Sales Consult Services - Mumbai, India - Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Verified Company

Mumbai, India

1 week ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Sales Consult Services

This role has been designated as 'Office', which means you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Global Sales at HPE is about building the future. We are creating opportunities for our customers, one big idea at a time. Selling products, services, software, or solutions we provide innovation and expertise to our customers, both directly and indirectly. To make is happen, our sales teams are given the resources to develop individual talent and creativity.

_ Job Family Definition:
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Sales Specialists & Consultants are product, services, software or solution specialists that are responsible for leading pursuit in their assigned focus areas.

Collaborates with and supports Account Managers and provides specialist expertise within the sales team. Drives proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, uses specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate and close opportunities. May have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography, or may be allocated to one high-potential, competitive attack account.

_ Management Level Definition:
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_ The Services Sales Consultant _is responsible for selling technology, services and/or technology management services (TMS) to end-user customers (and/or partners) in an assigned geographic territory or industry focusing on new business or up-selling within an account. The position requires a solid understanding of the services value proposition and how customers assign services contracts. Knowledge of marketing campaigns to align initiatives with account planning activities is also required. The Services Consultant develops consultative customer proposals, tailoring strategy and solutions to meet the needs of the customer. They understand the customer's business challenges /objectives to provide value added services and solutions. In some instances these specialists may also be responsible for outsourcing deals.

_ Responsibilities:
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Seek out new opportunities and expands and enhances existing opportunities to build and manage the pipeline in specialty area.
Maintains knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position the company's products and services better.
Develop pursuit plans and manage the pipeline to ensure alignment with account managers.
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.
Contributes to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings.
Work closely with and supports account manager, providing technical expertise and support, and participating in client engagements up to C level engagements for more complex solutions in smaller accounts.
May focus on growing contractual renewals for mid size accounts with some complexity, to highertotal contract

- value renewals.

Interface with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.

Build sales readiness and reduce client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in area of specialization.

_ Education and Experience Required:
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University or Bachelor's degree preferred.

Directly related previous work experience.

Demonstrated success in achieving progressively higher quota.
Extensive vertical industry knowledge required.
Typically 58 years advanced sales experience required.

_ Knowledge and Skills:
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Deep knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings, to be able to sell expansive systems or services and attached products.
Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and integrates this knowledge into consultative selling.
Understands the role of IT within area of specialization and how the company's solutions differentially address specific vertical industry challenges as well as their crosssegment capabilities.
Negotiates and drives deals to ensure successful closes and high win rate.
Broad understanding of the customer needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs.
Uses client engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to propose expansive systems or service solutions to client.
Leadership and initiative in successfully driving specialty sales in accounts prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.
Translate product knowledge into customer's added business value.
Uses specialty knowledge to actively prospects within accounts to discover or cultivate sales opportunities.
Conceptualizes and articulates welltargeted solutions in area of technical specialty from proposal to contract signoff
Ability to take a deal through the sales cycle including closing or supporting the close of a deal.
Demonstrates high service knowledge and professionalism in researching and sharing service

- related information with account teams and customers.