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.
HP is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Enterprise Group - Partner Sales Specialist
Ref. Code: 1361143
Location: Lagos
Job Descriptions
- Serves as the expert to the partner for extremely complex information regarding product, services, and software transitions, promotions, and configurations.
- Promotes HP offerings to become a key part of the partner's business and solutions; May be brought by partner to sell HP brand to end-customers
- Establishes and maintains account plans to promote sales growth
- Achieves assigned quota for HP products, services and software.
- Transactional and relationship selling working within a team of selling professionals
- Creates, fills-in and manages HP funnel for deals with partners and transforms potential leads into joint sales activities.
- Actively engages HP resources and senior executives to build strategic relationships with the partner which ensures long-term business opportunities for HP.
- Provides the business rationale and risk assessment for making HP investments in the partner.
- Ensures partners are compliant with legal and SBC practices
- May drive SOW growth with distributors who are managing small partners on behalf of HP
- May recruit and develop business relationship with new partners
- Primary focus for partners sales on SMB segment
Qualifications
Education and Experience Required:
- University or Bachelor's Degree
- Typically 5 years of selling experience at end-user account or partner level
- Experience selling to partners in a complex environment
Knowledge and Skills Required
- Thorough understanding of the IT industry, competing vendors, and the channel.
- Thorough understanding of HP's organization & operations, including key business rules, and alignment with HP GBU go-to-market strategies, partner segmentation, key programs & initiatives, structure and business model.
- Thorough understanding of HP's products, software, and services. Ability to communicate the strengths of HP's offerings relative to competition
- Effectively sells HP offerings by building strategic relationships with partner decision makers. Aligning partner and HP processes. Promoting HP programs and offerings
- Develops strategic plans with the partner to grow the size of the business and HP's share
- Partners effectively with others in the account to ensure coordinated efficient account management. Ability to motivate partner's sales force
- Coordinates and directs efforts across HP sales teams and across business groups
- Thorough understanding of pipeline management discipline and ability to explain benefits to partners/other sales teams members
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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