GreenLake Solution Architect
Zerto
This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 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 diverse 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:
We’re solving the world’s most complex challenges, and our people are at the forefront of progress. In a Sales role at HPE, you’ll play a part in building the future – one big idea at a time. You’ll be selling HPE products, services, software, or solutions to customers, both directly and indirectly. Working at HPE, you’ll have the resources to develop your talent and creativity. Are you ready to unleash your potential?
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates in-depth knowledge in one or more solution domains, company products, services, and solutions as well as the customer’s technical and business environment.
- Develops compelling customer proposals and critically reviews them, manages the expectations of internal stakeholders and customers, ensuring the meeting of customer’s business and technical requirements are met.
- Quantifies the impact of the business problem(s), positions business value, identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the overall proposed solution to achieve long-term business objectives.
- Incorporates an understanding of technology trends within the IT industry, as well as the customer’s industry.
- Drives the Account Business Planning process, leveraging knowledge of industry trends and the customer’s technical environment.
- Participates in deep-dive discussions and partners with the account team to build customer relationships at all levels by advocating and presenting technical strategies for a customer's transformation.
- Produces in-depth comparative analysis of alternative approaches to meet solution requirements.
- Leverages deep knowledge of partner products and services and adjusts strategies to leverage the relationship between the service provider/partner and the customer.
- Actively participates in sales forecast meetings and provides feedback to accelerate the sales lifecycle.
- Documents ongoing work (activities, tasks) throughout the sales cycle using specific tools and resources and sharing best practices with peers and partners to collaborate more effectively.
- Builds strong professional relationships with customer key executives across the business and industry.
Education and Experience:
- First-level university technical degree or equivalent technical qualifications. Advanced degree in technology preferred.
- 8–12 years of technical experience in IT with a focus on technical consulting and solution selling
- Enterprise architecture frameworks and project management methodologies and certifications are helpful, but not required.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Advanced understanding of the company portfolio of products, software, services, solution domain specialization, adjacent solution domain(s), and how they can be combined to address customer needs.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills, including active listening and storytelling, and the ability to communicate in English and applicable local languages as needed to perform job requirements.
- Demonstrates advanced discussion and persuasion skills used to support company point-of-view, while respectfully questioning and challenging proposed solutions.
- Advanced business and financial acumen—sales cycle, pipeline growth, reporting, ability to influence, business strategy linkage— with an understanding of functional responsibilities of various customer business roles, including typical KPIs important to, CxOs and line-of-business (LOB) executives; knowledgeable about TCO/ROI concepts and calculations, financial models, and understand how customers generate revenue.
- Advanced consultative/value selling skills, including, whiteboarding, objection handling, and closing skills to proactively help customers make business decisions.
- Hands on experience with one or more products, solutions, tools, or services aligned to respective job responsibility.
- Ability to design and develop a playbook for demonstrations or walk throughs of products, solutions, tools, or service.
- Ability to deliver live demonstrations or walk throughs of products, solutions, tools, or service to customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Advanced project and time management knowledge or experience with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, including appropriate due diligence.
- Advanced knowledge of partner offerings and how/when to leverage them for deals within an area of specialization, understanding of the company's go-to-market strategy.
- Advanced understanding of Geo application of company’s go-to-market strategy as it relates to partners; has broad knowledge of partner offerings, along with how/when to leverage them for deals.
- Advanced strategic planning and account planning skills, as well as being an expert at using business and technical tools, and standard customer relationship management (CRM) systems.
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What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
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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.
Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse 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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