DHS Focused Client Specialist
This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.
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Job Description:
Job Description
HPE is looking for a Focused Client Specialist to manage US Department of Homeland Security.
Seeking an experienced sales executive to join HPE’s growing Federal healthcare segment – the candidate must have deep knowledge of DHS and existing relationships with current Directors and CxOs to fill our Focused Client Specialist role. This is a customer facing sales executive role. Individual will lead the DHS account with support from extended team (SME’s, SA’s, CT’s, compute, HPE, storage and other specialty sales) to drive growth and enhance DHS’s mission via HPE solutions. Qualified candidates will possess an excellent understanding of DHS’s IT and business objectives, priorities, requirements and challenges, and adds value by implementing HPE’s strategy. Accountable for pipeline building; accountable for and supportive in deal closing and orchestrating the deal team. Builds and develops relevant customer relationship networks with key influencers and decision makers in IT and business. Develops and engages with the extended partner ecosystem to maximize HPE’s presence in the account. Constantly develops information technology industry knowledge to position HPE’s portfolio in the account. Orchestrates, engages, guides and provides feedback to the extended account team members. Acts as customer’s advocate inside HPE. Plans for accounts to deliver results through the financial year and beyond.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively builds and executes a plan to drive growth and profitability across HPE's portfolio, in a structured and recurring way. Continuously accelerates growth in HPE's strategic value portfolio through positioning these solutions with an ever-widening network within a customer. Formulates and presents technological choices for the customer that will expand HPE's presence and margin in the account. Actively leverages HPE programs and tools (e.g. Executive Sponsors, BU deal support, and supply chain programs) to improve business performance. Significantly contributes to internal reviews connected to deals and sales planning.
- Knowingly invests in maintaining and developing a professional relationship network within the customer to maximize efficiency and effectiveness for HPE. Understands and leverages the underlying principles for the customer organization's functioning. Builds influential relationships with executives including the C-level when necessary. Proactively defines an effective engagement model with the customer's key influencers and decision makers.
- Actively builds, develops and leads the extended account team. Runs a comprehensive governance with the extended team and empowers the account team to engage on different levels within the account. Establishes a recurring process to provide feedback to the account team members and the relevant managers. Actively works with relevant managers to provide development opportunities for extended team members.
- Fully owns the development and execution of a comprehensive account business plan for defined accounts. Leads the collective effort to build and maintain both strategic and tactical elements of the plan. Shares and aligns the plan with relevant stakeholders of the account.
Qualifications:
Education and Experience -
- At least 5-10+ years account management experience supporting US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Proven track record of account management and sales performance supporting US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Experience in working with Federal Systems Integrators is a must.
- Existing relationship with DHS leadership is a must.
- Experience in hybrid IT, Hyperscalers public cloud offerings as well as HPE’s GreenLake private cloud, IT services, digital transformation, information security, AI and intelligent edge desired.
- University or Bachelor's Degree preferred, or equivalent experience. Engineering or technology education, advanced degree or MBA desired.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Drives Results: Shows strong will to win, is persistent in face of obstacles and has a clear results orientation.
- Strategic Planning: Exceptional at articulating a vision for the future and a path to achieve it in an account business plan, aligned with the HPE strategy, direct leadership, and the HPE business units.
- Sales Execution: Able to efficiently deliver on short term sales engagements and objectives.
- HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates a comprehensive understanding of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings - their value propositions, competitive differentiators, and benefits to our customers and our customers' customers.
- Team Leadership: Highly skilled at leading teams (including dispersed and indirect team members) successfully through sales engagements in a complex matrix organization.
- Influencing and Negotiating: Understands and expertly 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. Demonstrates thorough 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.
- Integrity: Acts with integrity throughout complex situations even if under pressure.
- Vertical/Industry Knowledge Preferred: Understands the customer's industry landscape, enterprise architecture, and partner and influencer ecosystem, and is able to use this knowledge to build and advise the customer on its digital journey plan.
Impact/Scope
- Able to manage accounts with different complexities, representing moderate to high revenue for HPE. Accounts may be a large multi-national or global account.
- Typically qualifies and closes large deals of moderate to high complexity and cross- BU scope.
- Works with all levels of decision-makers in the customer organization, including C-Level.
- Orchestrates regional pursuit resources for the account.
- Participates in account investment decisions about pricing and resources.
Complexity
- Leads highly complex sales engagements, project management and coordination to meet customer deadlines.
- Typically oversees engagements with cross-BU portfolio solutions
This role will be expected to travel up to 50%.
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}
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Job:
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Job Level:
Master
States with Pay Range Requirement
The expected salary/wage range for a U.S.-based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.
USD Annual Salary: $210,500.00 - $495,000.00
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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.
