Storage Sales Specialist - Commercial Account

Storage Sales Specialist - Commercial Account

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

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.

Storage Sales Specialists - Commercial Accounts are product, services, software and solution specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned territory. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities.

This position will primarily cover Commercial accounts in the greater New York and New Jersey region.

How You'll Make Your Mark:

• Responsible for sales of storage products and solutions in assigned territory, industry or accounts with and through Channel Partners.
• 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.
• 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 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 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.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• 4+ years of selling experience with a major storage company (Dell/EMC, Pure, NetApp)
• Candidate must reside in the Greater New York Region and be able to travel regularly within the territory to support customer accounts.
• 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

What We Can Offer You:

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.

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. United States of America: Annual Salary USD 183,000 - 378,000 in New YorkThis range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 50%/50%.

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