Partner Business Manager - Central Africa at Hewlett Packard (HP)

Partner Business Manager – Central Africa at Hewlett Packard (HP)

Hewlett Packard (HP)

Hewlett Packard (HP) Recruitment Partner Business Manager – Central Africa. Please ensure you read through the job requirements before applying for this position.

Hewlett Packard (HP) is the largest technology solutions provider in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and worldwide. The company’s offerings span from IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices to global services, imaging and printing. Our customers are virtually everybody: consumers, small and medium-sized companies, large corporations as well as Government institutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Partner Business Manager – Central Africa

Job ID: 3068364
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Category: Sales

Responsibilities

  • Serves as the expert to the partner for complex information regarding product, services, and software transitions, promotions, and configurations.
  • Educates and updates partners on new HP technologies or solutions. May be brought in by partners to sell HP brand to end customers.
  • Establishes and maintains account plans to promote sales growth.
  • Achieves assigned quota for HP products, services, and software.
  • Transactional and relationship selling working within a team of selling professionals.
  • Creates, fills-in and manages HP funnel for deals with partners and transforms potential leads into joint sales activities.
  • Establishes relationship with partner at all organization levels including senior executives.
  • Ensures partners are compliant with legal and SBC practices.
  • May drive SOW growth with distributors who are managing small partners on behalf of HP.
  • May recruit and develop business relationships with new partners.

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Education and Experience Required

  • University or Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • Typically 5-8 years of selling experience at end-user account or partner level.
  • Solid experience in selling to partners in a complex environment.

Knowledge and Skills:

  • Solid understanding of the IT industry, competing vendors, and the channel. Dimensions include competitive positioning.
  • Solid understanding of HP’s organization & operations, including key business rules, and alignment with HP GBU go-to-market strategies, partner segmentation, key programs & initiatives, structure.
  • Solid understanding of many of HP’s products, software, and services. Able to communicate the strengths of HP’s offerings, and overcome objections.
  • Effectively sells HP offerings by building strategic relationships with partner decision makers; and promoting HP programs and offerings.
  • Develops account plans with partner to grow HP’s share of the business.
  • Partners effectively with others in the account to ensure coordinated efficient account management.
  • Ability to motivate partner’s sales force.
  • Solid understanding of pipeline management discipline and ability to explain benefits to partners.

Application Closing Date

Not Specified.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online