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