Sales Manager

Sales Manager
This 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 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.
Job Description:
Job Family Definition:
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.
Management Level Definition:
Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to manage staff activities in solving common and complex business/technical issues within established policies. Manages non-exempt/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.
Sales Manager – Transactional Sales
Lead and develop a high performing sales team to drive revenue growth through disciplined sales execution, strong pipeline management, operational excellence and effective demand generation.
Sales Target Ownership:
Deliver revenue, margin and volume targets through high-velocity transactional sales.
Sales Execution: Drive day-to-day sales execution, ensuring strong conversion, deal closure and achievement of targets.
Pipeline Management: Maintain a healthy pipeline, track opportunities and improve conversion rates and sales velocity.
Partner/Customer Management: Manage relationships with transactional partners, resellers and customers to maximise sales opportunities.
Demand Generation: Drive promotions, campaigns, bundles and sales plays that generate immediate demand and accelerate sell-through.
Forecasting: Provide accurate weekly/monthly sales forecasts and proactively manage gaps against target.
Performance Management: Track KPIs such as revenue, bookings, margin, conversion, average deal size, win rate and sales velocity.
Sales Productivity: Improve sales processes, tools and routines to increase productivity and reduce sales-cycle time.
Channel Coverage: Identify gaps in customer/partner coverage and ensure sufficient sales reach across priority segments.
Cross-functional Execution: Work closely with marketing, distribution, operations and finance to maximise sales.
Team Leadership: Coach the sales team, establish clear targets and create a strong accountability and performance culture.
Operational Excellence: Ensure disciplined CRM usage, accurate reporting, timely follow-up and consistent sales processes.
Growth Opportunities: Identify new products, customers, partners and routes to market that can generate incremental revenue.
Business Management.
Strategic Planning- Translates business goals into actionable plans and strategies that reflect the requirements and opportunities within area-of-control Aligns area-of-control account and market opportunities with upstream strategic plans and metrics. Sets sales priorities and establishing these as the focus of individual or sales team activities.
Execution- Actively manages business plans to meet revenue goals/quotes and advance the business interests of the company. Determines if an opportunity is profitable for the company.
Forecast/Budget Control- Tracks and manages rolling forecasts and budgets to ensure timely and accurate roll-ups.
Pipeline Management- Builds, monitors and orchestrates sales pipelines to ensure continuous population of near- and long-term opportunities Balances quick wins against longer sales-cycle opportunities to ensure both immediate wins and long-term profitability for the company.
Operations Building/Improvement- Continuously monitors, troubleshoots and improves area-of-control operations to ensure alignment with the company's business direction, the quality of business practices, optimum organizational performance and a highly motivated sales force.
Workforce Management & Development.
Supervision- Assesses and manages employee performance to ensure individual and group excellence Builds individual and group commitment to business goals and personal excellence.
Coaching- Personally develops employee performance to ensure individual and group excellence. Coaches and develops sales personnel in such activities as solution selling or relationship building. Reviews, brainstorms, validates, and troubleshoots selling strategies for individuals & account teams.
Skill Development/Enhancement- Sponsors and directs skill building activities to increase the productivity and accomplishments of the sales force.
Workforce Planning- Actively monitors, identifies and addresses sales and resource capability gaps within area-of-control Manages "span of control" issues to ensure such goals as adequate account coverage, employee retention, effective succession planning, and optimum implementation of workforce re- alignment models.
Career Planning and Development- Nurtures and advances the talent required to maintain the company's sales force excellence within area-of-control.
Strategic Business Planning.
Manages the top- and bottom-line - monitors discounts and margins involved in individual deals to align them with group performance.
Works with others to create mechanisms that shift the focus from "low- hanging," immediate wins to recognizing and providing incentives for large deals/wins.
Understands industry drivers and the customer base better to bridge company solutions with account-relevant problems and opportunities.
Builds stronger internal relationships with other groups to ensure seamless selling of total company solutions and to establish clear expectations for resource alignment and support.