Compute Sales Specialist

Compute Sales SpecialistThis role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

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.

Job Description:

HPE Compute is looking for a Compute Sales Specialist

HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) is offering an exciting opportunity in a market that is moving faster than ever before. With HPE strong innovation culture, we develop our products and services to meet the demands of our customers in a world of digital transformation and AI.

HPE is a proud leader in the server market and known as the most innovative vendor in the marketplace. Our culture is characterized by a no-nonsense culture with high drive and optimistic people; entrepreneurs who embrace the constant transformation that our industry is facing and looking for new market opportunities to keep and expand our leading market position.

We are now looking for our next colleague. In the role as Compute Sales Specialist, you are responsible for leading the pursuit for Compute business. You are specialized on the compute products, solutions, services and software portfolio.

You will collaborate with and support Account Managers, provide compute expertise within the sales team and to assigned customers. Drive proactive sales, use your specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities.

Main responsibilities

• Responsible for sales of Compute products and solutions in assigned accounts.
• Seeks out new opportunities through prospecting, industry networking and events.
• Create and drive Compute business pipeline and opportunities.
• Drives the Compute sales process, contributes to proposal development in collaboration with Presales, lead negotiations and deal closings.
• Negotiates and drives profitable deals to ensure successful closure and a high win rate.
• Works closely with the Account Manager, providing technical expertise and support.
• Effectively uses internal sales tools to maintain a healthy pipeline and the account plan in a timely fashion.
• Collaborates across the HPE teams to deliver a consistent approach to developing business, including account planning for end-to-end solutions.
• Directs and coordinates supporting sales activities related to pipeline hygiene through account managers, Presales, channel partners and other relevant stakeholders
• Focuses on and works with the channel to forge relationships, provide enablement of key technologies, and co-sell to end-users.
• Reinforces and articulates HPE's strategy and portfolio to partners and champions to uncover new business opportunities and contacts, including new logos.
• 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.
• Contributes to development of quota objectives and future direction for Compute portfolio.

Skills Requirements

• Understanding Compute / Servers products, services and software offerings.
• Understand the competition and differentiate presenting HPE's unique values.
• Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated and integrates this knowledge into consultative selling.
• Business planning skills, multi-dimensional.
• Experienced with working with channel partners and/or end-users

About You

• University or bachelor's degree preferred.
• Typically, 5-10+ years of Sales experience.
• Compute/server related sales experience strongly desired.
• Ability to interface with diverse business customers.
• Enjoy meeting and connecting with new people.
• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota.
• Proactively striving for improvements and willingness to continues learning.
• Strong communication skills.
• Agile and adaptive to changes.
• Team player with ability to work independently
• Fluency in Swedish and English is required.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

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.

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Job:

Sales

Job Level:

Expert

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