Sales Support Placement

Job description

Job ID 1016576 Date posted 2/9/2018 Primary Location Bracknell, England, United Kingdom Job Category Administration Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (United Kingdom)

Description:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is one of the largest technology companies in the world, operating in over 150 countries and market leading in several industries, boasting strong year on year growth. Working for HPE is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated, proactive individual to contribute to driving the continued success of the HPE servers, storage and networking product ranges in the UK&I marketplace.

We offer a challenging 13 month internship programme, which has been specifically created to get the most out of the best interns, whatever their discipline; the role offers real responsibilities from day one. Working in a fast paced, professional and forward thinking environment will provide a perfect setting for those looking to develop invaluable experience they can take forward into a future career.

You will receive support and mentoring tailored to your needs throughout your time on the intern program and beyond.

The successful candidate will be working as a member of the SMB Team supporting the Management Team. The role includes responsibility for ensuring that sales campaigns, results and sales goals are tracked, executed, and effectively communicated. A successful individual will become involved, gaining a good understanding in all aspects of the business whilst taking on additional responsibilities as required.

The role is an integral part of the HPE Team which includes many responsibilities, a solid support system, and a fun and enjoyable work culture.

The core parts of this role are:

·  Supporting the Distribution, Channel and SMB Team on various activities from planning, demand generation, sales enablement, campaign execution, and measurement.
·  Development of formal & informal communication vehicles for internal & external audiences.
·  Management of various programmes and governance activities.
·  Internal/External meetings/events organisation/management.
·  Manage internal processes to support channel sales people.
·  Develop and manage a tracking reports on revenue, sell-out and SalesForce.com data
·  Build & update a weekly forecast pack and support the forecasting process with relevant sales manager
·  Delivering ad-hoc indicator reports or researches, through analysing data collected from sales activities and studies.

In addition the successful candidate will be encouraged to undertake ad-hoc projects encompassing other areas of the business that interests them.

Job Requirements

The successful candidate will demonstrate the drive and willingness to succeed in a multi-faceted organisation; they should have a strong work ethic and excellent organisation and communication skills with a good intermediate knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages.

The candidate will be working closely with members of the HPE SMB team and associated departments to support the business (e.g. Marketing, Category, Channel, Sales etc.) and will require strong interpersonal and communication skills. The individual must be able to work using their initiative, along with the guidance from the core team.

Required Skills

·  A proactive, positive attitude with the ability to work independently.
·  Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
·  Effective time management.
·  Ability to work with numbers and understand connections in data.
·  Demonstrable attention to detail, accuracy, and initiative.
·  Flexibility in order to cope with several pieces of work at the same time- the ability to prioritise tasks in effective order.
·  Creativity and willingness to offer new ideas.
·  The individual should show confidence and great team player attributes.
·  Capable of learning in limited time constraints and always striving for improvement.
·  The candidate should be able to demonstrate some work experience or participation in meaningful extra-curricular activities.

Eligibility:

Applicants must be completing an undergraduate degree that requires (or has an option for) a year’s industrial placement. A Business or related degree background that can demonstrate sales, finance, business & analytical skills is preferable but not required. A target to achieve a 2.1 (based on results and/or predicted grades) is required.

In addition to the above educational requirements, students must be eligible to work in the UK and be available to commence the placement at the beginning of July 2018 for 13 months.