Sales Specialists & Consultant

Sales Specialists & Consultant This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

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.

Global Sales at HPE is about building the future. We are redefining what’s next and combining our legacy of innovation with a bold new goal to accelerate everything we do. Our sales organization is comprised of 10,000+ professionals in sales, presales, service, and support functions. Together with our partners, we deliver global, commercial, public sector & small/medium business customers throughout 11 geographies. We’re transforming businesses. Join us redefine what’s next for you. What you’ll do:

Seek out new opportunities and expands and enhances existing opportunities to build and manage the pipeline in specialty area. Maintains knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's products and services better. Develop pursuit plans and manage the pipeline to ensure alignment with account managers. Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry. Contributes to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings. Work closely with and supports account manager, providing technical expertise and support, and participating in client engagements up to C- level engagements for more complex solutions in smaller accounts. May focus on growing contractual renewals for mid size accounts with some complexity, to higher-total contract- value renewals. Interface with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.Build sales readiness and reduce client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in area of specialization. What you need to bring:

Required: University or Bachelor's degree. Technical degree preferred. Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, diversity of business customer and higher level customer interface. Detailed knowledge of key customer types or customers on given products  services Typically 6-10 years of experience in specialty sales. Knowledge and Skills: Deep knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings, to be able to sell expansive systems or services and attached products. Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and integrates this knowledge into consultative selling. Understands the role of IT within area of specialization and how the company's solutions differentially address specific vertical industry challenges as well as their cross-segment capabilities. Negotiates and drives deals to ensure successful closes and high win rate. Broad understanding of the customer needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs. Uses client engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to propose expansive systems or service solutions to client. Leadership and initiative in successfully driving specialty sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals. Translate product knowledge into customer's added business value. Uses