Regional Sales Manager - Data Protection

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Washington, NV

3d • $204,500 - $456,500 • Remote

About The Position

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: Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to manage staff activities in solving common and complex business/technical issues within established policies. Manages exempt individual contributors and/or supervisors. Has accountability for results of a major program in terms of cost, direction and people management. Provides guidance on process improvements and recommends changes in alignment with business tactics and strategy for area of responsibility. Plans, manages and monitors operational/tactical activities of Staff. Staff members' work may involve strategic issues. Recruits and supports development of direct staff members. Typically reports to MG2 or Director. Additional guidance/criteria: Manages and controls activities within a single country or a sub-region which is part of a larger geographical Region; Manages at least 4 employees and typically between 5 to 9 direct reports. Span of Control guidelines may differ from these numbers. Sales Managers: Leads the sales community to success. Communicates direction to the team in line with the company’s vision and strategy. Inspires the team to meet and exceed goals. Manages the HPE sales motion towards growth and increased profitability. Creates a high performing team through recruiting, developing, and retaining talent. Organizes the team and adapts the resource mix to maximize the team’s and HPE’s achievement, market coverage and financial performance. Coaches to assure best in class individual and team sales performance. Orchestrates major Enterprise-level customer engagements to deliver results and create the best customer experience in the industry. Manages escalations to solution, and solution to opportunity. Drives a hunting mentality. Engages customer executives to understand the customers’ business context, build trust, and deliver HPE’s value proposition in line with that. Creates early stage opportunities by managing top customers’ executive level relationships. Coaches and enables teams to craft the right technical, IT investment and pricing strategies to win. Partners with stakeholders to maximize cross-HPE team efficiency and customer success. Helps teams to bust barriers and overcome obstacles. Establishes sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management. Manages sales planning, and follows up to ensure consistent execution. Provides timely and accurate sales forecasts. Provides customer feedback and won/loss deal analysis into the broader HPE team.

Requirements

• University or Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
• Typically, 10+ years of experience in sales, including success in achieving progressively higher quota and other sales goals.
• Experience mentoring other sales professional and other employees.
• Prefer experience leading, indirectly managing, or influencing high performing sales teams (through stretch assignments, sales engagements, virtual team projects, etc.)
• Extensive experience selling Data Protection Solutions required
• 2+ years of prior leadership experience required

Nice To Haves

• Vertical/Industry Knowledge preferred

Responsibilities

• Leads the sales community to success.
• Communicates effectively to set direction for the team in line with the company’s vision and strategy.
• Inspires the team to meet and exceed goals.
• Manages the HPE sales motion strategy and deployment towards growth and increased profitability.
• Creates a high performing team through recruiting, developing and retaining talent.
• Organizes the team and adapts the resource mix to maximize the collective team’s and HPE’s achievement, market coverage and financial performance.
• Actively and regularly coaches to assure best in class individual and team sales performance.
• Displays uncompromised integrity.
• Propagates our culture and values and the importance of winning the right way.
• Orchestrates major Enterprise-level customer engagements for HPE to make sure we deliver results through the best customer experience in the industry.
• Acts as role model for the sales community by displaying will to win and action oriented leadership, and by holding customers in the center.
• Manages escalations to solution, and solution to opportunity.
• Drives a hunting mentality.
• Engages with key customer executives (CEO, CFO, COO) to understand the customers’ business context and build trust.
• Coaches and guides team members to develop and deliver HPE’s value proposition in line with the customer's business priorities.
• Creates early stage opportunities by managing top customers’ executive level relationships.
• Coaches and enables teams to craft the right technical, IT investment, pricing and sales strategies to win.
• Partners with stakeholders (channel, categories, HR, legal, other sales teams) across business units to maximize customer success and team efficiency across HPE.
• Helps teams to bust barriers and overcome obstacles.
• Establishes sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management, with clear roles and responsibilities in each stage of the sales process.
• Manages strategic and tactical sales planning at both segment and account levels.
• Follows up to ensure consistent execution.
• Provides timely and accurate sales forecasts and outlooks for customer and market dynamics.
• Provides structured customer feedback, competitive assessments and won/lost deal analysis into category, R&D, strategy & planning and sales teams to promote learning.

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: Manager