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About the Role
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking an experienced Account Manager to manage larger accounts, drive business performance, and build customer relationships. The role requires 6-10+ years of account management experience in the IT industry.
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Responsibilities
- Articulate a two way connection between customer's KPIs and HPE's solutions
- Build and execute a plan to drive growth and profitability across HPE's portfolio
- Engage with customer to identify opportunities and translate business challenges into IT opportunities
- Develop and update expertise in IT technology
- Build, develop and lead the extended account team
- Develop and execute a comprehensive account business plan for defined accounts
Requirements
- 6 10+ years account management experience
- Experience in IT industry preferred
- University or Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Engineering or technology education, advanced degree or MBA desired
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Job Description
- Manages one or several larger accounts or acts as the account lead for a substantial part of a top account.
- Understands the customer’s IT and business objectives, priorities, requirements and challenges, and adds value by implementing HPE’s strategy.
- Drives business performance for all HPE BUs and manages the portfolio mix to optimize profitability of the account.
- Accountable for pipeline building; accountable for and supportive in deal closing and orchestrating the deal team.
- Builds and develops relevant customer relationship networks with key influencers and decision makers in IT and business.
- Develops and engages with the extended partner ecosystem to maximize HPE’s presence in the account.
- Constantly develops information technology industry knowledge to position HPE’s portfolio in the account.
- Orchestrates, engages, guides and provides feedback to the extended account team members.
- Acts as customer’s advocate inside HPE.
- Plans for accounts to deliver results through the financial year and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Articulates a two way connection between the customer's core KPIs, business priorities and initiatives, and the plan to support the customer with IT solutions.
- Influences the decision making of customer executives through describing the value of HPE's solutions and their relevance to the customer's priorities.
- Positions HPE strategy and solutions in such a way that the customer sees that HPE is critically important to their business.
- When appropriate, understands the innovation agenda and digital journey of the customer, and provides input into them.
- Builds a business value framework for the customer.
- Builds and executes a plan to drive growth and profitability across HPE's portfolio, in a structured and recurring way.
- Drives growth in HPE's strategic value portfolio through positioning these solutions with the customer.
- Formulates and presents technology choices for the customer that will expand HPE's presence and margin in the account.
- Leverages HPE programs and tools (e.g. Executive Sponsors, BU deal support, and supply chain programs) to improve business performance.
- Contributes to internal reviews connected to deals and sales planning.
- Engages with the customer to identify opportunities.
- Translates customers' business challenges and goals into IT opportunities.
Education and Experience
- University or Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
- Engineering or technology education, advanced degree or MBA desired.
- Typically 6 10+ years account management experience.
- Experience in IT industry preferred.
- Experience working within an IT department and/or working within customers is a plus.
- Experience in vertical industry preferred.
- Experience in different sales roles is a plus.
Knowledge and Skills
- Drives Results: Shows strong will to win, is persistent in face of obstacles and has a clear results orientation.
- Strategic Planning: Able to skillfully articulate a vision for the future and a path to achieve it in an account business plan.
- Sales Execution: Able to efficiently deliver on short term sales engagements and objectives.
- Continuous Learning: Continuously and actively pursues own learning.
- IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains thorough knowledge of cutting edge IT industry developments and technology trends.
- HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates a thorough understanding of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings.
- Team Leadership: Skilled at leading teams successfully through sales engagements in a complex matrix organization.
- Network/Relationship Building: Skilled at creating strong professional relationships.
- Two way communication: Able to listen actively and articulate value propositions.
- Influencing and Negotiating: Understands and proficiently leverages influencing and negotiation techniques.
- Business Acumen: Understands how different parts of a business interoperate to produce business outcomes.
- Operational Excellence: Able to show predictability and operational excellence both internally and externally.
What We Can Offer You
- Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
- Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping you reach any career goals.
- Unconditional Inclusion: Inclusive work environment celebrating individual uniqueness.
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