Description
The Inside Account Executive (iAE) is responsible for owning the end-to-end account strategy and sales engagement for medium business accounts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the end-to-end account strategy.
- Expand share-of-wallet (SoW) by developing/closing opportunities with acquisition (new logos), retention, & development mid-sized accounts.
- Drive sales in Personal Systems and Managed Device Services and expand services within the account.
- Maintain and execute comprehensive account strategies.
- Identify & Connect customer strategy, key initiatives & HP offering to build outcome-based sales and substantiating business case aligned to customer key initiatives.
- Engage with executives and build strong customer relationships.
- Manage pipeline growth and ensure customer retention.
- Coordinate with various internal departments to align resources with client needs.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.
- Proven experience in sales, account management, or a related role.
- Strong understanding of sales processes and strategies.
- Experience working with medium business accounts is preferred.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Strategic account leadership and the ability to act as the "account lead".
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
- Expertise in outcome-based selling and crafting value propositions.
- Proficiency in digital and remote selling.
- Ability to manage complexity and drive portfolio-based outcomes.
- Knowledge in P&L management.
- Strong business acumen & executive presence.
- Strong understanding of a modern IT (services) ecosystem.
- Deep expertise in HPs Outcome Based Sales value prop. & offerings.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with influencers/decisions makers.
- To navigate complex organizations to find expansion opportunities.
- To lead meetings with high variety of senior-level stakeholders.
- To leverage customer, industry, product and service knowledge to develop long-term growth strategies.
- Culture of proactive business development, collaboration, accountability and follow-through with strong negotiation and deal closing skills.
- Experience leading account teams on local and global scales.
- New Technology and AI: demonstrated curiosity and confidence in adopting emerging tools and technologies,especially AI,to enhance sales performance, customer engagement, and productivity.