Sales Manager

Sales ManagerThis role has been designed as 'Onsite' with an expectation that you will primarily work 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 Family Definition:
Please view the sub-family description (e.
g.
for Sales Managers, Networking & Executives, Inside Sales, Presales Consulting, etc.
) below the management level definition of the Workday job profile.
Management Level Definition:
Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to manage staff activities in solving common and complex business/technical issues within established policies.
Manages exempt individual contributors and/or supervisors.
Has accountability for results of a major program in terms of cost, direction and people management.
Provides guidance on process improvements and recommends changes in alignment with business tactics and strategy for area of responsibility.
Plans, manages and monitors operational/tactical activities of Staff.
Staff members' work may involve strategic issues.
Recruits and supports development of direct staff members.
Typically reports to MG2 or Director.
Sales Managers:
Leads the sales community to success.
Communicates direction to the team in line with the company's vision and strategy.
Inspires the team to meet and exceed goals.
Manages the HPE sales motion towards growth and increased profitability.
Creates a high performing team through recruiting, developing, and retaining talent.
Organizes the team and adapts the resource mix to maximize the team's and HPE's achievement, market coverage and financial performance.
Coaches to assure best in class individual and team sales performance.
Orchestrates major Enterprise-level customer engagements to deliver results and create the best customer experience in the industry.
Manages escalations to solution, and solution to opportunity.
Drives a hunting mentality.
Engages customer executives to understand the customers' business context, build trust, and deliver HPE's value proposition in line with that.
Creates early stage opportunities by managing top customers' executive level relationships.
Coaches and enables teams to craft the right technical, IT investment and pricing strategies to win.
Partners with stakeholders to maximize cross-HPE team efficiency and customer success.
Helps teams to bust barriers and overcome obstacles.
Establishes sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management.
Manages sales planning, and follows up to ensure consistent execution.
Provides timely and accurate sales forecasts.
Provides customer feedback and won/loss deal analysis into the broader HPE team.
Responsibilities:
Communicates effectively to set direction for the team in line with the company's vision and strategy.
Manages the HPE sales motion strategy and deployment towards growth and increased profitability.
Creates a high performing team through recruiting, developing and retaining talent.
Organizes the team and adapts the resource mix to maximize the collective team's and HPE's achievement, market coverage and financial performance.
Actively and regularly coaches to assure best in class individual and team sales performance.
Displays uncompromised integrity.
Propagates our culture and values and the importance of winning the right way.
Customer Intimacy:
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.
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.
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.
Managing the Business:
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.
Education and Experience:
University or Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
Typically 8-10+ years' experience in sales, including success in achieving progressively higher quota and other sales goals.
Experience mentoring other sales professional and other employees.
Prefer experience leading, indirectly managing, or influencing high performing sales teams (through stretch assignments, sales engagements, virtual team projects, etc.
)Demonstrated project management skills.
Knowledge and Skills:
Strategic Leadership:
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 .