Africa Hub Sales Manager at Hewlett Packard - HP

Ref No: 3071785
Job: Sales
Shift: No shift premium (South Africa)

Job Description

• In this role you will be a part of the End User Southern Africa organization , working closely with both local and regional teams.
• You will be the key point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders , with a key focus on growing this strategic area of business via our Hub Sales organization.
• Role is open for candidates based in Morocco, South Africa and Nigeria.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates/Owns account plans for strategic commercial accounts in the account planning process
• Focuses on larger deals/opportunities and value and/or volume portfolio management, and selling a range of HP products and solutions.
• Uses specialty to leverage existing opportunities and branch into more than one BU in the account.
• Establishes a professional working relationship (up to the executive level) with clients, and develops a core understanding of the unique business needs.
• Engages partners effectively to improve win rates on selective deals.
• Builds growth opportunities using the account planning process; actively manages planning process through scheduled reviews and updates.
• Generates leads for HP volume products and certain value products and collaborates with other specialists or partners as needed.
• Responsible for achieving/managing quarterly, half yearly or yearly quota.
• Enters opportunities in pipeline tools and updates them weekly. Recommends and Implements Pipeline management practices.
• Sell solutions that include hardware, software and services.
• Build and deploy a territory account plan that includes working with partners, specialists.
• Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies in full ownership of the account or in partial ownership depending on account coverage.
• Acts as a first interface for international accounts in collaboration with members of global business teams, and local teams.
• Identifies customer requirements, matches with HP capabilities and chooses respective HP supply chain accordingly (Direct or Indirect).
• Reviews and designs sales policy and strategy.

Education and Experience Required

• University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Has deep knowledge of basic enhanced products, solution and service offerings as well as competitors' offerings.
• Extensive vertical industry knowledge and advanced degree of selling skills.
• Typically 5-8 years of experience as referenced above.
• Account management experience required.
• Experience in product specialty (computers, printers, servers, storage).

Knowledge and Skills:

• Broad understanding of the customer's needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs.
• Ability to coordinate internal and external partners to deliver appropriate solution sale.
• Able to interface with senior levels in internal HP and external, client and partner groups.
• Knows when to adjust business plans based on account and industry segment opportunities.
• Use consultative selling skills to proactively help customer's with making IT business decisions.
• Partner organization intelligence aligned with partner management skills.
• Conceptualizes and articulates well-targeted solutions in area of specialty - from proposal to contract sign off.
• Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to HP solutions.
• Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on a solution basis.
• Excels in competitive selling skills.
• Needs a good understanding of the channel and how to partner.