About the Role
VM Essentials is HPE’s streamlined, cost-effective virtualization solution designed for small to mid-sized businesses. The Digital Sales Account Manager is a specialist in HPE VM Essentials, responsible for pipeline creation, progression, and conversion within the Down Market Segment. This role focuses on new logo acquisition and new revenue streams, driving proactive campaigns and leveraging industry expertise to qualify opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Develop and support a portfolio of new and existing customers, focusing on HPE Virtualization solutions.
- Drive proactive sales efforts, aligning HPE’s product portfolio with customer needs and industry trends.
- Analyze customer industries and competitive landscapes to effectively position HPE solutions.
- Manage and optimize sales projects while creating growth forecasts.
- Participate in solution campaigns to increase sales and generate new projects.
- Execute up-selling and cross-selling strategies to strengthen customer relationships.
- Source, develop, and expand new opportunities, maintaining a focus on customer outcomes.
- Meet quarterly and annual sales objectives through effective pipeline management.
- Provide weekly updates on active accounts, reporting on sales activities, status, and progress.
- Leverage PTB and IB data to target and prioritize opportunities in collaboration with Account Managers.
- Conduct account and industry research to position HPE VM Essentials effectively.
- Maintain an in-depth understanding of competitor strategies to position HPE more effectively.
- Lead initial customer conversations, validating virtualization opportunities and use cases.
- Develop pursuit plans and manage the sales pipeline to align with account managers’ and partner´ strategies.
- Establish professional consultative relationships, understanding client business needs and aligning them with HPE’s virtualization solutions.
- Collaborate with partners, including Channel, GSI, and SDPs, to drive market expansion.
Requirements
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5 years of IT sales experience with a proven track record in achieving sales targets
- Experience with Salesforce or other CRM systems
- Experience selling Hypervisor technologies
- German and English language fluency
Skills
- HPE VM Essentials or VMware knowledge is a strong advantage
- Channel sales experience is preferred
- Outgoing personality with strong interpersonal and communication skills
- High degree of self-motivation, responsibility, and eagerness to learn
- Accountability
- Active Learning
- Active Listening
- Assertiveness
- Bias
- 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
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Part-time work or job-sharing is also applicable
Experience Level
- Specialist
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, ideally in business, IT, or a related field
Benefits
- Competitive salary and extensive benefits package
- Work-life balance (flexible working time and hybrid workplace model, 30 vacation days, four HPE Wellness-Fridays, up to six months paid parental leave)
- Support for education, training, and career development
- Diverse and dynamic work environment
- Health & Wellbeing comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development programs catered to helping you reach any career goals
- Unconditional Inclusion
About the Company
- 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.
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- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
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