Partner Business Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2d • Remote

About The Position

Partner Business Manager 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: Serves as a trusted adviser to the Partner and develops a mutually beneficial relationship in alignment with HPE business priorities. Drives end-to-end revenue, HPE profitability, and pipeline through joint business plans and data-driven sales efforts. Articulates both HPE global and local business strategies to effectively “sell with”, “sell to”, and “sell through” the Partner, creating a scalable selling ecosystem. Develops knowledge of Partner priorities, industry trends, IT landscape, IT investment strategy, HPE priorities, and HPE Technology to differentiate HPE from competitors. Coordinates and executes HPE activities with the Partner, leveraging HPE specialists when needed. Aligns field sales to drive increased value to HPE for pipeline and revenue/profit growth while leveraging the collective strength of the partner ecosystem. Leads HPE strategy, programs, and systems with and on behalf of the Partner to assure accelerated financial outcomes and build partner loyalty to HPE. These jobs focus on selling to customers through the Partner as an extension of HPE's salesforce, typically through work that occurs outside HPE offices.

Requirements

• University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Typically 5+ years of selling experience at end-user account or partner level.
• Solid experience in selling to partners in a complex environment.
• Solid understanding of the IT industry, competing vendors, and the channel. Dimensions include competitive positioning.
• Solid understanding of the company's organization & operations, including key business rules, and alignment with company GBU go-to-market strategies, partner segmentation, key programs & initiatives, structure.
• Solid understanding of many of the company's products, software, and services.
• Able to communicate the strengths of company's offerings, and overcome objections.
• Effectively sells company offerings by building strategic relationships with partner decision makers; and promoting company programs and offerings.
• Develops account plans with partner to grow the company's share of the business.
• Partners effectively with others in the account to ensure coordinated efficient account management.
• Ability to motivate partner's sales force.
• Solid understanding of pipeline management discipline and ability to explain benefits to partners.
• 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 + 6 more

Responsibilities

• Serves as the expert to the partner for complex information regarding product, services, and software transitions, promotions, and configurations.
• Educates and updates partners on new company technologies or solutions.
• May be brought in by partners to sell company brand to end customers.
• Establishes and maintains account plans to promote sales growth.
• Achieves assigned quota for company products, services, and software.
• Transactional and relationship selling within a team of selling professionals; physically visits partner customers at their offices.
• Creates, fills-in and manages company funnel for deals with partners and transforms potential leads into joint sales activities.
• Establishes relationship with partner at all organization levels including senior executives.
• Ensures partners are compliant with legal and SBC practices.
• May drive SOW growth with distributors who are managing small partners on behalf of company.
• May recruit and develop business relationship with new partners.

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