Storage Sales Specialist - UKI Acquisition

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

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 Specialist - Enterprise Acquisition:

Sales Specialists are solution experts responsible for leading sales pursuits in their assigned focus areas. An individual contributor sales role tasked with acquiring Enterprise customers who have not purchased Storage and Data Services products from HPE within the last 5 years. An entrepreneurial approach and hunter mentality are vital ingredients for any applicant, the successful candidate will collaborate across HPE teams to deliver a consistent, market leading customer experience no other vendor can match.

• Analysis of assigned account list. Documenting organisation profiles, business strategies, stakeholders, current technology landscapes, alternative HPE incumbency (i.e. Compute/Networking)
• Creation of Territory Plan to prioritise campaigns, direct and coordinate sales activities for pipeline generation, collaboration with account managers, presales, channel partners, ISVs and other stakeholders
• Account plan creation for highest priority target customers

• Proactive outbound prospecting in line with Territory & Account plans
• Collaboration with Marketing, Account Managers & Partners to design & execute campaigns
• Secure & lead Face-to-Face meetings with customers & prospects
• Create proposals: unsolicited, solicited & installed base as required
• Creation of new opportunities across the HPE Data Services & Solutions portfolio

• Manage & advance opportunities through sales stages in line with operational guidelines
• Secure relationships with multiple customer stakeholders to validate qualification criteria in line with MEDDPICC methodology
• Demonstrating financial acumen, creating and validating business cases with stakeholders to ensure progression & insulate against competition
• Create & own a forecast, tracking accurately on a quarterly, monthly & weekly basis

• Negotiate and close deals, increasing the company's market share and revenue across the DSS portfolio
• Deliver revenue against financial targets, predictably in line with forecast

• University or Bachelor's degree preferred
• Demonstrated achievement of quota
• Typically 2+ years of sales experience
• Storage related sales experience strongly desired

• Demonstrate hunter mentality to actively pursue solution opportunities in acquisition accounts
• Be constantly curious about customers, their business & how HPE can help achieve their objectives
• Consultative selling approach in line with MEDDPICC methodology
• Expertise to negotiate and drive deals to ensure successful closure
• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively engage both customer and partner stakeholders at all levels and collaborate with account team members
• Ability to independently articulate the…