Storage Sales Specialist - NY/NJ

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • All, NY

7h • Remote

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is seeking an Enterprise Storage Sales Specialist to support the greater New Jersey and New York territory. This role is designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, meaning the primary work location will be from home. HPE is a global edge-to-cloud company focused on helping organizations connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they reside. The company fosters a culture that values varied backgrounds, flexibility, and innovation, providing opportunities for career growth and development.

Requirements

• University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 4+ years of sales experience.
• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, interface with diverse business customers at all levels.
• Storage related sales experience strongly desired.
• Extensive vertical industry knowledge required.
• Based in New Jersey or State of New York and able to travel approximately 50% for local, customer-facing engagements across the territory.
• 4+ years of selling experience with a major storage company.
• Proven customer relationships with 5 major customers in the assigned territory.
• Expert in working with indirect channel model.
• Deep competitive knowledge of at least 1 major storage vendor.
• Expert in selling complete data lifecycle management portfolio – block, file, backup, ransomware protection & others.
• Deep expertise in at least one of the major verticals (FSI, manufacturing, Healthcare) and related solutions.
• Ability to perform hands-on demo of portfolio sold in the past.
• Self-starter and able to ramp quickly.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for sales of storage products and solutions in assigned territory, industry or accounts.
• Uses advanced storage expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities.
• Creates and drives the storage sales pipeline.
• Captures leads outside of specialization and uses closed-loop lead management to ensure assignment and follow-up by others.
• Collaborates with the account pursuit teams to leverage their solutions expertise for business development.
• Build sales readiness and reduces client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in storage.
• Contributes to development of quota objectives and future direction for storage product lines.
• Directs and coordinates supporting sales activities related to pipeline hygiene through account managers, Presales, channel partners and other relevant stakeholders.
• Effectively uses internal sales tools to maintain a healthy pipeline and the account plan in a timely fashion.
• Collaborates across the HPE teams to deliver a consistent approach to developing business, including account planning for end to end solutions.
• Assesses solution feasibility from a technical and business perspective to determine "qualify-in"/"qualify-out" status.
• Negotiates and drives profitable deals to ensure successful closure and a high win rate.
• Drives sales of the storage portfolio, using strong leadership and initiative to successfully prospect, negotiate and close deals.
• Establishes a professional and consultative relationship with the client by achieving an advanced understanding of the unique business needs of the client within the industry.
• Works with clients up to and including the C-level for mid-to-large accounts.
• Leverages advanced knowledge of competitors and industry trends to strategically position the company's products and services.
• Focuses on and works with the channel to forge relationships, provide enablement of key technologies, and co-sell to end-users.
• Effectively leads, evangelizes, and helps to coordinate Storage marketing campaigns (digital /new techniques) to ensure a successful launch and maintenance of the campaign momentum, in alignment with the account strategy.
• Acts as a trusted storage solutions consultant for the slated accounts/region.
• Reinforces and articulates HPE's strategy and portfolio to partners and champions to uncover new business opportunities and contacts, including new logos when appropriate.
• Effectively uses references to craft a story that makes complex technologies seem simple and understandable for the customers.
• Actively generates customer interest and anticipates customer's buying trends.
• Links business and financial benefits with technology offerings.
• Illustrates the ROI & TCO advantages of HPE offerings for the customer's business.
• Cultivates and maintains positive relationships with customers to ensure account retention and growth, to position the company as the preferred vendor to meet business needs.
• Supports deal closure in partnership with relevant internal stakeholders including account managers and channel partners.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping employees reach career goals.
• Unconditional Inclusion: Culture that celebrates individual uniqueness and supports flexibility.

What This Job Offers

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