Technology & Business Development Lead at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Responsibilities:

Managing the Business

• Manages a group of Presales resources to provide account support or shared resource support.
• Resource management & Intra-Region support - Creates presales utilization plans that reflect the requirements and opportunities within area of control.
• Actively collaborates with peers to address regional presales coverage gaps and leverage technical expertise where warranted to win opportunities for the company.
• Partnering with Sales & acct. planning - Assists in planning sales strategy; collaborates within the company and with the field to prioritize, facilitate and direct the use of resources; works with Sales managers to assess sales pipelines in area of control to ensure appropriate and timely utilization of presales support.

Business acumen

• Continuously monitors, troubleshoots, and improves area-of-control operations to ensure alignment with the company's business direction, the quality of business practices, optimum organizational performance and a highly motivated presales force.
• Understands business, financial and legal concepts to develop meaningful business recommendations.
• Leading & Managing Presales People
• Coaching - Assesses and manages employee performance to ensure individual and group excellence; counsels and supports individuals through selling challenges; manages performance and results of high and low performers.
• Leadership - Models effective selling skills; motivates and supports presales teams; demonstrates a high level of support in the pursuit and closing of deals.
• People development - Nurtures and advances the talent required to maintain company presales force excellence within area of control; sponsors and directs skill building activities to increase the productivity and accomplishments of the presales force; ensures strong technical acumen across the group needed to support sales.
• Selling as a Presales Manager
• Focuses on strategic direction- understands the overall company/BU strategic direction and portfolio, and can assist sales teams in customizing solutions based on client needs.
• Consultative selling - strategizes with and coaches their team on how to apply consultative-selling techniques to advance sales opportunities; demonstrates client-sensitive practices within the account(s) and internal gate-keeping within the company to support building strategic trusted advisor status.
• Financial selling - employs a financial selling approach to meet customer needs; works with team to build business cases that link proposals to customer's goals, strategies and relevant business metrics, and that demonstrate industry and competitive proficiency.

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor's degree in Science or Engineering.
• Typically 8+ years experience in technology leadership & sales, 15+ years of total experience.
• Directly related management experience and work results including success in supporting the achievement of progressively higher quota or other sales related goals.
• Demonstrated level of project management skills.
• Additional specialized knowledge in breadth and/or depth

Knowledge and Skills:

In addition to core technical skills:

• Business Management
• Forecast/Budget Control Operations.
• Building/ Improvement.
• Resource Brokering/ Allocation.
• Management of business processes.
• Business Development
• Strategic Account Support.
• Negotiation skills within the company.
• Consultative Selling
• Presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to develop strong customer relationships.
• Consultative, solution selling and business development skills.
• Workforce Planning & Development
• Workforce Planning.
• Career Planning & Development.