# Partner Business Manager

**Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
**Location**: Seattle, Washington
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Partner Business Manager to serve as a trusted adviser to our partners and develop mutually beneficial relationships in alignment with HPE business priorities.

The successful candidate will drive end-to-end revenue, HPE profitability, and pipeline through joint business plans and data-driven sales efforts.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a trusted advisor and expert to partners on emerging trends in their ecosystem

- Drive end-to-end HPE revenue, profitability, and pipeline through joint business plans and data-driven sales efforts

- Articulate HPE global and local business strategies to partners

- Develop thorough knowledge of partner priorities, industry trends, IT landscape, and HPE technology

- Demonstrate business and sales leadership by building executive-level relationships with partners

- Coordinate and execute HPE activities with partners, leveraging HPE specialists when needed

- Drive account mapping process with partners and HPE sales teams to align field sales

- Lead and implement HPE strategy, programs, and systems with and on behalf of partners

Education and Experience:

- 8+ years of selling experience within the partner ecosystem

- 5+ years of working in partner space

- 5+ years of experience hunting new business and developing existing business

- University or Bachelor's degree; advanced degree or MBA preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

- Technology Acumen: thorough awareness of current technology trends and related HPE strategy

- Sales Acumen: ability to influence partners to take actions that create increased value to HPE

- Account Management: thorough understanding of business and financial fundamentals

- Portfolio Knowledge: thorough understanding of HPE products and how they can deliver value to customers

- Partner Industry Acumen: thorough understanding of partner industry, trends, competitors, and channel

- Partnering Acumen: builds understanding of and relationships with partner and internal community

- Negotiation and Conflict Management: ability to achieve agreement within business contexts

- Financial Acumen: thorough understanding of financial accounting concepts

- Sales Forecasting: ability to look forward and anticipate partner needs

- Communication: professional, clear, and effective verbal and written communication

- Time Management: ability to prioritize and effectively meet deadlines

- Creativity and Entrepreneurship: ability to innovate and think beyond proscribed solutions

## Skills

### Required
- Technology Acumen
- Sales Acumen
- Account Management
- Portfolio Knowledge
- Partner Industry Acumen
- Partnering Acumen
- Negotiation and Conflict Management
- Financial Acumen
- Sales Forecasting
- Communication
- Time Management
- Creativity and Entrepreneurship

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