CloudOps Channel Specialist

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 355,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the United States (Illinois) seeks a CloudOps Channel Specialist for a hybrid role requiring an average of 2 days per week in an HPE office. You will lead joint business planning with strategic partners, drive co-selling with HPE Enterprise Field Sales, and expand multi-product CloudOps adoption.

As a trusted advisor, you will coordinate Pre-Sales, BU, Services and Channel resources, develop partner growth plans, and influence roadmap communications to partners and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred, ideally in business, IT, or a related field.
• 5+ years of Tech sales experience with a proven track record in achieving sales targets.
• HPE VM Essentials or VMware knowledge is a strong advantage.
• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems.
• Experience selling Hypervisor technologies.
• Channel sales experience is preferred.
• Outgoing personality with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• High degree of self-motivation, responsibility, and eagerness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Own joint business planning and execution with strategic partners, aligned to CloudOps priorities and revenue objectives with a strong focus on strategic enterprise opportunities and competitive displacement.
• Drive joint pipeline generation and co-selling with partners and HPE Enterprise Field Sales to create and accelerate new CloudOps opportunities.
• Expand strategic partners across CloudOps portfolio, increasing multi-product adoption and wallet share.
• Develop and execute partner-specific growth plans focused on strategic pipeline, multi-product adoption and CloudOps revenue.
• Lead strategic opportunity reviews, pipeline reviews and partner business reviews to maintain execution rigor and accelerate deal progression.
• Engage directly with partners and customers through executive engagements, technical workshops, CloudOps modernization sessions and strategic customer meetings.

Skills

Tech sales

Sales targets

CRM (Salesforce)

VMware knowledge

Hypervisor tech

Channel sales

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

CloudOps Channel Specialist

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:

HPE CloudOps brings together capabilities to help customers simplify, automate and modernize operations across virtualized, private and hybrid cloud environments.

The CloudOps Channel Specialist is a strategic partner leader responsible for accelerating and scaling CloudOps growth through HPE’s most strategic partners. The role shapes and executes joint business strategies with partners, identifies and develops high value CloudOps opportunities, and drives multi-product adoption, strategic pipeline and revenue growth across Morpheus Enterprise, OpsRamp and full CloudOps portfolio.

Operating at the intersection of Partners, Enterprise Field Sales, Pre-Sales, Services and Business Units, the role orchestrates the broader HPE ecosystem to unlock strategic opportunities, accelerate customer engagements to generate and convert partner led demand into revenue. The role serves as a trusted advisor and growth partner, helping strategic partners strengthen their capabilities, build differentiated solutions and services, and establish repeatable joint GTM motions that can scale across customers and markets.

In this role you:

• Own joint business planning and execution with strategic partners, aligned to HPE CloudOps priorities and revenue objectives with a strong focus on strategic enterprise opportunities and competitive displacement.
• Drive joint pipeline generation and co-selling with partners and HPE Enterprise Field Sales to create and accelerate new CloudOps opportunities.
• Expand strategic partners across CloudOps portfolio, increasing multi-product adoption and wallet share.
• Develop and execute partner-specific growth plans focused on strategic pipeline, multi-product adoption and CloudOps revenue.
• Lead strategic opportunity reviews, pipeline reviews and partner business reviews to maintain execution rigor and accelerate deal progression.
• Engage directly with partners and customers through executive engagements, technical workshops, CloudOps modernization sessions and strategic customer meetings.
• Join partners on strategic customer visits and unattended customer opportunities, demonstrating HPE CloudOps value and enabling partners.
• Orchestrate the right Pre-Sales, Business Unit, Services, Channel and Sales resources to support strategic partner opportunities and improve conversion.
• Help partners develop and scale their CloudOps practice and services readiness, including POCs, migrations, implementation and lifecycle services.
• Communicate and activate HPE CloudOps roadmap, product releases, promotions, sales plays and competitive positioning with strategic partners.
• Build partner confidence and capability to position CloudOps against competitive virtualization, hybrid cloud and IT operations solutions.
• Establish strong relationships with partner executives, sales leaders, solution architects and services leaders to create sustained joint business momentum.
• Share best practices, successful use cases and repeatable sales motions across the broader CloudOps partner ecosystem.

If you are..

• Good at partnering, innovating, and making things happen? Good start, you are aligned to our core values!

If you have these Skills, Expertise, Attitude and Education…

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in business, IT, or a related field
• 5+ years of Tech sales experience with a proven track record in achieving sales targets
• HPE VM Essentials or VMware knowledge is a strong advantage
• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems
• Experience selling Hypervisor technologies
• Channel sales experience is preferred
• Outgoing personality with strong interpersonal and communication skills
• High degree of self-motivation, responsibility, and eagerness to learn

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.

Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

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 Level: Specialist

"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 151,500 - 355,000 in Illinois
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 60%/40%."

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