HP

Distribution Business Manager (m/f/d)

Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Full time
Distribution Business Manager (m/f/d)

Description -

Job Summary

  • This role is responsible for acting as an expert for partners, fostering strategic relationships to propel overall organizational growth. The role collaborates with key partners, assessing risks and rationalizing investments. The role manages conflicts, provides mentorship, and directs sales efforts to ensure operational success.

Responsibilities

  • Serves as an expert to the partners for a variety of wide range of complex information regarding the organization’s offerings, promotions, and configurations.

  • Develops strategic relationships with partners to grow the organization’s overall business and ensure long-term business opportunities.

  • Works with the largest partner accounts with high strategic value, performs risk assessment, and gives business rationale for the organization’s investments in the partner.

  • Develops and maintains account plans to promote sales growth and broaden the organization’s footprint in targeted industries and/or customers leveraging partner solution stacks and other capabilities.

  • Navigates and resolve conflicts or disagreements between partners and the organization to maintain a positive relationship.

  • Sets revenue targets and monitors performance against targets, and key performance indicators, and provides accurate revenue forecasts.

  • Achieves quarterly targets and forecast predictability on sell in and sell thru

  • Provides mentorship and guidance to lower-level employees, thus ensuring the realization of operational and strategic plans.

  • Engages in transactional and relationship selling while directing sales professionals and achieving sales quotas.

  • Drives the evolution of partner engagement strategies based on feedback, market changes, and performance data.

  • Drives alignment on Pan Euro Level to country level and ensure leveraging the one HP strategy.

  • Maximizes resellers coverage.

  • Collaborates with key linkages and other peers to maximize target achievement.

Education & Experience Recommended

  • Four-year or Graduate Degree in Sales, Marketing, Business Administration, or any other related discipline or commensurate work experience or demonstrated competence

  • Typically has 10+ years of work experience, preferably in enterprise selling, channel & alliance, or a related field

Knowledge & Skills

  • Account Management

  • Automation

  • Active listening

  • Agility & Adaptability

  • Business Development

  • Business Planning

  • Channel Sales

  • Customer Relationship Management

  • Communication & Negotiation

  • Collaboration & Influence

  • Data-Driven Decision Making

  • Data Literacy

  • Good understanding of digital marketing

  • Outside Sales

  • Product Knowledge

  • Resilience & Adaptability

  • Sales Management

  • Sales Process

  • Strategic Planning & Execution

  • Sales Territory Management

  • Selling Techniques

  • Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking

  • Proactive Mindset

  • Technology & Digital Fluency

  • Value Propositions

Cross-Org Skills

  • Effective communication skills in both German and English

  • Strong results orientation

  • High learning agility

  • Digital fluency

  • Customer-centric mindset

Impact & Scope

  • Impacts large functions and leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects.

Complexity

  • Provides highly innovative solutions to complex problems within established policy.

Disclaimer

  • This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Job -

Sales

Schedule -

Full time

Shift -

No shift premium (Germany)

Travel -

75%

Relocation -

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