Partner Business Manager - Large Format Printing

Description -

We are a team of 5 multilingual Sales specialists managing the Large Format Printing business in the Nordics & Benelux territory. If you are looking for a true opportunity to change a market, drive a transformation and lead the way to HP’s future success, this role in HP The Netherlands, managing our Benelux territory, is the place for your next career step.

About you:

• You are experienced in balancing sales and structural business management.

• You thrive in complexity, influencing and getting buy-ins from both internal and external stakeholders.

• You love staying ahead of the game, developing broad market and competitor knowledge.

• You have an analytical approach when planning and undertaking financial responsibilities.

• You act as an expert providing direction and guidance to process improvements and establishing policies.

• You love to contribute to the development of new ideas and methods.

• You love to represent the organization to external customers/clients.

• You enjoy being out in the field traveling 60%+ of the time, meeting with Partners and Customers in The Benelux.

Responsibilities:

• Your main objective is to drive profitable growth through partners to increase HP’s Large Format Print market share in the Benelux.

• Act as the single point of contact for your partners – they consider you the HP Large Format Printing subject matter expert in hardware, supplies, services and solutions.

• Promote HP offerings to become a key part of the partner's business and solutions;

• Support partners to sell HP branded products to end-customers.

• Establish and maintain account plans to promote sales growth.

• Achieve assigned quota for HP products, services and software.

• Transactional and relationship selling working within a team of selling professionals.

• Create, fill-in and manage HP funnel for deals with partners and transforms potential leads into joint sales activities.

• Responsible for managing and identifying where to invest Market Development Funds (MDF).

• Actively engage HP resources and senior executives to build strategic relationships with the partner which ensures long- term business opportunities for HP.

• Provide the business rationale and risk assessment for making HP investments in the partner.

• Ensure partners are compliant with legal and SBC practices.

• Manage our distributors who are managing our partners on behalf of HP.

• Manage the partner landscape, may recruit and develop business relationship with new partners.

• Report to the Regional Business Manager Nordics & Benelux.

Education and Experience Required:

• University or Bachelor’s degree.

• Typically 8-12 years of selling experience at end- user account or partner level.

• Experience in selling to partners in a complex environment.

• Ideally, you will have experience in the large format printing industry in Northern Europe.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Solid knowledge of the IT industry, competing vendors, and the channel.

• Effectively selling HP offerings by building strategic relationships with partner decision makers; aligning partner and HP processes; and promoting HP programs and offerings.

• Thorough understanding of HP's products, software, and services. Able to communicate the strengths of HP's offerings relative to competition and overcome objections.

• Seniority to deal with C levels/top management at distribution partners.

• Proven experience in developing strategic plans with the partner to grow the size of the business and HP's share.

• Ability to motivate partner’s sales force.

• Thorough understanding of pipeline management discipline and ability to explain benefits to partners/other sales team members.

• Solid communication and interpersonal skills.

• Partnering effectively with others in the account to ensure coordinated account management.

• Fluency in Dutch and English is required, French is a plus.

Job -

Sales

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (Netherlands)

Travel -

50%

Relocation -

No

Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO) - 

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