Competitive Sales Strategist - EMEA - Opportunity for Working Remotely Paris,

Contenu de l'offre Competitive Sales Strategist - EMEA - Opportunity for Working Remotely Paris, chez VMware

Business Summary

The market for end-user Digital Transformation is evolving at an accelerated pace, with constant shifts in customer requirements and solution capabilities. In this highly contested market there is a need to challenge legacy thought processes and solutions and to help drive our customers toward the digital business transformation they are striving for.

In End-User Computing at VMware, we are in the business of helping customers bring Business Mobility and Modern EX (employee experience) to reality: transforming their high-demand applications, building and shaping the next-generation desktop, and helping industries shift core business processes and operations to make things happen. With over 60,000 customers around the globe, our End-User Computing team is helping companies deliver work at the speed of life and our technologies are at the forefront of what's happening next for users across the enterprise and the Anywhere Workspace.

VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center to the virtual workplace, empowering customers with solutions in the software-defined data center to hybrid cloud computing and the mobile workspace. Our team of 20,000+ people working in 50+ locations worldwide is committed to building a community where great people want to work long term by living our values of passion, innovation, execution, teamwork, active learning and giving back. If you are ready to accelerate, innovate and lead, join us as we challenge constraints and problem solve for tomorrow today.

Job Responsibilities & Key Objectives

As a Competitive Strategist, you will play a crucial role at VMware helping to evangelize, position and sell EUC Solutions in our most contested markets. You will be an experienced customer-facing salesperson, guiding and/or coaching individuals and teams in viable sales motions and account strategies. As a Sales expert, you must demonstrate expertise in selling business solutions related to business outcomes, IT outcomes, platforms, products, and technology throughout the sales lifecycle. You will also be responsible for Identifying VMware’s most competitive markets, finding trends to create sales execution that includes positioning, pricing/packaging, effective solutions and routes-to-market that scale. Knowledge of channel and partner practices will be critical and someone who has prior channel management experience would be beneficial. You must be capable of discussing and positioning both business and technical issues for customers and partners at the CxO, Director, Manager, IC level.

You will be responsible for enablement of prospecting across whitespace in your territories, engaging closely with our DSC (Digital Sales Center) in Barcelona, maintaining a portfolio of partner engagements across all verticals and working effectively across teams within the EUC sales organization and core Client Executives, PSO, and Marketing, to facilitate rival positioning that ensures customer success and product adoption.

Skills & Requirements

As an ideal candidate, you will be a committed seasoned sales professional, exceptional in working with both mid-market and large complex customers who are using and/or considering EUC technology rivals to VMWare. Through inclusive and empathetic discussion with partners and customers, you will be able to quickly identify winning patterns and suggest repeatable playbooks to be leveraged across our sales and partner teams. Experience with a wide range of enterprise software, creative pricing proposals to incent and excite customers to adopt our portfolio, and challenging the customer’s status quo is required.

Fluent level of English (French or German is a plus) Candidates must have at least 4+ years of sales experience in Enterprise or Public Accounts with demonstrated knowledge of assorted verticals, buying trends, market triggers, business issues. Must demonstrate confidence and success in a "questioning" customer-based sale, removing incumbents and urging customers to move beyond the status quo for the benefit of their Business Issues. Must have the ability to work in a fast pace environment demonstrating autonomy in conforming to strategic intent while adhering to team values at all times Confidence in working in a matrix organization - either lead exigent sales pursuits and/or coach sales teams in executing strategies Collaborative and enjoy working in a tight-knit, team-oriented matrix organization Able to build and maintain relationships with sales specialists you will be supporting and accelerate sales opportunities through thought leadership Able to build and maintain relationships with channel partners you will be supporting and accelerate sales opportunities through thought leadership Able to build customer relationships and accelerate sales opportunities through thought leadership Capable of translating complex, Business, Technical, and Organizational concepts into easily understood terms to build cooperation and trust Process-oriented and can systematically work through partner, sales specialist and customer requirements Able to translate CIO and LOB business issues into a variety of software solutions and use cases. Communicate these responses in a cooperative and inclusive manner Expert in Desktop/Application virtualization, UEM/EMM/MDM technologies and end-user computing concepts Demonstrate a high level of knowledge of End User Computing market contenders, Solutions, product offerings, pricing/packaging and trends Ability to work effectively as part of a worldwide distributed team and take direction from remote management

Preferred Skills

Our team looks for people who embody our values of humility, empathy, collaboration above isolationism, respectfulness, trustworthiness, and good-natured fun. Additionally, we would like:

Excellent organizational prioritization skills Proficient in research and information dissemination Strong Presentation skills Knowledge in Software-Defined Data Center concepts

Category : Sales
Subcategory: Inside Sales
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2021-05-20

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