Sales Leader, SASE

HPE Aruba Networking; Winnersh; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a skilled SASE Sales Leader to drive sales strategy and execution in EMEA. The role involves managing a sales team, developing sales tactics, and building lasting customer relationships. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in SASE technologies and a proven track record in sales leadership. This remote position offers opportunities for personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Health & Wellbeing Benefits

Personal & Professional Development Programs

Unconditional Inclusion

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a people leader.
• 15+ years of experience in sales.
• 3+ years of experience specific to SASE/SSE technologies.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for business growth and revenue increases.
• Manages a group of SASE sales professionals.
• Develops sales resources and management talent.

Skills

Strategic Sales Planning

Budget Management

Problem Solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

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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

We are seeking a highly skilled and proficient SASE Sales Leader to lead our growing sales organization in delivering innovative and robust security access service edge (SASE) solutions. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of SASE and/or SSE technologies, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). This individual will play a pivotal role in driving the EMEA sales strategy and execution for our SASE offerings, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and customer needs.

Networking & Executives

Manages a group of SASE sales professionals. Responsible for setting the direction and managing the deliverables of the assigned sales team, and achieving revenue and expense objectives. Resolves customer problems and participates in important negotiations with key customers. Where appropriate, seeks to build strategic executive relationships externally with clients and internally within company, and partners with internal and external resources to develop best-in-class solutions for the customer. Manages the performance of individual contributors and the team overall, and grows and develops talent within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for business growth, company market share and revenue increases.
• Coordinates all company sales activities in the area-of-control.
• Sets quota and goals for organizations.
• Develops tactics to generate new sales.
• Provides input to team on overall sales strategy, cost optimization, and disciplined process management (pipeline review, asset management, demo sales achievement, etc.).
• Ensures optimum sales coverage through direct and partner sales resources and different routes to markets.
• Develops sales resources and management talent to ensure a pipeline of qualified sales talent to support future growth. Implementation of master pipeline management.
• Builds lasting, consultative relationships with customer accounts.
• Proactive change management.
• Coach and support sales teams and leadership in developing key and/or difficult account opportunities
• Builds long-term growth opportunities using the Account Business Planning process.
• Develops the consultative, solution selling capability in their organization to develop compelling business cases to differentiate and highlight the value of the company's broad portfolio.
• Ensures resource deployment encompasses end-to-end selling support (solution partners, SA, ISR, resellers, etc)
• Demonstrates in depth knowledge of the vertical segment and provides external leadership to industry, community, press.
• Engages Global Business Unit Sales Teams (Specialists, Channel Partners, and Alliance Partners) to fully leverage all of the company's products and technology offerings
• Creates and manages resource plan including staffing of country sales team to ensure pursuit and closure of opportunities, and perpetuation the existing installed base revenue.
• Balances short term with long term planning and resource investment
• Demonstrates thought leadership by directing the customer's application of technology to new business problems.
• Creates a performance driven culture that ensures the company has the best IT sales force in the industry.
  
  

Education And Experience Required

• University or Bachelor's degree, advanced university or Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience as a people leader
• Demonstrated experience leading organizations of 50 people or greater
• 15+ years of experience in sales
• 3+ years of experience specific to SASE/SSE technologies
• Extensive experience leading sales organizations in SaaS/subscription selling motions
• Demonstrated results in growing a business or expanding a market.
  
  

Knowledge And Skills

• Strategic Sales Planning & Implementation - Provides input to the development of strategic sales plans that reflect the company's business strategy to advance market share/penetration and achieve profitable growth.
• Budget Management & Cost Optimization - Manages within set spending parameters to protect the company's business and sales assets, and ensures their effective engagement.
• P&L Management - Sets and manages the business investments and resource allocations essential to ensuring the financial growth of business group. Should focus on balance sheet. Optimized operation to improve balance sheet position.
• Vertical Industry Acumen - Develops and exercises a profound understanding of business dynamics within area of control, as a basis for informed business decision making.
• Workforce Planning - Executes acquisition and development strategies targeted to ensuring workforce readiness, and market opportunity responsiveness.
• Execution Management - Collaborates effectively with the company's BUs and value chain partners to ensure operational responsiveness to challenges, and alignment with business imperatives. Acts decisively once decision is taken.
• C-Level Partnering - Contributes to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promotes its total solution capabilities at the highest levels of the client's organization. Acts as the escalation point for customer issues.
• Competitive Positioning/Strategy - Uses competitive intelligence in account planning and sales activities to develop counter strategies that will neutralize competitive influence on the customer's buying decisions.
• Solution Selling - Approaches selling from a business solution perspective to ensure that company products and services accurately address the client's true business need in terms of type, scope, level.
• Business and Financial Acumen - Exhibits authoritative business and financial acumen to develop meaningful business recommendations; Understands the portfolio aspect of the company's products/services and how the businesses work together. Understands the balance sheet drivers of channel partners and balances with company requirements.
• Change Management - Acts as an advocate for innovation and change across the organization.
• Problem Solving - Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.
• Global Presence - Represents the company on global accounts with the cultural sensitivity and business maturity appropriate to the high degree of corporate access and level of responsibility involved.
• Leadership - Able to lead effectively in a complex and political environment, and deliver results; Able to influence without direct authority; Able to balance between competing priorities and be flexible and creative; Able to drive team performance to best in class; Able to create and build highly effective sales teams and organization; Able to communicate effectively across multiple levels in client organizations, the company and the industry.
  
  

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.

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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Job

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Job Level

Director

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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