Job Description

Sales Specialist Channel - Storage & Data Services (f/m/d)
This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
Who We Are:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.
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The Sales Specialists Channel are our key channel contacts, supporting our partners and their customers in finding the right solution for their business needs. In parallel they are acting as a subject matter expert for our key solutions, building up the right level of knowledge at our partners to increase our joint business across all customer segments and driving sales activities to jointly increase our funnel.
In a typical day in this role as Sales Specialist Channel - Storage & Data Services you

• Serve as a trusted advisor and Storage expert to selected Platinum and Gold Partners in Switzerland.
• Demonstrate business and sales leadership by building mutually beneficial relationships with the partner on all levels to grow HPE Storage market share.
• Drive Storage revenues, profitability, and pipeline by growing your assigned partner, implementing joint sales activities and data-driven sales efforts with the partner.
• Qualify and review new leads to drive sales opportunities to closure.
• Work with partners/ outside sales to ensure a smooth sales transaction.
• Manage all HPE resources as they relate to supporting the partner mission and communicates value of the solutions to better differentiate HPE from competitors.
• Build targeted sales pipeline and forecast data driven sales activities.
• Coordinate activities with the Partner, including sales cadence, education, proactive forecasting, business planning, and client engagements.

If you are...

• Good at partnering, innovating, driving sales and making things happen? Good start, you are aligned to our core values!

If you have these Skills, Expertise, Attitude and Education...

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in any field (preferably IT/economics)
• Typically, 10+ years of selling experience at end-user account or partner level
• Profound knowledge of HPE's storage solutions and excellent skills to pitch our solutions in front of partners and customers
• Profound experience in developing positive relationships and solving customer problems
• Ability to look forward and anticipate partner needs, proactively forecasting sales quota and effectively bridging sales gaps
• Profound account management, acquisition, retention and development skills
• Proven track record in channel, partner, alliance management is clearly advantageous
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to prioritize and effectively meet deadlines
• Innovative mindset to think beyond proscribed solutions, and take proactive steps to advance HPE's sales efforts
• Proficient usage skills in a CRM system to manage business relationships and the data and information associated with them
• Business fluent German language skills, plus excellent command of English

Join us and make your mark!
We offer:

• Competitive salary and extensive benefits package
• Work-life balance (flexible working time and hybrid workplace model, car allowance, 25 vacation days, four HPE Wellness-Fridays, up to six months paid parental leave)
• Support for education, training, and career development
• Diverse and dynamic work environment

HPE is:

• Ranked 9th on Fortune's 2023 list
• Ranked 5th on Newsweek's list of

2024 * Named a
for the eighth year in row * Recognized as one of the
by Seramount in 2023 * Ranked in the Top 3 in the
in 2025 for the twelfth time (FKi Hall of Fame member)
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Additional Skills: Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Assertiveness, Bias, Building Rapport, Buyer Personas, Coaching, Complex Sales, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Interactions, Design Thinking, Empathy, Financial Acumen, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Industry Knowledge, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
Personal & Professional Development
We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have -- whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
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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Job: Sales
Job Level: Expert
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