Meet the Team  

The APJC CAI Sales Activation team works closely with our APJC CAI Sales leadership in developing scalable, local strategies backed by targeted go-to-market programs. Working with System Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Partner & Distribution teams, Worldwide CAI Sales teams, as well as ecosystem partners, you’ll be an important part of a high performing extended team across APJC Sales. 

You’ll be supporting all of Theatres in APJC including our businesses India, ANZ, ASEAN, Japan, Korea and Greater China. You’ll also support APJC wide sales education and enablement activities that help to realise our sales priorities. To accelerate selling and transformation, this will also include a significant amount of time spent with our largest customers and partners. These partners include the world’s largest storage vendors by market share, Cisco channel partners, and emerging partners with alternative solutions. 

Your Impact  

We’re seeking an experienced Account Executive to join our Cloud & AI Infrastructure (CAI) team in APJC to drive our sales strategy and demand generation programs in SAN networking. The role directly aligns to our sales priorities around software sales growth, customer acquisition and supporting our largest customers as they evolve their data centre networking and compute domains. 

You are a successful salesperson with a background in AI infrastructure, data centre networking or computing related technologies. You have direct sales experience in SAN switching and related technologies. You are passionate about working with different teams, learning about new technologies and developing new sales skills.  

You are motivated to create new sales strategies and programs to create demand for your products and services, progress large opportunities and meet your business objectives. Working closely with team members and partners to create a detailed business plan and then execute on it together is something you enjoy doing. 

You have a detailed understanding of the customer decision making process including key personas, sales stages and how to manage deal risk. You leverage this knowledge to create new ideas, programs and customer demand activities. You have an ability to easily move between customer, partner, account team and sales leadership conversations.  

You are comfortable presenting to customers, partners, internal teams and stakeholders. You are naturally curious about customer problems or pain points, raw customer sales data, and have experience in working with these and other business insights to meet your targets. 

This role can be based in Australia / Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane. 

Minimum Qualifications  

8+ years of data centre technology-related sales experience with a focus on business development and new technology incubation, preferably with experience in SAN networking and/or storage sales to SP, enterprise and public sector customers.Foundational knowledge around cloud and data centre infrastructure including areas such as networking, storage, compute and AI accelerators. Excellent presentation skills with an ability to deliver engaging workshops/seminars to IT and business audiences on AI and/or infrastructure topics. Consistent track record in managing and winning major strategic opportunities in public sector and/or large enterprise accounts. Experience in engaging with IT leadership, business owners, procurement and finance. Proven skills working in a complex matrix organisation.
Preferred Qualifications Bachelor’s degree Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; post-graduate degrees or certifications in business or AI/data science is an advantage. Experience building business cases or TCO models. Delivering workshops around AI solutions, data engineering, or data governance. Track record of growing revenue for new innovative technology-based solutions. 

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