Account Manager

Account Manager
This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 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 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:
Manages several larger reseller partners. Understands the partner’s business objectives, priorities, requirements and challenges, and adds value by implementing HPE’s strategy. Drives business performance for all HPE BUs and manages the portfolio mix to optimize profitability of the account. Accountable for pipeline building; joint strategic initiatives and corporate relationships. Builds and develops relevant customer relationship networks via partners. Develops and engages with the extended partner ecosystem to maximize HPE’s presence. Constantly develops information technology industry knowledge to position HPE’s portfolio in the market. Orchestrates, engages, guides and provides feedback to the extended account team members. Acts as partner’s advocate inside HPE. Plans for accounts to deliver results through the financial year and beyond.
Applies developed subject matter knowledge to solve common and complex business issues and recommends appropriate alternatives. Works on problems of diverse complexity and scope. May act as a team or project leader providing direction to team activities and facilitates information validation and team decision making process. Exercises independent judgment to identify and select a solution. Ability to handle most unique situations. May seek advice in order to make decisions on complex business issues.
Responsibilities:
Articulates a connection between the partner's core KPIs
Builds and executes a plan to drive growth and profitability across HPE's portfolio. Drives growth in HPE's strategic value portfolio through positioning these solutions with the partner. Leverages HPE programs and tools (e.g. Executive Sponsors
Engages with the partner to identify opportunities. Translates customers' business challenges and goals into IT opportunities. Ensures a strong and rightsized pipeline funnel from the account team. Leads pipeline building activities for the account
Develops and maintains a professional relationship network within the partner to maximize efficiency and effectiveness for HPE. Understands and leverages the underlying principles for the partner organization's functioning. Defines an engagement model with the partner's key influencers and decision makers.
Develops and maintains an overview of the partner's landscape. Develops partner relationships. Works with the HPE Distributor Business Manager to assess and update the distributor strategy for the account.
Develops and updates expertise in IT technology. Articulates relevant modern trends in IT. Describes HPE's portfolio and references its use in other partners and customers.
Builds relationship and runs a regular account governance with the extended account team. Provides feedback to the account team members and relevant managers.
Utilizes HPE tools and processes for partner advocacy. Leverages the existing tools
Builds and executes basic account business plans for defined accounts. Manages the collective effort to build and maintain both strategic and tactical elements of the plan. Shares and aligns the plan with relevant stakeholders of the partner.
Education and Experience:
University or Bachelor's Degree preferred
Typically 3-5+ years sales experience.
Account management experience desired.
Experience in IT industry preferred. Experience working within IT department and/or within resellers/customers is a plus.
Experience in vertical industry preferred.
Knowledge and Skills:
Drives Results: Shows strong will to win, is persistent in face of obstacles and has a clear results orientation.
Strategic Planning: Able to articulate a vision for the future and a path to achieve it in an account business plan, aligned with the HPE strategy, direct leadership, and the HPE business units.
Sales Execution: Able to efficiently deliver on short term sales engagements and objectives.
Continuous Learning: Continuously and actively pursues own learning.
IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains solid knowledge of cutting edge IT industry developments and technology trends with potential impacts to our customers.
HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates a solid understanding of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings - their value propositions, competitive differentiators, and benefits to our customers and our customers' customers.
Team Leadership: Able to lead teams (including dispersed and indirect team members) successfully through sales engagements in a complex matrix organization.
Network/Relationship Building: Able to create strong professional relationships; understands and leverages the value of networks and collaboration.
Two-way communication: Able to listen actively to understand the perspectives of others, and to articulate value propositions, plans, and proposals in language relevant to the customer, partner or internal stakeholder.
Influencing and Negotiating: Understands and proficiently leverages influencing and negotiation techniques.
Business Acumen: Understands how different parts of a business interoperate to produce business outcomes and how actions impact company results. Has a developed understanding of general business concepts and the economy. Able to understand financial reports and make relevant conclusions for planning. Similar principles apply to public sector organizations.
Operational Exce