Storage Sales Specialist

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • All, TN

1d • Remote

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. They help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, enabling them to turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. The company culture fosters innovation, values diverse backgrounds, offers flexibility, and encourages bold moves. Storage Sales Specialists are product, services, software, and solution experts responsible for leading sales pursuits in their assigned territory. They collaborate with and support Account Generalists, providing storage expertise within the sales team. This role involves driving proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, using specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities within a designated geography.

Requirements

• University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, interface with diverse business customers.
• Typically, 5+ years of sales experience.
• Storage related sales experience strongly desired.
• 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
• Ability to perform hands-on demo of portfolio sold in the past
• Self-starter and able to ramp quickly

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Responsible for sales of storage products and solutions in assigned territory, industry or accounts.
• Seeks out new opportunities through prospecting, industry networking and events.
• Develops pursuit plans and builds and manages the storage sales pipeline.
• Contributes to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings.
• Works closely with and supports the Account Manager, providing technical expertise and support.
• Participates in client engagements up to C- level for complex solutions in smaller accounts.
• Directs and coordinates supporting sales activities related to pipeline hygiene through account managers, Presales, channel partners and other relevant stakeholders.
• 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 to qualify/disqualify opportunities
• Negotiates profitable deals so that the company can expand opportunities based on the existing business, and increase the company's footprint and revenue in storage.
• Drives sales of the Storage portfolio, using strong leadership and initiative to successfully prospect, negotiate and close deals.
• 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 successful launches and maintenance of 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 understands the 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.

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.
• Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees