HPEN Channel Manager

HPEN Channel Manager

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

Management Level Definition: Applies advanced subject matter expertise to lead teams in resolving business and technical issues within established policies. Manages exempt individual contributors and/or supervisors, with accountability for program results, including cost, direction, and people management.

Drives process improvements aligned with business strategy, oversees operational activities, and supports the recruitment and development of team members. Typically reports to an MG2 or Director.

Additional guidance/criteria

Manages and controls activities within a single country or a sub-region which is part of a larger geographical region; manages at least 4 employees and typically between 8 and 15 direct reports. Span of control guidelines may differ from these numbers.

We are looking for a highly specialized manager with strong networking expertise rather than a channel-focused profile. The ideal candidate should possess a solid technical background and hands-on experience working closely with end users and customers.

Preference will be given to candidates with previous experience as a Solutions Architect , Technical Sales Specialist , Pre-Sales Engineer , or similar customer-facing technical roles within a comparable industry.

The individual should be capable of leading technical discussions, understanding complex networking environments, and translating business requirements into technology solutions while effectively managing and developing a team.

Sales Managers

Leads and develops a high-performing sales team aligned with HPE’s strategy and growth objectives. Drives revenue, profitability, and customer success through effective talent management, coaching, and resource allocation. Builds executive relationships with key customers, creates new business opportunities, and supports teams in developing winning technical and commercial strategies.

Oversees sales execution, forecasting, major customer engagements, and cross-functional collaboration to remove barriers and achieve business goals.

Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

• Leads the sales community to success.
• Communicates effectively to set direction for the team in line with the company’s vision and strategy. Inspires the team to meet and exceed goals.
• Manages the HPE sales motion strategy and deployment towards growth and increased profitability.
• Creates a high performing team through recruiting, developing and retaining talent.
• Organizes the team and adapts the resource mix to maximize the collective team’s and HPE’s achievement, market coverage and financial performance.
• Actively and regularly coaches to assure best in class individual and team sales performance.
• Displays uncompromised integrity.
• Propagates our culture and values and the importance of winning the right way.

Customer Intimacy:

• Orchestrates major Enterprise-level customer engagements for HPE to make sure we deliver results through the best customer experience in the industry.
• Acts as role model for the sales community by displaying will to win and action oriented leadership, and by holding customers in the center.
• Manages escalations to solution, and solution to opportunity. Drives a hunting mentality. Engages with key customer executives (CEO, CFO, COO) to understand the customers’ business context and build trust.
• Coaches and guides team members to develop and deliver HPE’s value proposition in line with the customer's business priorities.
• Creates early stage opportunities by managing top customers’ executive level relationships.
• Coaches and enables teams to craft the right technical, IT investment, pricing and sales strategies to win.
• Partners with stakeholders (channel, categories, HR, legal, other sales teams) across business units to maximize customer success and team efficiency across HPE.
• Helps teams to bust barriers and overcome obstacles.

Managing the Business:

• Establishes sales methodology for end-to-end sales process management, with clear roles and responsibilities in each stage of the sales process.
• Manages strategic and tactical sales planning at both segment and account levels. Follows up to ensure consistent execution.
• Provides timely and accurate sales forecasts and outlooks for customer and market dynamics.
• Provides structured customer feedback, competitive assessments and won/lost deal analysis into category, R&D, strategy & planning and sales teams to promote learning.

Education and Experience:

• University or Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent experience.
• Typically 8-10+ years’ experience in sales, including success in achieving progressively higher quota and other sales goals.
• Experience mentoring other sales professional and other employees.
• Prefer experience leading, indirectly managing, or influencing high performing sales teams (through stretch assignments, sales engagements, virtual team projects, etc.)
• Demonstrated project management skills.

Knowledge and Skills

Strategic Leadership:

• Deploys Purpose and Vision: Understands HPE's vision and strategy. Aligns and translates them into the team’s vision, purpose, and clear goals.
• Strategic Thinking: Understands how to best deploy the business model, individual and team strengths to the most impactful opportunities or challenges. Coaches and guides the direct and indirect team to consider each deal's impact to HPE's long term success. Leads the team to determine how HPE adds value to our customer and our customer's customers.
• Leads through Change: Embraces business changes; directs and enables shifts within the team.
• Inspires the Team: Engages and energizes team members to achieve team goals and realize their individual potential.
• Builds Teams: Creates and supports a high performing team through attracting, hiring, developing, promoting, and retaining best in class talent. Plans resource allocation and aligns talent to opportunities, to maximize the effectiveness of the coverage model.
• Develops Talent: Coaches, mentors, and develops talent to maximize individual and team performance. Acts as an advisor helping teams navigate unusual deal situations while encouraging learning.
• Integrity: Wins the right way and displays high ethical standards in every action.

Customer Intimacy:

• Builds Long-Term Customer/Partner Relationships: Understands the customer's or partner's strategy and business needs and positions HPE as a partner invested in the customer's/channel partner's long term business outcomes, leveraging HPE’s portfolio.
• HPE Portfolio Knowledge: Builds and continually updates an understanding of the full portfolio of HPE products, solutions, and service offerings - their value propositions, competitive differentiators, and benefits to our customers. Guides the team to define the solutions roadmap for the customer and articulate targeted solutions to add value to the client.
• IT Industry Acumen: Builds and maintains up-to-date knowledge of IT industry developments and technology trends with potential impacts to our customers.
• Vertical/Industry Knowledge preferred: Understands industry drivers, t