Hewlett Packard Job for an Enterprise Account Manager in Nigeria

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry leading technology company that enables customers to go further, faster.
With the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio, spanning the cloud to the data center to workplace applications, our technology and services help customers around the world make IT more efficient, more productive and more secure.

Job Title:  Enterprise Account Manager

• Builds strong professional working relationships with the client, including key IT and business executives.
• Demonstrates breadth and depth of knowledge in aligning company capabilities to client business and IT priorities, and positioning relative to competitors.
• Advocates for client needs during sales cycle and in addressing any delivery issues.
• Maintains high-level of customer loyalty and builds trust and integrity, as indicated in company-conducted surveys and reports.
• Leverages executive sponsors and other company resources to strengthen company's relationship and credibility with client influencers and decision makers.
• Researches and understands the client's industry, and develops a core understanding of client business needs and challenges.
• Uses a consultative-selling approach to identify and advance opportunities that result in profitable revenue growth for the company.

• Builds and executes an Account Business Plan (ABP) that includes both transactional and strategic initiatives to grow company's presence and share in the account.
• Actively drives ABP results through effective account management and reviews.
• Builds and orchestrates sales pipeline activity. Ensures active nurturing of deals and movement of opportunities to close.
• Nurtures and closes new solution opportunities that result in incremental orders, revenue, and margins to the company. Represents the entire company portfolio of products and services.
• Engages with Solution Opportunity Approval & Review process (SOAR)
• Protects company's position and focuses on generating new business.
• Drives integrated planning and execution; coordinates both sales and BU delivery organizations to ensure aligned client engagement and service.
• Effectively engages and leverages executive sponsors.
• Engages company sales specialists, channel and alliance partners to fully leverage company's portfolio and improve win rate of selective deals.
• Interfaces with both internal and external industry experts to anticipate client needs and facilitate solution development.
• Drives the account internationally/Globally
• Engages partners effectively to improve win rates and delivery of selected deals.
• Meets or exceeds quarterly and annual revenue & margin quotas. Uses margin management techniques
• Participates in/drives Account Team Management
• Orchestrates all company resources essential for executing the account business plan, including sponsors.
• Engages and manages team members in presales, sales specialists and inside sales to support complex deals.

• University or Bachelor's Degree; advanced degree or MBA desired
• Experience in IT industry
• Experience in vertical industry preferred
• Typically 5-8 years account management experience

• Leverages existing relationships and builds new relationships with executives in the business and in IT.
• Submits timely and accurate forecasts and continually coaches team to do same.
• Knowledge of basic financial-selling concepts in support of business cases for company solutions.
• Negotiates at the business manager and IT executive level.
• Focuses on IT business challenges and some business unit challenges to position himself/herself as a trusted advisor to IT on both internal IT and issues outside of IT where IT impacts business processes.

• Resources and leads successful dedicated global virtual teams.
• Demonstrates strong presentation and communication skills at the business manager level.
• Industry Acumen
• Moderate to high level of industry acumen; keeps current with trends and be able to participate in client planning discussions involving IT decisions.
• Adheres to SBC and company's code of ethics

• Solid knowledge of company's breadth of solutions and engages appropriate specialist resources as needed.

• Applies specialized technical product/service/ solution knowledge in working with account teams to screen and prioritize multiple leads for feasibility.
• Demonstrates high service knowledge and professionalism in researching and sharing specialty product and service related information with account teams and customers.
• Competent in the sale of IT services and outsourcing
• Uses knowledge in specialty and consultative selling skills to proactively help customers with making IT business decisions.
• Conceptualizes and articulates well-targeted solutions in area of technical specialty -- from proposal to contract sign-off