# Compute Category Manager

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Compute Category Manager to join our team in Tokyo, Japan. As a Compute Category Manager, you will be responsible for defining and managing the product offering, positioning, and pricing across the product life cycle of a given portfolio.

You will guide the direct/indirect sales teams on product-related dimensions and plan the business objective for a specific portfolio. You will achieve this plan through ongoing adjustments of the product-related decisions. You will act as the lead expert in competition product knowledge in all dimensions.

Key responsibilities include:

- Deep understanding of the category product, business management, and sales challenges and strategies

- Actively contribute to the definition of the category business plan

- Establish relationships and represent the team with the sales force and other partners at a senior level

- Product line and quota responsibility for a significant share of the product range or a specific customer segment

- Functional responsibility for the team in one or several areas

Requirements:

- University or Bachelor's degree in Marketing or Finance; advanced degree or MBA preferred

- Typically 8-12 years of professional experience with a combination of Marketing, Sales, Business Planning experience preferred

- Consumer and/or Commercial Partner management expertise

We offer:

- Comprehensive suite of benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing

- Investment in your career through specific programs catered to helping you reach your career goals

- Unconditional inclusion and flexibility to manage work and personal needs

## Skills

### Required
- IT industry knowledge
- Business planning skills
- Financial planning and modelling skills
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of promotional marketing processes and practices
- Negotiation skills
- Leadership skills

### Nice to have
- Marketing
- Sales
- Business Planning

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