PWI Packaging Sales and Account Manager, Japan

Job Description

Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization?s long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function. (TCP review board required in TCP families)

Responsibilities:

• Develops long term sales pipeline to increase HP's market share in specialized area.
• Use specialty expertise to seek out new opportunities for customer value by expanding and enhancing existing opportunities to build the pipeline in and drive pursuit in specialty area.
• Provide support to the Account managers.
• Set direction for business development and solution replication.
• Creates and grows reference customers.
• Sell complex products or solutions to customers on a partnership basis.
• May act as a dedicated resource to a few strategic accounts.
• Services specialists may also be responsible for selling small outsourcing deals.
• For Services Consultants: Focus on growing contractual renewals for large accounts with more complexity, to higher- total contract-value renewals.
• Establish a professional, working, and consultative, relationship with the client, including the C- level for mid-to-large accounts by developing a core understanding of the unique business needs of the client within their industry.
• Maintain and use overall cross-portfolio knowledge to support account leads with integration of solutions.
• Contribute to enduring executive relationships that establish HP' consultative professionalism and promote its total solution capabilities.
• Maintains expertise on IT at all levels - new applications, maintenance, typical budgets of the CIO's, typical objectives, measures, metrics.
• Maintains broad market and competitor knowledge to ensure credibility with Customer Executives.

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor's degree; Advanced University or MBA preferred.
• Directly related previous work experience.
• Demonstrated achievement of progressively higher quota diversity of business customer, and higher level customer interface.
• Prior selling experience includes multiple, diverse set of selling responsibilities.
• Viewed as expert in given field by company and customer.
• Considered a mentor of selling strategy, including designing strategy.
• Typically 12+ years of related sales experience.
• Project management skills required.
• 3-5 years' experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Is considered a master in knowledge of products, solution or service offerings as well as competitor's offerings to be able to sell large, complex solutions.
• Know strengths and weaknesses of key competitors in account and how to leverage this knowledge in the account.
• Uses expertise specialty, consultative solution selling and business development skills to align the client's business needs with solution.
• In-depth knowledge of client's business, organizational structure, business processes and financial structure.
• Considerable knowledge of the customer's infrastructure and architecture.
• Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving services sales in accounts - prospecting, negotiating and closing deals.
• Demonstrates leadership and initiative in successfully driving full portfolio including hardware, software and services needed for the customer's requirements.
• Strategic planning on a business development level; can build an effective business case reflecting the value of an appropriate strategy.
• Balance strategic and tactical pursuits to optimize coverage and develop a predictable revenue stream.
• Uses C-level engagement skills in collaboration with account leads to offer value-add solutions to the client.
• Excellent project oversight skills.
• Works with the account team to build an effective account plan and strategy to drive incremental revenue in the account.
• Utilizes Siebel as an expert and accurately forecasts business.
• Successful partner engagement experience.
  Works effectively with our partners to drive additional revenue.
• Understand and sells high value software solutions.
• Demonstrates the ability to leverage HP's portfolio of products and services to change the playing field against our competition.
• Understands the leverage of services as part of strategic portfolio of products.
• Promotes services as part of all strategic opportunities.
• Maintain knowledge of industry trends, associated solutions, and key partner/ISV solutions.

■業務内容

・アカウントマネージャー、重要顧客の営業担当として、継続的かつ有効な関係性を顧客と築き、顧客のビジネス成功に寄与し、アカウントが持つターゲット営業数値にもコミットする。

■必要とする経験、スキル

・営業経験12年以上

・プロジェクトマネジメントの経験歓迎

・日本メーカ―企業への提案営業経験

・英語力、英語での業務経験がある方歓迎。上司は海外のマネージャーになりますので、日常の社内活動は英語となります。ただし、担当顧客は、日本企業です。

・印刷業界における知識と経験

■その他

・海外や国内の出張が必然的にあります。

・面接は、英語と日本語になります。

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