Sales Specialists & Consultant - PCAI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking a Sales Specialist & Consultant for PCAI, a hybrid role requiring about 2 days per week at an HPE office in India. The role focuses on selling technology and services, developing a long-term sales pipeline, and engaging with clients at the C-level to expand strategic opportunities.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred) with 10+ years in sales, strong project management, and a track record of delivering complex solutions and

Qualifications

• Directly related previous work experience.
• Typically 10+ years of related sales experience.
• Project management skills required.
• Knowledge of products, solutions or service offerings and competitors' offerings.
• Ability to engage with C-level executives and key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develops long term sales pipeline to increase market share in specialized area.
• Provide support to the Account managers.
• Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis.
• May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts.
• Focus on growing contractual renewals for large accounts with more complexity.

Skills

Consultative selling

C-level engagement

Strategic planning

Account management

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Job description

Sales Specialists & Consultant - PCAI

Hybrid role with a requirement 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:

Global Sales at HPE is about building the future. We are redefining what’s next and combining our legacy of innovation with a bold new goal to accelerate everything we do. Our sales organization is comprised of 10,000+ professionals in sales, presales, service, and support functions. Together with our partners, we deliver global, commercial, public sector & small/medium business customers throughout 11 geographies. We’re transforming businesses. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

The Services Sales Consultant is responsible for selling technology, services and/or technology management services (TMS) to end-user customers (and/or partners) in an assigned geographic territory or industry focusing on new business or up-selling within an account. The position requires a solid understanding of the services value proposition and how customers assign services contracts. Knowledge of marketing campaigns to align initiatives with account planning activities is also required. The Services Consultant develops consultative customer proposals, tailoring strategy and solutions to meet the needs of the customer. They understand the customer’s business challenges /objectives to provide value added services and solutions. In some instances these specialists may also be responsible for outsourcing deals.

What you’ll do:

Develops long term sales pipeline to increase the company's market share in specialized area. Use specialty expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities to build the pipeline in and drive pursuit in specialty area. Provide support to the Account managers. Set direction for business development and solution replication. Creates and grows reference customers. Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis. May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts. Services specialists may also be responsible for selling small outsourcing deals.

For Services Consultants: Focus on growing contractual renewals for large accounts with more complexity, to higher total contract-value renewals. Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, including the C- level for mid-to-large accounts by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry. Maintain and use overall cross-portfolio knowledge to support account leads with integration of solutions. Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promote its total solution capabilities. Maintains expertise on IT at all levels - new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO's, typical objectives, measures, metrics. Maintains broad market and competitor knowledge to ensure credibility with Customer Executives.

What you need to bring:

University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced University or MBA preferred. Directly related previous work experience. Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota diversity of business customer, and higher level customer interface. Prior selling experience includes multiple, diverse set of selling responsibilities. Viewed as expert in given field by company and customer. Considered a mentor of selling strategy, including designing strategy. Typically 10+ years of related sales experience. Project management skills required. 3-5 years' experience. Knowledge and Skills: Is considered a master in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings to be able to sell large, complex solutions. Know strengths and weaknesses of key competitors in account and how to leverage this knowledge in the account. Uses expertise specialty, consultative solution selling and business development skills to align the client's business needs with solution. In-depth knowledge of client's business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure. Considerable knowledge of the customer's infrastructure and architecture. Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving services sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals. Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving full portfolio including hardware, software and services needed for the customer's requirements. Strategic planning on a business development level; can build an effective business case reflecting the value of an appropriate strategy. Balance strategic and tactical pursuits to optimize coverage and develop a predictable revenue stream. Uses C-level engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to offer value-add solutions to the client. Excellent project oversight skills. Works with the account team to build an effective account plan and strategy to drive incremental revenue in the account. Utilizes Siebel as an expert and accurately forecasts business. Successful partner engagement experience. Works effectively with our partners to drive additional revenue. Understand and sells high value software solutions. Demonstrates the ability to leverage the company's portfolio of products and services to change the playing field against our competition. Understands the leverage of services as part of strategic portfolio of products. Promotes services as part of all strategic opportunities. Maintain knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.

Accessibility

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What We Can Offer You:

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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.

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