Client Executive

Client Account Executive – New Business 

Our Company

We're Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world's innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you've seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you've seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we're laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We're looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The team

Our Account Managers are a group of experienced, successful technology sales professionals. They establish business relationships & understand customer challenges so that we can deliver profitable business for Hitachi products, services and solutions.

We are looking for a specialist new business acquisition hunter, someone with the energy and drive to win new logos.

 The role

Establishing strong relationships and trust with a small number of strategic accounts. Articulating our industry leading Digital Infrastructure portfolio and related solutions, which include Object Storage, Converged, Hyper Converged, Hybrid Cloud & IaaS. This will include but not be limited to:

• Qualifying and prioritizing key prospects to target. Develop and maintain detailed account plans incorporating deep understanding of the business, organizational structure and operating model.
• Identifying and engaging with channel partners, technology partners and systems integrators relevant to the prospect account to drive activity leading to incremental opportunity.
• Leading a virtual account team, including Sales Specialists, Technical Sales Consultants and functional management, to develop and sell the optimum Hitachi business and technical solutions

What you'll bring

• Strong expertise and background in infrastructure sales with a deep understanding of the key challenges, trends and technology initiatives within our international enterprise client base.
• A new business focus with the ability to work consistently to identify, develop and close opportunities with prospect customers, leveraging virtual teams. You'll be able to share specific examples to illustrate where and how you have done this.
• A track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets throughout your sales career, illustrating your persistent focus on supporting customers to realize required business outcomes
• Fluency in Dutch and English
• Examples of leading with business outcomes rather than product features. A strong bias towards the Challenger persona as defined by CEB within the Challenger Sales Methodology

About us

 We're a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

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