LASER GreenLake Category Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Paço de Arcos; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Career development programs

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP in Portugal is seeking a LASER GreenLake Category Manager to drive growth. You will own end-to-end category management—from strategy and launch to pricing and field readiness—and align local activities with global plans.

The role requires strong English and local language skills, plus extensive experience in service business management and cross‑functional collaboration with sales, marketing and partners.

Qualifications

• Local language and English proficiency (advanced to bilingual).
• Typically 12+ years of experience in service business management.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end category management for LASER, including offer content and lifecycle.
• Develop local growth plans and coordinate with regional teams.
• Manage launches, pricing, and promotions for the LASER category.
• Act as SPOC for local sales and represent the portfolio at events.
• Provide feedback to WW category team on competitiveness.
• Train sales and enablement; support deal shaping.

Skills

Category management

Lifecycle management

Sales enablement

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

LASER GreenLake Category Manager

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' 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:

As a LASER Greenlake Category Manager, you will drive profitable business growth. Ensures end-to-end management of a product category across its lifecycle and ensures improved service-to-segment mapping concerning revenue, gross margin, and service offering. A LASER Category Manager executes the category strategy (across product offering, positioning, placement, and pricing) in the LASER countries. Manages NPI/ NSI in LASER, and ensures sales readiness in geography. Implement business development initiatives in LASER and drive and lead local key business initiatives to drive order/revenue growth. In case of gaps, WW drives LASER-specific recovery/ acceleration plans. Segment mapping and heat mapping Drives business opportunities for the offer and implements local activities. Evangelizes and promotes the offer within the sales teams and customer/ partner events Performs Lifecycle management, cross-sales motion, cross-RTM SPOC for LASER sellers for every aspect of the offer Solicits feedback from customers/ partners on competitiveness and needs and provides input to the WW category team.

Major Tasks

E2E responsibility for one of the following categories: HPE GreenLake. E2E responsibility means the category manager is the expert for the offer–service content and all processes around them from offer creation to order booking. SPOC for Local Sales

• Identifies local target customers based on global guidance + geo geo-specific segments
• Executes the global launch plan
• Executes global action plan to maximize order volume
• Yearly and quarterly category growth plan for LASER
• Identifies and sizes additional opportunities specific to the local market and develops/ executes an initiative plan to optimize business across all RTM and per sales motion
• Actions could include promotions, bundles, call-out activities, account identification
• Test new approaches/ new material with some sellers/ customers/ partners before broader rollout and industrialization
• Represents the portfolio in customer/ partner events and training
• Communicates the end customer as well as the partner value proposition
• Supports deal shaping and secures the customer gets the best service offer pending their use case
• Drives funnel growth, understands funnel size and shape for their offer and key deals
• Provides competitive insight and trains sales on how to sell against
• Executes the sales enablement plan, using the global sales enablement material and sales collateral for end-user sales and channels. Localizes the material as needed
• Provides training to local sales team based on global material
• Approve contractual discounts and central procurement requests
• Supports piloting for new offers

Education and Experience Required:

Local language and English (advanced to Bilingual) Typically 12+ years to demonstrate mastery of Service Business Management. Advanced experience in several of the related disciplines of delivery, solution architecting, or business planning before taking a business management role.

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