Commercial Account Manager

Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree desired, can be substituted with experience
  • 5 years of sales experience with Air Force and/or Space Force customers
  • 8 years total sales experience in Federal or Department of Defense environments
  • Detailed knowledge of U.S. Air Force and Space Force operations
  • Secret Clearance desired or ability to obtain clearance

Responsibilities

  • Develops growth strategies through account planning and regular reviews
  • Collaborates extensively with external partners and systems integrators for solution sales
  • Engages directly with customers and stakeholders, from all organizational levels
  • Creates and executes business plans tailored to customer accounts
  • Utilizes consultative-selling techniques to foster revenue growth
  • Maintains customer loyalty through trust-building and integrity
  • Manages and achieves quarterly and annual sales quotas

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits
  • Investment in personal and professional development
  • Commitment to unconditional inclusion and diversity in the workplace
  • Flexibility to balance work and personal needs
Full Job Description
Commercial Account Manager

This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Account Manager to serve as the overall account lead and single point of contact for a portfolio of large to small named U.S. Air Force and Space Force accounts. In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of the customer's key business and IT challenges and requirements, with a focus on driving value for their programs while maximizing revenue and margin for HPE. You will sell across networking, security, data center, and wireless solutions, with an emphasis on growing the existing business, developing complex solutions, and identifying new business opportunities. As a hunter, you will leverage relationships with customers, partners, and Federal Systems Integrators (FSIs) to expand into new account spaces, while working closely with presales account teams, engineers, and the Air Force Regional Manager.

This is a customer-facing role that primarily takes place outside of HPE offices and requires approximately 50% or more travel. Candidates located in the Western U.S. are preferred, with Colorado, California, and Ohio identified as priority locations; however, qualified candidates across the U.S. may be considered.

Responsibilities:
  • Builds growth opportunities using the account planning process; actively manages planning process through scheduled reviews and updates.
  • Extensive time working with and leveraging external partners and systems integrators to deliver solution sale.
  • Significant percentage of time spent directly with customer and integrators; interfaces with all levels within customer organization; highly diverse set of functions and buyers; focus in on management level.
  • Develops business plan in conjunction with customers in assigned accounts.
  • Applies consultative-selling techniques to identify and advance opportunities that result in ongoing profitable revenue growth for the company.
  • Maintains high-level of customer loyalty and builds trust and integrity, as indicated in company conducted surveys and reports.
  • Responsible for achieving/managing quarterly, half yearly, annual quota and/or margin.
  • Enters all opportunities in pipeline tool and updates them weekly. Recommends and Implements industry leading Pipeline management practices.
  • Ability to implement margin recovery activities/strategies.
  • Identifies customer requirements, matches with company capabilities and chooses the respective company supply chain accordingly (Volume Direct or Indirect).


Education and Experience Required:
  • University or Bachelor's degree desired, can substitute experience for degree
  • Detailed knowledge of key customer types or customers on given products.
  • 5 years' experience selling to Air Force and/or Space Force customers
  • Overall 8 years' experience selling in Federal/DoW
  • Secret Clearance desired, or ability to obtain clearance


Knowledge and Skills:
  • Must have good time management skills.
  • Broad understanding of the customer's needs; applies standard as well as creative solutions to meet those needs; particularly considering the specific industry/market.
  • Ability to coordinate multiple internal and external partners on multiple levels to deliver appropriate solution sale.
  • Hi level customer management relationship building, working at management and executive level in lines of business.
  • Partner organization intelligence aligned with partner management skills.
  • Identifies and effectively leads the account resources to ensure coordinated, efficient, account management, and accountability for achieving business results.
  • Relevant knowledge of client's industry; keeps abreast of trends and lead discussions with IT on strategic directions and linking discussions.
  • Knowledge of the company's breadth of solutions and engages specialist resources as needed.
  • Ability to understand the customer's business issues and translate to the company's solutions.
  • Ability to prioritize and drive strategic sales activity on a complex solution basis.
  • Excels in competitive selling skills.
  • Sells across platform and specialty.
  • Ability to provide accurate quarterly forecasts


Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.

Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:
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Job Level:
Expert

"The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.
- United States of America: Annual Salary USD 204,500 - 397,500 in Colorado // 221,000 - 456,500 in California // 194,500 - 456,500 in Ohio
This range reflects the minimum to maximum combined base and target-level sales compensation that would be paid if the hire performs at 100% of their sales plan. Of that on-target pay amount, the mix of base salary and target-level sales compensation is 50%/50%."

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

The estimated job application period closure is December 1 2026; this timeline is provided for transparency and internal planning purposes.

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