Address
Form of workReq #
WD00047953
Career area:
Sales
Country/Region:
Australia
State:
New South Wales
City:
Chatswood
Date:
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Working time:
Full-time
Additional Locations:
Chatswood - New South Wales - Australia
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Description and Requirements
Position Description:
Are you a Storage / Data Management Sales Specialist ? Do you love datacenter computing and storage solutions?
Lenovo is drastically enhancing its Data Management products portfolio and is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic Sales person to drive Lenovo’s Data Management portfolio.
As a Lenovo Sales Specialist in Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group you will get engaged in promoting Lenovo ISG solutions. You will work with CTOs, IT decision makers, Lenovo pre-sales and sales teams, with Lenovo partners and ISVs. Your goal and target is to drive Lenovo’s data center opportunities through the sales cycle, from understanding customer business and technical requirements, building the solution architecture and closing deals.
For our Australia and New Zealand Region, we are looking for a Hunter who can fulfil these roles:
Entrepreneurial approach that is imaginative, smart, passionate, and approachable
Defining and identifying IT Datacenter / Storage projects in the coming quarters by acting as a trusted advisor to the allocated customer set
Building a future pipeline of new business within aligned territories
Developing and maintaining customer relationships to Technical Director level
Keeping customers up to date with new technologies and innovations relevant to their industry
Identifying customer projects and interpreting their technical requirement
Have the ability to build technical solutions working with the wider specialist product and technical community, the sales teams and business partners
Lead and/or provide Technical Input to Tenders / RFIs / RFPs
Gathers information to develop an accurate understanding of customer technology infrastructure
Adapts solution design, Storage solutions to new requirements
Proactively supports the account teams with product advice, presentations, proposal support
Ability to collaborate with virtual teams around the globe
Experience in constructing commercial pricing offerings to customers and partners
Collaborating and influencing cross functional teams to deliver partner and marketing programs
Position Requirements:
10 years of experience supporting enterprise sales of Converged solution (storage, networking, virtualization) and/or Storage solution to large enterprise accounts
Understanding of architecture, design, and implementation of modern IT systems and cloud infrastructures
Demonstrate a broad understanding of trends & technologies for storage solutions from Storage leaders
Able to create and present Lenovo technical solutions to senior level clients within the customer and clearly articulate the technical value proposition to the customer
Commercial awareness of the local Competitive Market, business partner objectives and the customer industry environment, preferably in the external storage market and hyperscale cloud industry.
Able to develop SAN/NAS/Object Storage architectures dependent on the application or workload requirements
Knowledge of the storage interactions and dependencies of hypervisors and operating systems
10+ years of experience in any three of the following infrastructure technologies:
Enterprise Storage, including Software defined Storage (e.g., Pure, Dell Powerstore/Powervault, NetApp Ontap)
Public cloud infrastructure alternatives such AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure
Vmware Virtualization (ESXi, vCloud Director, vRealize, vSAN)
Network attached Storage / File Storage (e.g. NetApp, Dell)
Flash Storage (e.g. Pure Storage)
Storage virtualization (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V)
Backup to disk / Backup to tape environments
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience.
Excellent verbal and written communication in English language, Asian language is a plus.
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