SASE Sales Specialist Israel

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation 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:

   

Job Family Definition:

Sales Specialists & Consultants are experts in products, services, software, or solutions, responsible for leading pursuits in their assigned focus areas. They collaborate with and support Account Managers, providing specialist expertise within the sales team. They drive proactive campaigns to build the pipeline, using specialized knowledge and skills to prospect, qualify, negotiate, and close opportunities. They may have named accounts allocated, cover a designated geography, or be assigned to a high-potential, competitive attack account.

Management Level Definition:

Applies advanced subject matter knowledge to solve complex business issues and is regarded as a subject matter expert. Frequently contributes to the development of new ideas and methods. Works on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors. Leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Acts as an expert providing direction and guidance to process improvements and establishing policies. Frequently represents the organization to external customers/clients. Exercises significant independent judgment within broadly defined policies and practices to determine the best method for accomplishing work and achieving objectives. May provide mentoring and guidance to lower-level employees.

Responsibilities:

Create and drive the sales pipeline. Capture leads outside of specialization and use closed-loop lead management to ensure assignment and follow-up by others.Maintain knowledge of competitors in accounts to strategically position the company's products and services better.Use specialty expertise to seek out new opportunities and expand and enhance existing opportunities to build the pipeline and drive pursuit.Provide support to Account Managers and input regarding business development and solution expertise.Develop quota objectives and future direction for defined product categories.Some specialists are also responsible for selling outsourcing deals.Establish a professional, working, and consultative relationship with the client, up to and including the C-level for mid-to-large accounts, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.Invest time working with and leveraging external partners to deliver sales.For Services Consultants: Focus on growing contractual renewals for mid-to-large accounts with more complexity, to higher total contract-value renewals.Direct or coordinate supporting sales activities.

Education and Experience Required:

University or Bachelor's degree.Directly related previous work experience.Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quotas, diversity of business customers, and higher-level customer interfaces.Extensive selling experience within the industry and on similar products.Typically 8-12 years of advanced sales experience.Project management skills required.2-3 years of product sales in the desired specialty.Hebrew and English bilingual level.

Knowledge and Skills:

Expert knowledge of products, solutions, or service offerings as well as competitors' offerings 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 the area of specialization and how the company'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 and maintains positive relationships with customers to ensure account retention and growth, positioning the company as the preferred vendor for meeting all business needs.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, solutions, or service offerings, as well as competitors' offerings.Understands how to leverage the company's portfolio and change the playing field against competitors.Utilizes Siebel as an expert and accurately forecasts business.Understands and sells high-value software solutions.Understands the selling of services.Leverages services as part of strategic product sales.Maintains expertise in industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.Maintains expertise on IT at all levels - new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of CIOs, typical objectives, measures, and metrics.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning (Inactive), Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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Job:

Sales

Job Level:

Expert

    

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