Networking Sales Territory Manager - Higher Education (Florida)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 231,000 - 543,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Sales Territory Manager for Higher Education to drive complex solution sales across the Networking portfolio. You will travel to customer sites and collaborate with presales, inside sales, and channel partners to land new logos and expand existing accounts.

You will manage a broad portfolio requiring consultative selling, stakeholder engagement at the executive level, and a focus on profitable revenue growth with partners and customers across the education

Qualifications

• University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of selling experience across diverse responsibilities.
• Expert in selling strategy and mentoring others.
• Strong customer and partner management with executives.
• Experience in complex, large deals and multi-partner ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Develops account plans and long-term sales pipeline to grow market share.
• Focuses on large deals and portfolio management across Networking portfolio.
• Builds relationships with IT and business executives, including C-levels.
• Leverages external partners and consultative-selling techniques to grow revenue.
• Manages forecasts, planning, and reporting for assigned accounts.

Skills

Strategic selling

Account management

Executive engagement

Negotiation

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree; MBA preferred

Job description

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:

The Sales Territory Manager - Higher Education is focused on growing the base business, landing new logos, and driving complex solution sales across the HPE Networking portfolio. You are supported by presales engineers, inside sales, and our channel partners. Most of your time is spent outside the office, in front of customers.

Responsibilities:

• Develops account plans and long-term sales pipeline to increase the company's market share.
• Focuses on larger deals/opportunities and value and/or volume portfolio management, and selling a range of company products and solutions.
• Works with management to develop future business plans; independently determines methods for achieving plans.
• Extensive time spent working with and leveraging a diverse set of external partners.
• Builds strong professional relationships with key IT and business executives, including C level Executives.
• Applies consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that result in ongoing profitable revenue growth for the company.
• Maintains high-level of customer loyalty and builds trust and integrity, as indicated in company conducted surveys and reports.
• Advocates for client needs in negotiating solution sales and troubleshooting delivery issues.
• Develops business plan in conjunction with the customer.
• Analyzes client industry and competitive research and information to facilitate rich client dialogue.
• Actively manages the account to protect and grow the company's business; coordinates all account forecasts, planning and reporting.
• Directs and coordinates all activity on account(s).
• Focuses on generating new business and builds, monitors and manages sales pipeline activity.
• Responsible for achieving/managing quarterly, half yearly, annual quota and/or margin.
• Entres all opportunities in pipeline tool and updates them weekly Builds a list of customers willing to be a reference in person or print.
• Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies.
• Acts as a first interface for international accounts in collaboration with members of global business teams, and local teams.
• Identifies customer requirements, matches with company capabilities and chooses the respective company supply chain accordingly (Volume Direct or Indirect).

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced degree or MBA preferred.
• Prior selling experience includes multiple, diverse set of selling responsibilities.
• Viewed as expert in given field by company and customer; is a mentor of selling strategy, including designing strategy.
• 10+ years of experience as referenced above.
• 5 years commercial and or SLED (State Local Education) account management experience.
• Highly experienced in product specialty (Branch, Campus, and Data Center Networking).
• Experience in related industry.
• Candidate must reside in the greater South Florida region and have the ability to travel to customer sites on a regular basis.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Knows how to motivate partners to sell our solutions.
• Have excellent time management skills and presentation skills.
• Is the go to expert for the technology or solution being presented.
• Strong high-level customer management relationship building, especially working with executives in lines of business, and sometime board level.
• High level of negotiation skills at high level customer management.
• Adept at advanced sales negotiations and positioning solution value under pricing pressures from customer IT and procurement professionals.- proactive presentation of value solutions
• Extensive partner organization intelligence and ability to work closely with multiple partners, to engage the client in business solutions.
• Uses financial-selling techniques with the client and company internal to position value and advance sales motions.Expertise in managing end- to-end sales processes in complex, large deals.
• Relevant knowledge of client's industry; keeps abreast of trends and lead discussions with IT on strategic directions and linking discussions.
• Strong knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions and engages specialist resources as needed.
• Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to the company's solutions.
• Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on a complex, large deal basis.
• Excels in competitive selling skills.
• Sell across platform and specialty.

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.

Job:

Sales Job Level: Master

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Annual Salary USD 231,000 - 543,000 in Florida

Error! – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 231,000 - 543,000 in Florida 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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