Director AI Sales APJ

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Singapore seeks a Director of AI Sales APJ. This hybrid role requires accountability for business growth and market share increases, along with developing long-term relationships with clients. Candidates should have 5-10 years in sales management and extensive industry experience. Strong skills in strategic planning and leadership are essential. The company offers a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional growth, ensuring a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports overall wellbeing.

Benefits

Health & Wellbeing benefits

Personal & Professional Development programs

Comprehensive suite of benefits for employees

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of sales and progressive management experience.
• 10-15 years of industry experience.
• Demonstrated results in growing a business or expanding a market.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for business growth and revenue increases.
• Develops tactics to generate new sales.
• Builds lasting, consultative relationships with customer accounts.

Skills

Strategic Sales Planning

Budget Management

C-Level Partnering

Solution Selling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Overview

Director AI Sales APJ. 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:

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.
• 5-10 years of sales and progressive management experience.
• 10-15 years of industry experience.
• Demonstrated results in growing a business or expanding a market.
• Demonstrated career experience leading and winning complex sales campaigns at large organizations as an individual contributor.

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.
• 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.
• Team Building – Owns people resource planning to ensure that the team’s talents and skills are maximized; ensures that each team member is aligned to a role that best leverages their skills; performance manages under performing team members.
• Coach / Mentor – Using their prior experiences in solution selling, they coach and guide account managers to help them improve and perfect their solution selling technique.
• 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
• 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 (Inactive)
• Long Term Planning
• Managing Ambiguity

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.
• Let’s Stay Connected — Follow @HPECareers on Instagram to see the latest on people, culture and tech at HPE.

Job: Sales

Job Level: Director

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