Job description:
Seeking a commercially driven Infrastructure Solutions Sales professional who can hunt new opportunities, grow strategic accounts, work with technology principals, and collaborate with Account Managers and Presales teams to win end-to-end solutions.
The role focuses on understanding customer needs, identifying infrastructure opportunities beyond individual products, and driving sustainable revenue and profitability.
Key Responsibilities
Business Development & Hunting
- Develop and execute new business strategies to generate a healthy pipeline of infrastructure and technology opportunities.
- Proactively hunt for new customers, projects and business opportunities rather than relying solely on leads generated by principals or vendors.
- Identify customer pain points, upcoming infrastructure refreshes, transformation initiatives and technology investment opportunities.
Principal & Vendor Management
- Develop and manage business opportunities across key technology principals
- Build strong working relationships with principals, distributors and technology partners.
- Develop joint business opportunities and go-to-market initiatives with technology partners.
Solution Selling
- Understand customer requirements across servers, storage, virtualization, HCI, cloud and data centre infrastructure.
- Identify opportunities to expand a customer's requirement from a single product into a broader solution architecture.
- Work with Presales and technical teams to design and position integrated infrastructure solutions.
Account Planning & Revenue Growth
- Build account strategies that identify multiple opportunities across infrastructure, cloud and related technology solutions.
- Monitor pipeline development, sales forecasts, revenue targets and deal progression.
- Focus on both revenue growth and deal profitability/margin.
Sales & Deal Management
- Work closely with Account Managers to identify, qualify and develop opportunities.
- Collaborate with Presales teams to build technically and commercially compelling proposals.
- Take ownership of opportunities from initial engagement through qualification, solution development, negotiation and closure.
- Maintain accurate sales forecasts and pipeline visibility.
Senior Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage confidently with C-level executives, MDs, business leaders, IT decision-makers and infrastructure stakeholders.
- Understand the customer's business strategy and ask meaningful questions beyond technical requirements.
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, IT, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in B2B technology sales/business development, preferably within enterprise infrastructure, data centre, cloud or related technology solutions.
- Strong experience in selling servers, storage, virtualization, HCI, cloud or data centre solutions.
- Proven track record in new business development and customer hunting.
- Experience working with technology principals, distributors, system integrators or IT solution providers.
- Proven ability to work effectively with Account Managers, Presales, Technical Consultants and vendor teams.
- Strong commercial understanding of revenue, gross margin, profitability, pipeline and sales forecasting.
- Confident engaging with senior management and C-level stakeholders.
Preferred Experience
- VMware / Virtualization, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Hybrid Cloud / Cloud Infrastructure, Data Centre Infrastructure, Backup / Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Server & Storage Solutions