# Enterprise Networking Strategic Account Manager - NSW **Company**: Hewlett Packard Enterprise **Location**: Sydney, New South Wales **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Sales **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Sydney-New-South-Wales-Australia/Enterprise-Networking-Strategic-Account-Manager---NSW_1216482-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/enterprise-networking-strategic-account-manager-4571a324-6f0/ ## Description The Enterprise Networking Account Manager serves as the primary relationship owner for a portfolio of strategic Enterprise customers across New South Wales. This role is responsible for driving growth across the HPE Networking portfolio, including Aruba and Juniper solutions, by helping customers achieve business outcomes through AI-Native Networking, security, cloud connectivity, automation, data centre networking, and digital transformation initiatives. **Responsibilities** - Develop and execute strategic account plans that drive growth, customer retention, and new business opportunities across assigned Enterprise accounts. - Build trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Infrastructure leaders, and other executive stakeholders to align technology investments with business objectives. - Drive revenue growth across the HPE Networking portfolio, including Aruba and Juniper networking, AI-Native Networking, wireless, switching, routing, data centre networking, security, and SASE solutions. - Demonstrate a proactive, self-starter mindset with the ability to independently identify, develop, and execute growth opportunities across assigned accounts and target prospects. - Drive new business development through a hunter mentality, uncovering whitespace opportunities, competitive displacement opportunities, and strategic transformation initiatives. - Identify, qualify, and progress complex sales opportunities through disciplined opportunity management and consultative selling methodologies. - Develop customer-focused business cases and value propositions that demonstrate measurable business outcomes and return on investment. - Lead customer discussions around network modernization, automation, AI-driven operations, security transformation, cloud connectivity, and operational efficiency initiatives. - Plan and facilitate executive roundtables, customer advisory sessions, workshops, and networking forums that strengthen executive relationships and generate new business opportunities. - Represent HPE Networking at industry conferences, technology forums, customer events, partner engagements, and marketing-led initiatives to enhance market presence and generate pipeline. - Partner closely with marketing teams to develop and execute account-based marketing (ABM) programs, demand generation activities, customer engagement campaigns, and thought leadership initiatives. - Build and maintain an active network of industry contacts, influencers, partners, and customer executives to identify emerging opportunities and market trends. - Maintain a healthy and accurate sales pipeline through effective forecasting, opportunity qualification, and CRM management. - Collaborate with channel partners, system integrators, managed service providers, and alliance partners to accelerate pipeline creation and opportunity conversion. - Lead virtual account teams consisting of presales, services, partner, and executive resources to execute account strategies and deliver successful customer outcomes. - Achieve or exceed quarterly, half-year, and annual revenue and profitability targets. - Act as the primary customer advocate within HPE Networking while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction, loyalty, and long-term relationship development. - Coordinate with local and global teams on strategic and multinational customer opportunities. **Education and Experience** - Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience. - 5+ years of Enterprise technology sales experience with a demonstrated track record of achieving or exceeding sales targets. - Experience selling Enterprise Networking, security, cloud, infrastructure, or digital transformation solutions. - Experience within the Enterprise Networking industry preferred, including Aruba, Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Extreme Networks, Dell, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, or comparable technology vendors. - Proven experience managing complex enterprise sales cycles involving multiple stakeholders and executive decision-makers. - Experience working with channel partners and indirect sales models. - Experience selling into Enterprise and Government customers is highly regarded. **Knowledge, Skills and Competencies** - Strong strategic account planning and territory management capabilities. - Executive-level communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills. - Consultative and value-based selling expertise. - Entrepreneurial and self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to independently create opportunities and generate pipeline. - Strong hunter mentality with a passion for uncovering and pursuing new business opportunities. - Experience designing and leading executive-level customer engagements, including roundtables, workshops, industry forums, and strategic business discussions. - Ability to understand customer business challenges and align technology solutions to business outcomes. - Strong commercial negotiation, deal management, and contract management skills. - Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships across business and technical stakeholders. - Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders without direct authority. - Advanced pipeline management, forecasting, and sales planning skills. - Strong understanding of Enterprise Networking, AI-driven operations, automation, cybersecurity, cloud networking, and digital transformation trends. - Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high level of execution discipline. - Competitive selling skills with the ability to articulate differentiated value propositions. - Strong partner engagement and ecosystem management capabilities. - Ability to collaborate effectively with marketing, partner, and leadership teams to drive brand awareness, demand generation, and pipeline growth. **What Success Looks Like** - Consistently achieving or exceeding revenue and profitability targets. - Building and maintaining a healthy strategic pipeline with sufficient coverage to support sustainable growth. - Driving net-new business and competitive wins across the Aruba and Juniper portfolio. - Expanding adoption of HPE Networking solutions within assigned Enterprise accounts. - Establishing trusted executive relationships across customer organizations. - Leading impactful executive roundtables, customer engagement programs, and industry events that strengthen HPE Networking's market position and generate measurable pipeline. - Leveraging the partner ecosystem to accelerate growth and enhance customer outcomes. - Identifying and closing transformational opportunities that deliver measurable business value to customers while contributing to HPE Networking growth objectives. **Benefits** - Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. - Investment in career development and growth. - Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Strategic account planning - Territory management - Executive-level communication - Consultative selling - Value-based selling - Pipeline management - Forecasting - Sales planning - Enterprise Networking - AI-driven operations - Automation - Cybersecurity - Cloud networking - Digital transformation ### Nice to have - Aruba - Juniper - Cisco - Arista - Extreme Networks - Dell - Palo Alto Networks - Fortinet --- Source: [Apply at hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://hpe.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Jobsathpe/job/Sydney-New-South-Wales-Australia/Enterprise-Networking-Strategic-Account-Manager---NSW_1216482-2?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)