Commercial Account Manager IV, Networking - NJ/PA

Commercial Account Manager IV, Networking - NJ/PA

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

   

We are looking for a Commercial Account Manager to support strategic enterprise customers across New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area within HPE Networking's Enterprise East organization. In this field-based role, you will be responsible for driving growth across a portfolio of established enterprise accounts while developing new business opportunities throughout the territory. You will leverage HPE's industry-leading networking portfolio—including wireless, switching, routing, firewalls, SaaS, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), and data center networking solutions—to build trusted executive relationships, expand existing customer investments, and acquire new logos. This role is ideal for a sales professional who thrives in a balanced hunter/farmer environment, enjoys partnering closely with customers to solve complex business challenges, and is excited to help organizations modernize their enterprise networking infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Builds growth opportunities using the account planning process; actively manages planning process through scheduled reviews and updates.
• Extensive time working with and leveraging external partners to deliver solution sale.
• Significant percentage of time spent directly with customer; interfaces with all levels, including highest within customer organization; highly diverse set of functions and buyers; focus in on management level.
• Develops business plan in conjunction with customer.
• Applies consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that result in ongoing profitable revenue growth for the company.
• Maintains high-level of customer loyalty and builds trust and integrity, as indicated in company conducted surveys and reports.
• Responsible for achieving/managing quarterly, half yearly, annual quota and/or margin.
• Enters all opportunities in pipeline tool and updates them weekly. Recommends and Implements industry leading Pipeline management practices.
• Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies.
• Acts as a first interface for international accounts in collaboration with members of global business teams, and local teams.
• Identifies customer requirements, matches with company capabilities and chooses the respective company supply chain accordingly (Volume Direct or Indirect).

Education and Experience Required:

• University or bachelor's degree preferred.
• 8+ years of networking sales experience.
• Demonstrated experience selling enterprise networking solutions to large commercial and/or enterprise accounts, including building executive-level relationships, managing complex sales cycles, and driving both account growth and net-new business.
• Experience selling networking solutions, including routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, or related networking infrastructure technologies.
• Preferred location is New Jersey or the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area, with ability to travel approximately 50–60% within the assigned territory for customer meetings, partner engagements, and regional events.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Has good leadership skills and cross functional expertise.
• Must have good time management skills.
• Broad understanding of the customer's needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs; particularly considering the specific industry/market.
• Ability to coordinate multiple internal and external partners on multiple levels to deliver appropriate solution s