Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. The SLED Partner Business Manager serves as a trusted adviser to partners, driving revenue and profitability through joint business plans and data-driven sales efforts, while building relationships and aligning strategies with partners in the SLED segment.
Responsibilities:
- Serves as a trusted advisor and expert to the Partner (e.g. Value Added Reseller (VAR), Distributor, SI, ISV, Managed Service Provider) on where to play within emerging trends in Partner's ecosystem in alignment with HPE business priorities
- Works with the Partner to create a mutually beneficial plan for the future
- Drives end-to end HPE revenue, profitability, and pipeline by creating joint business plans and leading data-driven sales efforts with the Partner
- Articulates both HPE global and local business strategies to effectively "sell with," "sell to," and "sell through" the Partner, creating a scalable selling ecosystem
- Tailors solutions to influence the broader Partner ecosystem
- Develops thorough knowledge of partner priorities, industry trends, IT landscape, IT investment strategy, HPE priorities, and HPE Technology and communicates value of the portfolios and solutions to better differentiate HPE from competitors
- Demonstrates business and sales leadership by building mutually beneficial, executive-level relationships with one or many Partners to grow HPE market share
- Coordinates and executes HPE activities with the Partner, leveraging HPE specialists when needed, including sales cadence, education, marketing, executive briefings, proactive forecasting, business planning, and client engagements
- Drives HPE marketing strategy through the customer
- Drives account mapping process with the Partner and HPE Sales teams to align field sales
- Promotes increased value to HPE for pipeline and revenue/profit growth while leveraging the collective strength of the partner ecosystem
- Leads and implements HPE strategy, programs, and systems with and on behalf of the Partner to assure accelerated financial outcomes and build partner loyalty to HPE
- Influences Partner to drive increased number of sellers, Solution Architects, and other Partner resources to HPE portfolio
- Tailors selling solutions to fit the needs of the partner's customer profile including HPE products, services and technology alliances to achieve assigned quota
- May recruit and develop business relationships with new partners, working to increase partner commitment to HPE
- May spend time monitoring Partner sales floor to help develop pipeline
- Works to ensure that partners are aware of, and compliant with, HPE's SBC requirements for Partners, including applicable legal obligations