Role Description We are looking for a Commercial Account Manager to support strategic enterprise customers across New Jersey and the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area within HPE Networking's Enterprise East organization. In this field-based role, you will be responsible for driving growth across a portfolio of established enterprise accounts while developing new business opportunities throughout the territory. You will leverage HPE's industry-leading networking portfolio—including wireless, switching, routing, firewalls, SaaS, Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), and data center networking solutions—to build trusted executive relationships, expand existing customer investments, and acquire new logos. This role is ideal for a sales professional who thrives in a balanced hunter/farmer environment, enjoys partnering closely with customers to solve complex business challenges, and is excited to help organizations modernize their enterprise networking infrastructure. Responsibilities - Builds growth opportunities using the account planning process; actively manages planning process through scheduled reviews and updates. - Extensive time working with and leveraging external partners to deliver solution sale. - Significant percentage of time spent directly with customer; interfaces with all levels, including highest within customer organization; highly diverse set of functions and buyers; focus in on management level. - Develops business plan in conjunction with customer. - Applies consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that result in ongoing profitable revenue growth for the company. - Maintains high-level of customer loyalty and builds trust and integrity, as indicated in company conducted surveys and reports. - Responsible for achieving/managing quarterly, half yearly, annual quota and/or margin. - Enters all opportunities in pipeline tool and updates them weekly. Recommends and Implements industry leading Pipeline management practices. - Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies. - Acts as a first interface for international accounts in collaboration with members of global business teams, and local teams. - Identifies customer requirements, matches with company capabilities and chooses the respective company supply chain accordingly (Volume Direct or Indirect). Qualifications - University or bachelor's degree preferred. - 8+ years of networking sales experience. - Demonstrated experience selling enterprise networking solutions to large commercial and/or enterprise accounts, including building executive-level relationships, managing complex sales cycles, and driving both account growth and net-new business. - Experience selling networking solutions, including routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, or related networking infrastructure technologies. - Preferred location is New Jersey or the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area, with ability to travel approximately 50–60% within the assigned territory for customer meetings, partner engagements, and regional events. Requirements - Has good leadership skills and cross functional expertise. - Must have good time management skills. - Broad understanding of the customer's needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs; particularly considering the specific industry/market. - Ability to coordinate multiple internal and external partners on multiple levels to deliver appropriate solution sale. - High level customer management relationship building, working at management and executive level in lines of business. - Partner organization intelligence aligned with partner management skills. - Advanced sales negotiation, and deal closing skills. - Identifies and effectively leads the account resources to ensure coordinated, efficient, account management, and accountability for achieving business results. - Expertise in managing end-to-end sales processes in large deals. - Relevant knowledge of client's industry; keeps abreast of trends and lead discussions with IT on strategic directions and linking discussions. - Knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions and engages specialist resources as needed. - Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to the company's solutions. - Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on a complex solution basis. - Excels in competitive selling skills. - Sells across platform and specialty. Benefits - Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. - Personal & Professional Development: We invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division. - Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.