HPE Financial Services SLED Account Manager

HPE Financial Services SLED Account Manager

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

   

Serves as the overall account lead (single point of contact) for SLED (state and local government, K-12 and higher education accounts)  in assigned territory(Western United States); Specializes in growing and maintaining the base SLED lease and finance business while actively hunting and achieving growth with new clients in the assigned territory.  Understands a client’s key business and IT challenges and requirements and is focused on creating and aligning leasing, financing, and asset management solutions to meet customer needs while maximizing revenue and margin for the company.  Will work collaboratively with and build ongoing relationships with HPE and key partners in their territory to source, understand and close customer transactions.  Will work closely with Credit, Operations and Legal to close and oversee the continuing customer relationship.  These jobs focus on selling to customers, typically through work that occurs outside HPE offices.

Responsibilities:

• Builds growth opportunities using the account planning process; actively manages planning process through scheduled reviews and updates.
• Extensive time working with and leveraging external partners to deliver solution sale.
• Significant percentage of time spent directly with customer; interfaces with all levels, including highest within customer organization; highly diverse set of functions and buyers; focus in on management level.
• Develops business plan in conjunction with customer.
• Applies consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that result in ongoing profitable revenue growth for the company.
• Maintains high-level of customer loyalty and builds trust and integrity, as indicated in company conducted surveys and reports.
• Responsible for achieving/managing quarterly, half yearly, annual quota and/or margin.
• Enters all opportunities in pipeline tool and updates them weekly. Recommends and Implements industry leading Pipeline management practices.
• Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies.
• Acts as a first interface for international accounts in collaboration with members of global business teams, and local teams.
• Identifies customer requirements, matches with company capabilities and chooses the respective company supply chain accordingly (Volume Direct or Indirect).

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor's degree.
• Detailed knowledge of key customer types or customers on given products.
• Viewed as expert in company; sought out by other Sales Representatives and/or first level managers for input.
• Typically 6-12 years of experience as referenced above.
• Industry experience required – leasing or public sector sales
• Experience in product specialty (computers, printers, servers, storage).

Preferred:

• Knowledge of state/local government/education market or leasing/financing experience
• Understanding of leasing/accounting pricing and concepts

Knowledge and Skills:

• Has good leadership skills and cross functional expertise.
• Must have good time management skills.
• Broad understanding of the customer's needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs; particularly considering the specific industry/market.
• Ability to coordinate multiple internal and external partners on multiple levels to deliver appropriate solution sale.
• Hi level customer management relationship building, working at management and executive level in lines of business.
• Partner organization intelligence aligned with partner management skills.
• Advanced sales negotiation, and deal closing skills.
• Identifies and effectively leads the account resources to ensure coordinated, efficient, account management, and accountability for achieving business results.
• Expertise in managing end- to-end sales processes in large deals.
• Relevant knowledge of client's industry; keeps abreast of trends and lead discussions with IT on strategic directions and linking discussions.
• Knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions and engages specialist resources as needed.
• Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to the company's solutions.
• Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on a complex solution basis.
• Excels in competitive selling skills.
• Sells across platform and specialty.

Travel Required: 50% or more

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}

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.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied 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.

Job:

Sales

Job Level:

Specialist

    

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: $141,000.00 - $332,000.00

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.