Commercial District Manager

Commercial District Manager

Description -
Applies expert subject matter knowledge to manage staff activities in solving most complex business/technical issues within established policies. Manages activities of non-exempt/exempt individual contributors. Has accountability for a large multi-department area(s) or location(s) with significant impact on business unit results and organizational strategy. Acts as a key advisor to senior management on the development of overall policies and long-term goals of the organization. Plans, manages and monitors high-end operational/tactical activities of Staff. Staff members' primary focus is on either high-end tactical or broad strategic issues or a combination of both. Recruits and supports development of direct staff members. Position typically reports to Director or above.

Additional Guidance/Criteria:

• Directs and controls activities within a sub-region or Region.
• Typically manages 10 or more direct reports. Span of Control guidelines may differ from these numbers.

Responsibilities:
Managing the Business

• Sales coverage - Builds well targeted business plans and strategies for allocating resources and driving sales activities to achieve margin; collaborates within HP and with the field to prioritize, facilitate and direct the use of resources.
• Account Planning - Assists in planning sales strategy; manages the internal processes in support of sales reps and selling activities; aligns tactical account plans with overall corporate strategy; actively develops and manages geography business plans to meet revenue goals/quotas; develops plans that articulate the strategies/requirements essential for focusing sales activities, forecasts accurately and communicates sales progress; actively manages and signs off on account business plans through scheduled reviews and updates.
• Pipeline management - Builds, monitors and orchestrates sales pipelines to ensure continuous population of near and long term opportunities; manages the size, shape and quality of pipeline; analyzes overall win rates and win/loss ratios.
• Deal management - Reviews deals to ensure soundness and problem-free processing by HP back-end operations; Monitors the number of deals with VAS (Value Added Selling) plan reviewed by managers.
• Business acumen - Exhibits base level of business, financial and legal acumen to develop meaningful business recommendations; continuously monitors and improves area-of-control operations to ensure alignment with HPs business direction, the quality of business practices and optimum organization performance.
• Strategic sales planning & implementation - Orchestrates the development of strategic sales plans that reflect HP's business strategy, to advance market share/penetration, and achieve profitable growth.
• Competitive Positioning/Strategy - Uses competitive intelligence in account planning and sales activities to develop counter strategies that will neutralize competitive influence on the customer's buying decisions.

Leading & Managing Sales People

• Coaching & Performance Management - Assesses and manages employee performance to ensure individual and group excellence; counsels and supports individuals through selling challenges; manages performance and results of individuals through selling challenges; manages performance and results of high and low performers.
• Leadership - Models effective selling skills; motivates and supports sales teams in selling; demonstrates a high level of support in the pursuit and closing of deals.
• People development - Nurtures and advances the talent required to maintain HP sales force excellence within area of control; sponsors and directs skill building activities to increase the productivity and accomplishments of the sales force.
• Change management - Ability to work through an environment of change and effectively lead a sales team through transitions beyond their control.

Selling as a Sales Manager

• Focus on strategic direction - Understands the overall HP strategic direction and portfolio, and can assist sales teams in customizing solutions based on client needs.
• C-level partnering - Contributes to enduring executive relationships at the highest levels of the client's organization; personally interacts with executives; establishes professional relationships and credibility with key IT and business executives in support of other established relationships with the client.
• Consultative selling - Strategizes and coaches team on how to apply consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that result in ongoing profitable revenue growth for HP; prepares for client calls in partnership with sales teams and supports the efforts of the team during client meetings; ensures sales teams have access to other HP resources and encourages them to nurture relationships with client influencers and decision makers.
• Industry and client knowledge - Stays current with industry and competitive research and information to enable rich client dialogue; maintains an understanding of client business challenges, industry trends and markets; demonstrates breadth and depth of knowledge to position and map HP capabilities that align to client business objectives and initiatives.

Education and Experience Required:

• Directly related management experience and work results including success in achieving progressively higher quota or other sales related goals.
• Demonstrated level of project management skills.
• University or Bachelor's degree.
• Typically 7+ years experience in sales.

Knowledge and Skills:
In addition to core selling skills:

Business Management.

• Strategic Planning - Translates business goals into actionable plans and strategies that reflect the requirements and opportunities within area-of-control Aligns area-of-control account and market opportunities with upstream strategic plans and metrics. Sets sales priorities and establishing these as the focus of individual or sales team activities.
• Execution - Actively manages business plans to meet revenue goals/quotes and advance the business interests of HP. Determines if an opportunity is profitable for the company.
• Forecast/Budget Control - Tracks and manages rolling forecasts and budgets to ensure timely and accurate roll-ups.
• Pipeline Management - Builds, monitors and orchestrates sales pipelines to ensure continuous population of near- and long-term opportunities Balances quick wins against longer sales-cycle opportunities to ensure both immediate wins and long-term profitability for HP.
• Operations Building/Improvement - Continuously monitors, troubleshoots and improves area-of-control operations to ensure alignment with HP's business direction, the quality of business practices, optimum organizational performance and a highly motivated sales force.

Sales Development

• Resource Brokering/Allocation - Collaborates across HP within the field to access, facilitate and direct the use of resources needed for effective selling.
• Sales Facilitation - Applies influence and organizational savvy to advances.

Strategic Business Planning

• Manages the top- and bottom-line - monitors discounts and margins involved in individual deals to align them with group performance.
• Works with others to create mechanisms that shift the focus from "low- hanging," immediate wins to recognizing and providing incentives for large deals/wins.
• Understands industry drivers and the customer base better to bridge HP solutions with account-relevant problems and opportunities.
• Builds stronger internal relationships with other groups to ensure seamless selling of total HP solutions and to establish clear expectations for resource alignment and support.
• Develop effective counter-measures and messages.
• Builds clear strategies for working with key accounts to pursue and close major opportunities, including clear identification of tactics for accelerating progress through the pipeline.

Sales Team/Individual Coaching

• Provides better coaching and mentoring opportunities - less improvisation, more planful, more call-related modeling.
• Reviews and provides counseling on account-team deals.
• Leverages personal sales experience to participate in pursuit planning for key accounts.
• Strengthens the alignment of account-team activities and priorities with management's business mission and goals.
• Assesses account teams for strengths/challenges and ensures that the team capitalizes on individual strengths, while compensating for individual challenges.
• Ensures that sales reps are trained on corporate tools and systems to ensure efficient use of time, better data collation, and elimination of the "management by spreadsheet" cycle.
• Vertical Industry Acumen - Develops and exercises a deep understanding of business dynamics within area of control, as a basis for informed business decision making.
• Solution Selling - Approaches selling from a business solution perspective to ensure that HP products and services accurately address the customer/client's true business need in terms of type, scope, level.
• Change Management - Develops methods for supporting innovation and change across the organization.
• Leadership - Able to lead effectively in a complex and political environment, and deliver results; Able to influence without direct authority; Able to balance between competing priorities and be flexible and creative; Drives team performance to best in class.

The on-target earnings (OTE) range for this role is $204,250 - $302,300 annually, with a 60/40 (salary/incentive) mix. There are additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to US candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
  • 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
  • 13 paid holidays
  • Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave ( US benefits overview )

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Job -
Sales

Schedule -
Full time

Shift -
No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -
50%

Relocation -
No Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) -

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