Enterprise Account Manager (Hunter) - NY Metro

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • New York, NY

9d • Remote

About The Position

The Enterprise Account Manager Hunter role will manage one or several larger accounts or act as the account lead for a substantial part of a top account. Understands the customer’s IT and business objectives, priorities, requirements and challenges, and adds value by implementing HPE’s strategy. Drives business performance for all HPE BUs and manages the portfolio mix to optimize profitability of the account. Accountable for pipeline building; accountable for and supportive in deal closing and orchestrating the deal team. Builds and develops relevant customer relationship networks with key influencers and decision makers in IT and business. Develops and engages with the extended partner ecosystem to maximize HPE’s presence in the account. Constantly develops information technology industry knowledge to position HPE’s portfolio in the account. Orchestrates, engages, guides and provides feedback to the extended account team members. Acts as customer’s advocate inside HPE. Plans for accounts to deliver results through the financial year and beyond. This role will be responsible for the business and revenue growth and market presence in the NY Metro territory.

Requirements

• University or Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years account management experience.
• 4+ years of hunting net new logos.
• Experience in IT industry preferred.
• Experience working within an IT department and/or working within customers is a plus.
• Experience in different sales roles is a plus.
• Successful candidate must reside within the greater NY Metro Area and be able to travel regularly to customers within the territory.
• Drives Results: Shows strong will to win, is persistent in face of obstacles and has a clear results orientation.
• Strategic Planning: Able to skillfully articulate a vision for the future and a path to achieve it in an account business plan, aligned with the HPE strategy, direct leadership, and the HPE business units.
• Sales Execution: Able to efficiently deliver on short term sales engagements and objectives.
• Continuous Learning: Continuously and actively pursues own learning.
• IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains thorough knowledge of cutting edge IT industry developments and technology trends with potential impacts to our customers.
• HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates a thorough understanding of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings - their value propositions, competitive differentiators, and benefits to our customers and our customers' customers.
• Team Leadership: Skilled at leading teams (including dispersed and indirect team members) successfully through sales engagements in a complex matrix organization.
• Network/Relationship Building: Skilled at creating strong professional relationships; understands and leverages the value of networks and collaboration.
• Two-way communication: Able to listen actively to understand the perspectives of others, and to articulate value propositions, plans, and proposals in language relevant to the customer, partner or internal stakeholder.
• Influencing and Negotiating: Understands and proficiently leverages influencing and negotiation techniques.
• Business Acumen: Understands how different parts of a business interoperate to produce business outcomes and how actions impact company results. Has a thorough understanding of general business concepts and the economy. Able to understand financial reports and make relevant conclusions for planning. Similar principles apply to public sector organizations.
• Operational Excellence: Able to show predictability and operational excellence both internally and externally.
• Integrity: Acts with integrity throughout complex situations even if under pressure.
• Vertical/Industry Knowledge Preferred: Understands the customer's industry landscape, enterprise architecture, and partner and influencer ecosystem, and is able to use this knowledge to build and advise the customer on its digital journey plan.
• Consulting: Can synthesize a number of skills and relevant knowledge to guide the customer through a process of achieving business outcomes leveraging HPE's portfolio.
• Impact/Scope: Large hunting-designated accounts per geo Manages accounts representing significant revenue for HPE. Works with decision-makers across customer organizations and internal Business Unit teams and navigate matrix structure. Orchestrates resources for account pursuits
• Complexity: Leads complex sales engagements, project management and coordination to meet deadlines. Typically oversees engagements with cross-BU portfolio solutions.
• Accountability
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Vertical/Industry Knowledge Preferred: Understands the customer's industry landscape, enterprise architecture, and partner and influencer ecosystem, and is able to use this knowledge to build and advise the customer on its digital journey plan.
• Consulting: Can synthesize a number of skills and relevant knowledge to guide the customer through a process of achieving business outcomes leveraging HPE's portfolio.
• Experience working within an IT department and/or working within customers is a plus.
• Experience in different sales roles is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Penetrate whitespace accounts – industry specific / vertical experience / executive relationships
• Lead with AI, Cloud, Networking, transformational ~ acquire and win complex deals
• Demonstrated success in breaking into large Fortune 100 enterprise accounts; acquiring new wins, Net New Logos, market expansion and growth in account base, innovative/creative approach
• Construct strategic executable plans
• Understand channel & partner ecosystem
• Self-motivated, pro-active, critical thinking skills, resourceful, navigate complex matrix environments (eg. internal & external stakeholders, executives, c-level customers, channel/partner ecosystem etc)
• Experience with large accounts/deals, transacting with top fortune 100 accounts, transacting complex/transformational/large scale deals
• Outcome based selling~ translate customer challenges into solution selling

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level