Hyperscale Field Account Sales - Bay Area Job Opening

Hyperscale Field Account Sales - Bay Area

Lenovo

Santa Clara, California
Category: Sales Specialist

Position Description:
We are seeking a Field Account Sales Representative for our Hyperscale business in the San Francisco - Bay Area. This person will be responsible for the following:

  • Sell Lenovo solutions to Hyperscale clients coordinating design and build with Lenovo’s Hyperscale organization.
  • Manage sales territory and account engagements to ensure sufficient opportunities to meet and exceed quota targets
  • Build and maintain relationships with Account decision makers and decision influencers, key business partners and influencers in the territory
  • Work closely with other Lenovo sales teams and product and support organizations to position Lenovo value, achieve revenue objectives and maintain customer satisfaction
  • Conversant in market and customer business requirements and trends for the Hyperscale market and maintains market and competitive knowledge to ensure credibility with Customers
  • Educate customers on Lenovo’s technology and develops a working knowledge of Lenovo’s Data Center Infrastructure offerings
  • Understand and effectively communicate the value of Lenovo solutions to customers within the Hyperscale market
  • Conceptualize, develop and storyboard industry and technical presentations to all levels of the organization
  • Deliver technical updates and road maps to C -level executives while maintaining and forecasting account engagement information in Salesforce.com
  • Develop long term sales pipeline and relationships to increase Lenovo’s market share
  • Create and grow reference customers
  • Set direction for business development and solution replication.
  • Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis. May act as a dedicated resource to one or just a few strategic accounts.
  • Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, including the C-level by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
  • Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish Lenovo’s consultative professionalism and promote its total capabilities
  • Maintain expertise on typical budgets, objectives, measures, and metrics of the customer’s leadership team.

Scope and Impact

  • Work on broad range of accounts and prospects driving strategic (long term) value to Lenovo
  • Significant percentage of time spent directly with customer interfaces with all levels and team members supporting those accounts.
  • Direct time with customer's technical buyers as well as Procurement
  • May interface with Ecosystem partners as necessary
Position Requirements:
  • 7+ years of technical sales experience required ; Account Manager, Server Sales Specialist and/or Sales Engineer.
  • 7-10 years of sales in server products
  • Experience in the strategic selling of future and current technologies
  • Ability to create quarterly business plans
  • Integrity, willingness to provide feedback in challenging situations
  • Project Management Skills required
  • B.S./B.A. or equivalent training