Sales Specialist - Network for AI - Large Enterprise Accounts

Sales Specialist - Network for AI - Large Enterprise Accounts

  

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

   

Network for AI Sales Specialists are solution specialists responsible for leading Data Center and Routing network sales. Collaborates with and supports Account Managers and provides specialist expertise within the sales team. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. May have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography.

Responsibilities:

· Develops long term sales pipeline to increase the company’s market share in Data Center and Routing networking.

· Use expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities to build the pipeline in and drive pursuit.

· Provide support for sales segments.

· Set direction for business development and solution replication.

· Creates and grows reference customers.

· Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis.

· May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts.

· Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, including the C- level for mid-to-large accounts by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.

· Maintain and use overall cross-portfolio knowledge to support account leads with integration of solutions.

· Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promote its total solution capabilities.

· Maintains expertise on IT at all levels – new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO’s, typical objectives, measures, metrics.

· Maintains broad market and competitor knowledge to ensure credibility with Customer Executives.

Education and Experience:

· University or Bachelor’s degree preferred.

· Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota diversity of business customers, and higher-level customer interface.

· Prior experience selling networking solutions includes multiple, diverse set of selling responsibilities.

· Viewed as an expert in the given field by the company and the customer.

· Typically, 12+ years of related sales experience.

· Prior Networking technology sales experience required

· Prior experience with setting sales/GTM strategy

· Prior experience with Enterprise accounts required

Knowledge and Skills:

· Is considered a master in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor’s offerings to be able to sell large, complex network solutions.

· Know strengths and weaknesses of key competitors in account and how to leverage this knowledge in the account.

· Uses expertise specialty, consultative solution selling and business development skills to align the client’s business needs with solution.

· In-depth knowledge of client’s business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure.

· Considerable knowledge of the customer’s infrastructure and architecture.

· Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving services sales in accounts – prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.

· Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving full portfolio including hardware, software and services needed for the customer’s requirements.

· Strategic planning on a business development level; can build an effective business case reflecting the value of an appropriate strategy.

· Balance strategic and tactical pursuits to optimize coverage and develop a predicta