Storage Sales Specialist

Storage Sales Specialist 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: Responsibilities • Responsible for sales of storage products and solutions in assigned territory, industry or accounts. • Uses advanced storage expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities. • Creates and drives the storage sales pipeline. Captures leads outside of specialization and uses closed-loop lead management to ensure assignment and follow-up by others. • Collaborates with the account pursuit teams to leverage their solutions expertise for business development. • Build sales readiness and reduces client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in storage. • Contributes to development of quota objectives and future direction for storage product lines. • Directs and coordinates supporting sales activities related to pipeline hygiene through account managers, Presales, channel partners and other relevant stakeholders. • Effectively uses internal sales tools to maintain a healthy pipeline and the account plan in a timely fashion. • Collaborates across the HPE teams to deliver a consistent approach to developing business, including account planning for end to end solutions. • Assesses solution feasibility from a technical and business perspective to determine """"qualify-in""""/""""qualify-out"""" status. • Negotiates and drives profitable deals to ensure successful closure and a high win rate. • Drives sales of the storage portfolio, using strong leadership and initiative to successfully prospect, negotiate and close deals. • Establishes a professional and consultative relationship with the client by achieving an advanced understanding of the unique business needs of the client within the industry. Works with clients up to and including the C-level for mid-to-large accounts. • Leverages advanced knowledge of competitors and industry trends to strategically position the company's products and services. • Focuses on and works with the channel to forge relationships, provide enablement of key technologies, and co-sell to end-users. • Effectively leads, evangelizes, and helps to coordinate Storage marketing campaigns (digital /new techniques) to ensure a successful launch and maintenance of the campaign momentum, in alignment with the account strategy. • Acts as a trusted storage solutions consultant for the slated accounts/region. • Reinforces and articulates HPE's strategy and portfolio to partners and champions to uncover new business opportunities and contacts, including new logos when appropriate. • Effectively uses references to craft a story that makes complex technologies seem simple and understandable for the customers • Actively generates customer interest and anticipates customer's buying trends. Links business and financial benefits with technology offerings. Illustrates the ROI & TCO advantages of HPE offerings for the customer's business. • Cultivates and maintains