Sales Specialist, Intelligent Data Services

Job Summary

As a Strategic Product Group Sales Representative you will be responsible for driving the adoption of NetApps Intelligent Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) and Data Services (DS) portfolio among Northeast Mid-Market & Commerical customers. You will lead the entire sales processfrom identifying opportunities and engaging key decision makers to delivering compelling solution presentations and closing complex deals. Your focus will be on helping organizations modernize their data management and protection strategies leveraging NetApps innovative cloud and hybrid solutions to address critical business challenges and enable digital transformation. Success in this role requires a consultative approach strong relationship-building skills and the ability to collaborate across internal teams and external partners.

Location: Candidates must be based inNortheast US

Key Responsibilities

• Sales Growth & Territory Management
• Develop and execute a sales growth plan targeting large enterprise accounts.
• Build and manage a robust sales pipeline for DII and DS solutions.
• Deliver accurate revenue forecasts and meet sales targets.
• Customer Engagement & Solution Selling
• Lead customer meetings (remote and on-site) present NetApps DII and DS solutions and negotiate deals.
• Use a consultative approach to understand customer business challenges and develop tailored proposals.
• Manage proof of concepts ROI development and deal negotiations.
• Partner Collaboration & Co-Sell
• Collaborate with NetApp account teams and Partners to drive joint selling motions.
• Engage with partners and internal teams to expand NetApps footprint in enterprise accounts.
• Cross-Functional Teamwork
• Work closely with Sales Engineering Product Legal Marketing and Operations to support the sales process and ensure customer success.
• Coordinate significant projects across functional groups.
• Reporting & Enablement
• Provide regular status updates to management including pipeline and forecast information.
• Identify and leverage customer references for reference selling.

Requirements & Education

• 710 years of enterprise sales experience (Cloud SaaS or Data Infrastructure) with a Bachelors degree; or equivalent experience.
• Proven success managing complex sales cycles and closing large deals.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure hybrid cloud and data protection technologies.
• Experience collaborating with hyperscalers and strategic partners.
• Excellent verbal and written communication presentation and negotiation skills.
• Aptitude for understanding how technology solutions solve business problems.