North America Alliance Vendor & Channel Sales Manager (Inside Sales Exp.)
Houston, Texas, Us
Joined as an Account Manager in 2010 aligned to the Channel and small & medium businesses. This was post my retail industry experience managing the daily sales, financial, supply, and operational business needs for 3 AT&T store fronts. In my 1st 5 years at HP/HPE I was quickly promoted 4 times through a series of increasingly responsible positions based on strong sales, financial, operational, and leadership performance. I was sought after because of my military discipline and drive, which led me to gain experience as an account mgr., Storage specialist, Sales coach, Channel Manager, & Sales Manager. In my account manager/storage specialist roles I gained a breadth of knowledge and experience across SMB, Commercial (previously known as G1K), Enterprise, Federal, SLED & OEM accounts thus broadening my skills throughout the call center. In my sales coaching role, I built out a completely new way to coach and manage how we onboard new employees, coach up C & B employees to A, build customized training plans, a new measurement structure to measure individual skills per employee to help managers know specifically where to apply pressure on leading individuals on teams, and a new bootcamp for new employees to spend two weeks with me to pressure test their skills before allowing them to move into the actual role. In my roles leading the Alliance Vendor & Channel sales team I was responsible for driving alignment between our Channel, ISVs, Alliance Vendors and Inside Sales to influence best in class co-selling, and overall ROI driven demand gen & business development activities. During this time I took a team from 8 funded resources and because of rigor and clear ROI results, grew the team to over 30 prior to moving to a new role within HPE.