Commercial Sales Specialist – Storage & Data Services (f/m/d)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; München; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company in Munich is seeking a Commercial Sales Specialist to focus on storage and data services. The role involves developing strong customer relationships and driving the adoption of HPE solutions. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of sales experience and be fluent in German and English. This hybrid position offers flexibility and opportunities for growth.

Leistungen

Health & Wellbeing benefits

Personal & Professional Development programs

Flexible work arrangements

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years of sales experience with complex IT solutions.
• Profound knowledge of the storage and data services market.
• Business fluency in German and English language.

Aufgaben

• Position HPE Storage product & data services for Commercial accounts.
• Develop long-term customer and partner relationships.
• Drive adoption of HPE VM Essentials for optimizing workloads.
• Lead the projects lifecycle including initial contact to contract.

Kenntnisse

Sales excellence in pipeline building

Customer orientation

Excellent communication skills

Ability to engage customer with solutions

Creativity and initiative

Team-oriented work

Ausbildung

Academic degree in business administration

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

Commercial Sales Specialist – Storage & Data Services (f/m/d). This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week 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 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Data Services and the underlying Storage Solution are a key investment area for HPE. Over the past years we have invested significantly into R&D and acquisitions for new technologies enabling a software-driven, cloud-operated portfolio based on modern cloud-native platforms and integrated cloud-enabled Data Services. Our portfolio doesn’t stop in the Data Center but provide hybrid solution that span from Edge-to-Cloud.

Responsibilities

• Position the HPE Storage product, data services and solution portfolio working on selected Commercial accounts in Southern Germany.
• Expand existing and develop new long-term customer and strong channel partner relationships.
• Focus on business outcomes for our customers, gladly with the support of our GreenLake Offerings and our Private Cloud and AI portfolio.
• Identify and engage customers seeking scalable and secure private cloud solutions using HPE Private Cloud Business Edition (PCBE). Position PCBE as the ideal solution for businesses accelerating digital transformation while maintaining control over their data and infrastructure.
• Drive adoption of HPE VM Essentials by showcasing its ability to optimize workloads and simplify virtualization for small and medium-sized businesses. Highlight its cost-effectiveness and seamless integration to enhance system performance and reduce complexity.
• Promote Zerto’s portfolio for data protection and disaster recovery, emphasizing near-zero recovery time and point objectives. Empower customers to safeguard critical workloads and ensure business continuity against unexpected disruptions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the end customer's business drivers to implement customer requirements in sustainable HPE business via a comprehensive consulting approach at all levels of the customer.
• Lead projects over the entire lifecycle from initial contact, PoCs, preparation and response to tenders, negotiations to the conclusion of the contract as a lead, managing contracts over the lifecycle.
• Work closely with Digital Sales and Sales Support teams as well as with Presales, the GreenLake team, Zerto Sales, the Hybrid Solutions Group and the Storage Category.

Qualifications

• Academic degree in business administration or similar
• +5 years of sales experience with complex IT solutions
• Profound knowledge of the storage and data services market
• Ability to take the sales responsibility for storage, data services, PCBE, VME opportunities
• Sales excellence in building a sales pipeline, forecasting and customer management
• Eagerness to develop a deep knowledge of our products and solutions with differentiation from the competition
• Distinctive customer orientation and consulting skills combined with assertiveness and sales attitude
• Team- and goal-oriented work
• Creativity, initiative and reliability
• Excellent communication, presentation, and closing skills
• Business fluency in German and English language

Join us

Join us and make your mark! Part-time work or job-sharing is also applicable to this position.

HPE is committed to inclusion

• Ranked in the Top 3 in the Women\'s Career Index Germany in 2025 for the twelfth time (FKi Hall of Fame member)
• Named Gold Champion in Pride Index Germany in 2023
• Ranked 9th on Fortune’s 2023 list of Best Workplaces in Technology
• Ranked 5th on Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2024
• Named a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion for the eighth year in row
• Recognized as one of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women by Seramount in 2023

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Additional Skills

Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, 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, Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, etc.

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.

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.

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