HP Software Territory Account Manager at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Nigeria

Hewlett Packard (HP) is the largest technology solutions provider in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and worldwide. The company's offerings span from IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices to global services, imaging and printing. Our customers are virtually everybody: consumers, small and medium sized companies, large corporations as well as Government institutions.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Nigeria is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: HP Software Territory Account Manager
Job Reference: 1288736

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Schedule - Full-time
Job Type - Experienced
Shift - Day Job
Travel - Yes, 50 % of the Time

Description

• Seek out new opportunities and expands and enhances existing opportunities to build and manage the pipeline for HP Software.
• Maintain knowledge of competitors in account to strategically position HP's software products and services better.
• Develop pursuit plans and manage the pipeline to ensure alignment with account managers.
• Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
• Contributes to proposal development, negotiations and deal closings.
• Work closely with and support account manager, providing technical expertise and support, and participating in client engagements up to C-level engagements for more complex solutions in smaller accounts.
• Interface with both internal and external/industry experts to anticipate customer needs and facilitate solutions development.
• Build sales readiness and reduce client learning curve through effective knowledge transfer in area of specialization.

Scope and Impact:

• May coordinate internal & external partners to deliver appropriate solution sale.
• Establishes relationships with customer/partner at all organizational levels; able to interface with senior levels in internal and external groups.
• Sub-Sahara Africa

Qualifications

• Education and Experience Required:
• University or Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Directly related previous work experience (software sales).
• Both vertical industry & partner knowledge required.
• Typically 5-8 years advanced sales experience required.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Is considered an expert in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings to be able to sell large solutions.
• Understands the industry and market segment in which key accounts are situated, and integrates this knowledge into consultative selling.
• Understands and applies program/project management methods and processes to define, plan, cost, resource, track and ensure successful pursuit.
• Understands the role of IT within area of specialization and how HP's solutions differentially address specific vertical industry challenges as well as their cross-segment capabilities
• Account planning and accurate account revenue forecasting skills.
• Collaborates with management and sales teams in shared accounts to ensure seamless integration of specialist sales with other sales activities.
• Cultivates & maintains positive relationships with customers to ensure account retention & growth, and position HP as the preferred vendor for meeting all business needs
• Excellent project management skills.
• Establishes a professional working relationship, up to the executive level, with the client.
• Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving specialty sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.
• Demonstrates high service or product knowledge and professionalism in researching and sharing service-related information with account teams and customers.
• Deep knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings.
• Understands how to leverage HP's portfolio and change the playing field on our competitors.
• Utilizes Siebel as an expert and accurately forecasts business.
• Understands and sells high value software solutions
• Understands selling of services sales.
• Leverages services as part of strategic product sales.
• Maintain expertise of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.
• Maintains expertise on IT at all levels - new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO's, typical objectives, measures, metrics.

Application Closing Date
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