Job Description
An Account Manager serves as the business sales lead for an HP enterprise account or
other large accounts and may act as the account lead for a substantial area of a Corporate
Account (A Corporate Account represents HP’s largest and most valued customers).
Key responsibilities include but aren’t limited to:
• Serves as the overall dedicated Account Manager for a defined account or segment of a corporate account.
• Aggressive sales leadership, representing the Enterprise Business full portfolio to drive account growth and share of wallet.
• Understands the Clients critical business priorities and supporting IT challenges; Focuses on driving value for the client while maximizing competitive share, revenue and margin for HP.
• Supported by presales, product/service specialists and inside sales support, establishes a professional working relationship (up to the executive level) with the client, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
• Tailors HP strategy and solutions to meet the needs of the customer.
• Interfaces with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitates solutions development.
• Identifies, qualifies, and closes new business that results in substantial incremental revenue and margins to HP.
• Demonstrates breadth and depth of knowledge in aligning HP capabilities to client business and IT priorities, and positioning relative to competitors.
• Builds, monitors and manages sales pipelines to ensure continuous population, forecast accuracy, achievement of quota, and movement of near- and long-term opportunities
• Develops comprehensive plans that articulate the strategies/ requirements essential for focusing sales activities, forecasting accurately, and communicating sales progress
• Coordinates different BUs and drives pricing decisions for portfolio solutions
Qualifications
Education and Experience Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree, Master of Business Administration (MBA) desired
• At least 8 years or more of corporate account management experience managing a quota in excess of x million $
• Industry expertise in one or more vertical solutions
• Experience leveraging internal sales and external channel partners & alliances to provide a total solution to the customer
• Account business planning
• Track record of building and deploying successful sales strategy
• Experience working with sales tools including Siebel
• Proven ability to build strong sales pipeline and accurately forecast business
• Strong and consistent track record of account management and sales performance
• P&L and risk management skills and experience required
• Proven sales and team leadership experience
• Prior experience managing complex sales processes including multi-country, multi-solution deals
Knowledge and Skills Required:
• Proven ability to align the client’s business needs with technology solutions.
• Highly developed business development and negotiation skills.
• Experience providing technology solutions which solve client’s key business challenges & position himself/herself as a trusted advisor with the client
• Account sales strategy and execution including usage of sales tools (Siebel, Target Account Selling (TAS,).
• Proven ability to provide timely and accurate forecasts and continually coaches team to do same
• Account/Team Leadership
• Proven experience building a business-case approach in crafting client proposals and in HP-internal requests for resource and/or investments.
• Expertise in managing end-to-end sales processes involving complex, multi country, multi-business unit deals. Industry
• Keeps abreast of industry trends as relates to opportunities to create added value for the client.
• Knowledge of industry and client’s security, risk and compliance issues.
• Strong presentation as well as verbal & written communication skills.
Application Deadline: Once Position is taken
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