Employment Nigeria 01-Jan-1970 NIGERIA , NIGERIA ,
Job Title: TS Partner Sales Specialist
Location: Nigeria
Job No: 532931
Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Experienced
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No
Job Description
-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 partners 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, and influencing, 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
-Carries quota at least 50 percent more than the average local/country/ regional quota per account mgr ratio
-Primary focus for partners sales on SMB segment
Qualifications
-University or Bachelors degree
-Typically 8-12 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. Dimensions include competitive positioning and business models
-Thorough understanding of HPs organization and 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 HPs products, software, and services.
-Able to communicate the strengths of HPs offerings relative to competition, and overcome objections
-Effectively sells HP offerings by building strategic relationships with partner decision makers aligning partner and HP processes and promoting HP programs and offerings
-Develops strategic plans with the partner to grow the size of the business and HPs share
-Partners effectively with others in the account to ensure coordinated efficient account management.
-Ability to motivate partners 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 and other sales teams members
Critical Competencies to Drive Business Results:
Alliance, Partner Business Development
Expands partner business to advance HPs mindshare and partners value add
Alliance, Partner Selling Support
Contributes the support essential for successfully pursuing and winning customer facing opportunities for the partner and HP
Alliance, Partner Business Transformation
Collaborates with partners to transform their business vision and relationship with HP
Alliance, Partner Relationship Building
Develops enduring partner business relationships based on trust, professionalism, and responsive support in line with HPs standards of business conduct
Alliance, Partner Business Intelligence
Develops a solid knowledge of partners as the cornerstone of a mutually beneficial HP partner business relationship
Account Management Effectiveness
Account Planning. Sales Pipeline Collaboration and Margin Management
Sales Effectiveness Fundamentals
HP Tools and Resource Utilization, Business and Offers, Organizational Collaboration
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