Engineering or technology education is a plus.
- Typically 2-5+ years sales experience.
- Experience in IT industry preferred. Experience working within IT department and/or within customers is a plus.
- Experience in vertical industry preferred.
- Drives Results: Shows strong will to win, is persistent in face of obstacles and has a clear results orientation.
- Strategic Planning: Possesses sales planning skills.
- Sales Execution: Able to deliver on short term sales engagements and objectives.
- Continuous Learning: Continuously and actively pursues own learning.
- IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains knowledge of cutting edge IT industry developments and technology trends with potential impacts to our customers.
- HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates an understanding of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings - their value propositions, competitive differentiators, and benefits to our customers and our customers' customers.
- Team Leadership: Develops expertise in leading teams (including dispersed and indirect team members) through sales engagements.
- Network/Relationship Building: Able to create professional relationships; understands and leverages the value of collaboration.
- Two-way communication: Able to listen actively to understand the perspectives of others, and to articulate value propositions, plans, and proposals in language relevant to the customer, partner or internal stakeholder.
- Influencing and Negotiating: Understands and leverages influencing and negotiation techniques.
- Business Acumen: Understands how different parts of a business interoperate to produce business outcomes and how actions impact company results. Has an understanding of general business concepts and the economy. Able to understand financial reports and make relevant conclusions for planning. Similar principles apply to public sector organizations.
- Operational Excellence: Shows predictability and operational excellence both internally and externally.
- Integrity: Acts with integrity even if under pressure.
Additional Skills:
Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.
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Job:
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Job Level:
Intermediate
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What We Do
In 1939, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, college friends turned business partners, started the original Silicon Valley startup in the space of a rented Palo Alto garage. Starting with audio oscillators, the friends built the foundation for a company that would grow to become a global leader in enterprise technology.
More than 75 years later, our success is exemplified through our employees’ drive to advance ideas that bring meaningful innovations to life for our customers and partners around the globe. We are guided by our mission to help customers use technology to turn ideas into value, and empower them to transform industries, markets and lives. We simplify Hybrid IT, power the Intelligent Edge and provide the expertise to make it all happen.
