Printing Sales Specialist
The Print Sales Specialist is responsible for specializing in sales, collaborating with Ownership Teams, managing account relationships, and providing expertise on HP's products and services. This role focuses on achieving sales quotas, developing proposals, landing new logos, and ensuring client hand-offs.
The Print Sales Specialist owns Print Solutions focused selling activities aligned to an overall account strategy with existing or new accounts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Specialize in sales and collaborate with Ownership Teams.
- Manage account relationships and provide expertise on HP's products and services.
- Achieve sales quotas and develop proposals.
- Land new logos and ensure client hand-offs.
- Identify and pursue expansion opportunities within existing and new accounts
- Owns the Print focused selling activities aligned to an overall account strategy.
- Collaborate with the AE to identify, land, adopt, expand, renew, and close opportunities.
- Ensure high-quality pipeline management and achieve sales quotas.
- Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, up to and including the C-level for mid-to-large accounts, by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client for collaboration products and solutions to propose outcome-based solutions to customers
- New Pipeline – To independently generate pipeline for HP's Print/Solutions offering.
- Qualify and Update Opportunities – To qualify, document and update opportunity and pursuit strategy throughout the sales process.
- Pipeline Management – To partner with sales lead for account to ensure pipeline sizing and tracking and visibility across the sales process; to ensure pipeline for their own product area meets expectations / targets
- Implementation and Adoption – To collaborate with Customer Success & other post-sales resources to support timely implementation and effective adoption of HP solutions. Conduct Handover meetings with customers for contractual Deals.
- Assist with Account Plans (SAR), QBR, VAS and solutions presentation materials.
Education & Experience Recommended:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
- Strong sales focus with high level of motivation.
- Minimum of 5 years of sales experience within the printing industry.
- Proven track record of achieving sales quotas and driving business growth.
- Experience in managing sales processes and building customer relationships.
- Strong understanding of printing market trends and competitive landscape with the ability to turn insights into business opportunities.
- Solid knowledge of partner ecosystem within the printing sector.
- Experience navigating complex organizational structures to identify and capitalize on growth opportunities.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Expertise in IT strategy and managed services.
- Strong business management skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and strategic planning abilities.
- Leadership communication and ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
- Adaptability to new business capabilities and emerging trends. (i.e. "platform" / marketplace…).
- Advanced negotiation and deal-closing abilities
About HP:
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company and ranked 10 on the Fortune 500 list for 2012, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to serve more than 1 billion customers in over 170 countries on six continents. HP invents, engineers, and delivers technology solutions that drive business value, create social value, and improve the lives of our clients.
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Job - Sales
Schedule - Full time
Shift - No shift premium (Germany)
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