Orchestrates major Enterprise-level customer engagements for HPE to make sure we deliver results through the best customer experience in the industry. Acts as role model for the sales community by displaying will to win and action oriented leadership, and by holding customers in the center. Manages escalations to solution, and solution to opportunity. Drives a hunting mentality. Engages with key customer executives (CEO, CFO, COO) to understand the customers’ business context and build trust. Coaches and guides team members to develop and deliver HPE’s value proposition in line with the customer's business priorities. Creates early stage opportunities by managing top customers’ executive level relationships. Coaches and enables teams to craft the right technical, IT investment, pricing and sales strategies to win. Partners with stakeholders (channel, categories, HR, legal, other sales teams) across business units to maximize customer success and team efficiency across HPE. Helps teams to bust barriers and overcome obstacles. Present HPE Portfolio and proposition to Customer stakeholders. Manage and develop direct business relationships with customers. Establishes sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management, with clear roles and responsibilities in each stage of the sales process. Manages strategic and tactical sales planning at both segment and account levels. Follows up to ensure consistent execution. Provides timely and accurate sales forecasts and outlooks for customer and market dynamics. Provides structured customer feedback, competitive assessments and won/lost deal analysis into category, R&D, strategy & planning and sales teams to promote learning. University or Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience. 10-12+ years’ experience with 5-7years of sales experience, including success in achieving progressively higher quota and other sales goals. Experience mentoring other sales professional and other employees. Experience leading and directly managing high performing sales teams (through stretch assignments, sales engagements, virtual team projects, etc.) Must be in People Management role for 2+years. Demonstrated project management skills. Good communication skills Fluency in English Willingness to travel across Africa Deploys Purpose and Vision: Understands HPE's vision and strategy. Aligns and translates them into the team’s vision, purpose, and clear goals. Strategic Thinking: Understands how to best deploy the business model, individual and team strengths to the most impactful opportunities or challenges. Coaches and guides the direct and indirect team to consider each deal's impact to HPE's long term success. Leads the team to determine how HPE adds value to our customer and our customer's customers. Leads through Change: Embraces business changes; directs and enables shifts within the team. Inspires the Team: Engages and energizes team members to achieve team goals and realize their individual potential. Builds Teams: Creates and supports a high performing team through attracting, hiring, developing, promoting, and retaining best in class talent. Plans resource allocation and aligns talent to opportunities, to maximize the effectiveness of the coverage model. Develops Talent: Coaches, mentors, and develops talent to maximize individual and team performance. Acts as an advisor helping teams navigate unusual deal situations while encouraging learning. Integrity: Wins the right way and displays high ethical standards in every action. Builds Long-Term Customer/Partner Relationships: Understands the customer's or partner's strategy and business needs and positions HPE as a partner invested in the customer's/channel partner's long term business outcomes, leveraging HPE’s portfolio. HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates an understanding of the full portfolio of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings - their value propositions, competitive differentiators, and benefits to our customers. Guides the team to define the solutions roadmap for the customer and articulate targeted solutions to add value to the client. IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains up-to-date knowledge of IT industry developments and technology trends with potential impacts to our customers. Vertical/Industry Knowledge preferred: Understands industry drivers, trends, best practices, and customer needs; able to define how HPE adds value in a customer's business and in an industry. Able to articulate value propositions and messaging tailored to the customer's industry and practices. Business Analysis: Demonstrates mastery at understanding and analyzing customer, competitor, market, country-specific, and financial information. Leverages analytics, sound judgment, and an ability to "see beyond the data" to decide on winning tactics. Sales Methodology: Deploys sales methodology to maximize coverage and customer engagement. Drives Results: Drives results (pipeline, forecast, revenue, profit) in alignment with the company strategy. Drives sales execution. Maximizes outcome of resources. Business and Financial Acumen: Understands how different parts of a business interoperate to produce business outcomes, including financial outcomes. Understands how actions and decisions impact customer, partner, and HPE achievement and KPI's. Understands general business concepts and the economy. Able to interpret financial reports and make relevant conclusions for planning. Navigates and manages risks that may impact deals within the assigned territory (e.g., country-specific, political, economic, etc.) Responsible for complex multi-BU business deals Work with Partner and Distributors across Africa to drive Sales motion.HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to diversity and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global diverse team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. Please click here: . if applicable to the role you applied to, you must
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