Account Manager Higher Education (Michigan)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Michigan; Remote; USD 231,000 - 543,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Career development

Inclusive workplace

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Michigan seeks an Account Manager to oversee several higher education accounts in Michigan and northern Ohio. The role is remote/teleworker, with regular travel within the region.

You will drive proactive campaigns to build a robust pipeline, qualify and negotiate opportunities, and close deals with named accounts. Requires 8+ years of sales experience and 5+ years in higher education account management; Bachelor's degree or higher, MBA preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of sales experience in higher education accounts.
• 5+ years higher education account management experience.
• In-depth knowledge of products, solutions, and competitors to sell complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Handle Higher Education accounts and develop a long-term sales pipeline.
• Prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities.
• Engage with C-level when appropriate to understand client needs and present solutions.
• Maintain cross-portfolio knowledge and support account leads with integration of solutions.
• Build enduring executive relationships and drive value-added solutions.

Skills

Sales experience

Higher education sales

C-level engagement

Strategic planning

Consultative selling

Industry knowledge

Relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Job description

Account Manager Higher Education (Michigan)

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

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

HPE is seeking an Account Manager to manage several high education accounts in Michigan and in northern Ohio! In this amazing role the Account Manager will drive proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, use specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. The Account Manager will have named accounts allocated and or cover a designated geography.

Location: This is a teleworker position. Must reside and be able to travel within Michigan and in northern Ohio on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

• Handling Higher Education
• Develops long term sales pipeline to increase the company’s market share in specialized area
• Use expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities to build the pipeline
• Set direction for business development and solution replication
• Creates and grows reference customers
• Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis
• 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

Education and Experience

• University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced degree or MBA preferred. Or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of sales experience.
• 5+ years higher education account management experience.
• Experience in related industry.

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
• 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
• HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities.

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.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness.

Job: Sales Job Level: Master

Job: Sales Job Level: Master

Salary

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 231,000 - 543,000 in Michigan This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 50%/50%.

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