Senior Transactional Sales Leader - Latin America

Transactional Sales Leader - Latin America This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

This role will manage a group of sales professionals focused on the growth of HPE Networking's Transactional (SMB and Mid-Market customer segment) Business. The role will primarily focus on delivering quota set for the Latin America region with the Americas GTM sales motion. The role will have individuals reporting in multiple functions (direct or virtual) including Business Development Managers, Channel Managers, Distribution Development Managers, and dotted line engagement with Marketing. Responsible for setting the direction and managing the deliverables of the assigned sales team and achieving revenue and expense objectives. Resolves customer problems and participates in important negotiations with key customers/partners. Where appropriate, seeks to build strategic executive relationships externally with clients/partners and internally within company, and partners with internal and external resources to develop best-in-class solutions for the customer. Manages the performance of individual contributors and the team overall and grows and develops talent within the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership to team on overall sales strategy, cost optimization, and disciplined process management (pipeline review, asset management, demo sales achievement, etc.)
• Accountable for business growth and achieves overall metrics (revenue, gross margin, market penetration, installed base
  retention, cost control, customer satisfaction, workforce dashboards, etc.).
• Coordinates all company sales activities in the area-of-control.
• Sets quota and goals for organizations.
• Develops tactics to generate new sales
• Drives, supports and influences BU business models, go-to-market strategies, and sales/marketing initiatives.
• Ensures optimum sales coverage through direct and partner sales resources.
• Develops sales resources and management talent to ensure a pipeline of qualified sales talent to support future growth.
• Manages complex organizations to achieve results for the company, partners, and clients.
• Builds lasting, consultative relationships with customer accounts.
• Coach and support sales teams and leadership in developing key and/or difficult account opportunities
• Builds long-term growth strategies.
• Demonstrates thought leadership by directing the customer's application of technology to new business problems.
• Develops, implements and executes the consultative, solution selling capabilities in their organization to develop compelling business cases to differentiate and highlight the value of the company's broad portfolio.
• Provides the business rationale and risk assessment for making company investments in their business, market, or segment.
• Provides external leadership to industry, community, press.
• Ensures resource deployment encompasses end-to-end selling support (solution partners, SE, DBMs/PBMs, ISR, resellers, etc).
• Plans for growth, acquires and manages talent, executes on growth strategies, and keeps field selling costs within industry benchmarks.

Education and Experience Required:

• University or bachelor’s degree required, advanced university or Master's degree preferred.
• Achieved planned financial results within a business at a region/area, business segment, or industry level.
• Acted as a sales executive in a global company responsible for sales achievement and operational efficiency.
• Managed large deal pursuits involving multiple solution components and partners in support.
• 10-15 year’s experience in multiple sales functions, regions, or business models resulting in broad business knowledge and how to drive a P&L.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strategic sales planning & implementation - Orchestrates the development of strategic sales plans that reflect the company's business strategy, to advance market share/penetration, and achieve profitable growth.
• Budget Management & Cost Optimization - Establishes, tracks and enforces spending parameters to protect the company's business and sales assets, and ensures their effective engagement.
• P&L Management - Sets and manages the business investments and resource allocations essential to ensuring the financial growth & health of the corporation.
• Vertical Industry Acumen - Develops and exercises a profound understanding of business dynamics within area of control, as a basis for informed business decision making.
• Workforce Planning - Builds acquisition and development strategies targeted to ensuring workforce readiness, and market opportunity responsiveness.
• Execution Management - Collaborates effectively with the company's BUs and value chain partners to ensure operational responsiveness to challenges, and alignment with business imperatives. Acts decisively once decision is taken.
• C-Level Partnering - Contributes to enduring executive relationships that establish the company's consultative professionalism and promotes its total solution capabilities at the highest levels of the client's organization. Acts as the escalation point for customer issues.
• Competitive Positioning/Strategy - Uses competitive intelligence in account planning and sales activities to develop counter strategies that will neutralize competitive influence on the customer's buying decisions.
• Business and Financial Acumen - Exhibits authoritative business and financial acumen to develop meaningful business recommendations; Understands the portfolio aspect of the company's products/services and how the businesses work together. Understands the balance sheet drivers of channel partners and balances with company requirements.
• Change Management - Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.
• Problem Solving - Approaches problems in a rational manner using sound strategies that ensure comprehensive understanding and effective resolution.
• Global Presence - Represents the company on global accounts with the cultural sensitivity and business maturity appropriate to the high degree of corporate access and level of responsibility involved.
• Leadership - Able to lead effectively in a complex and political environment and deliver results; Able to influence without direct authority; Able to balance between competing priorities and be flexible and creative; Able to drive team performance to best in class; Able to create and build highly effective sales teams and organization; Able to communicate effectively across multiple levels in client organizations, the company and the industry.

Accessibility

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Health & Wellbeing

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Personal & Professional Development

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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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Manager_2 "The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 286,000 - 607,000 in California // 250,500 - 607,000 in Florida
This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 50%/50%."

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