About the role

Sales Specialist with responsibility for managing solution sales opportunities and contributing to pipeline growth at HPE. Engaging clients at IT management level to establish consultative relationships and drive revenue.

Responsibilities

Actively prospects within accounts to discover or cultivate solutions sales opportunities within area of technical specialty (in close cooperation with the account manager).
Manage sales pipeline.
Formulate and expand solutions to generate additional product or service attachments and up sell revenue.
Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
Work with the client up to IT management level.
Contribute to building of the pipeline by generating leads and referrals and new customer opportunities within specialty area.
May focus on growing contractual renewals for small-to-mid size accounts with limited complexity, to higher-total contract-value renewals.

University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota, diversity of business customer and higher level customer interface.
Detailed knowledge of key customer types or customers on given products.
In depth knowledge about product, service, solution and differentiators between own offerings and what competitor's offerings.
Applies specialized technical product/service/solution knowledge in working with account teams to screen and prioritize multiple leads for feasibility.
Use knowledge in specialty, and consultative selling skills, to proactively help customers with making IT business decisions.
Assesses solution feasibility from a technical and business perspective to determine "qualify-in"/"qualify-out" status.
Solid communication and presentation skills within IT at the manager level.
Product demonstration, customer training, product installation skills. (for product specialty roles)
Negotiate profitable deals so that the company can expand opportunities based on the existing business and increase the company's footprint and revenue.

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.
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