Operational Services Presales Intern - Placement Year

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know diverse 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   The Operational Services Pursuit team is a presales team crucial to the success and growth of HPE custom solutions, responsible for driving and managing customised service opportunities. These are mostly bespoke Operational Support Services for customer IT infrastructure. The team achieves this through solution design and pricing, ensuring our customer proposals are of the highest quality and the most compelling to ensure a win for HPE. The team support the pursuit function of the practice and the sales community to develop and price compelling, innovative, winning HPE custom solutions that enable customers to meet their business outcomes.

What you'll do:

• Tracking and managing the allocation of team resources to new business opportunities
• Reporting
• Supporting deal qualification and approval to pursue
• Understanding of HPE services and proposal development cycle
• Development of winning solutions

Location:

• Winnersh, UK

What you’ll need:

• We are looking for high calibre candidates that are ideally studying a business orientated degree at University and are expected to achieve a minimum of a 2:1 grade.
• A confident candidate who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and can lead by example even in the most demanding of situations.
• You will be working in a constantly changing and fast paced environment therefore you must present skills that show your willingness to adapt to any situation that may arise. Being committed and proactive is key.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint is essential.
• No primary experience in sales is necessary however, you must have solid record of past work experience and/or participation in meaningful extra-curricular activities.

Skills:

• Attention to detail, tracking and proactively following up on actions
• Keen interest in continuous learning and development
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• Ability to use Microsoft Excel for report purposes, to manipulate data
• Understand pivot tables, look ups and to be able to create graphs and charts and show data analysis skills.
• Have a good grasp of Microsoft PowerPoint and the ability/willingness to learn more
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Aspirations to have project management skills – Ability to organise yourself and others
• Logical and methodical in the way you approach tasks
• Confidence in being able to present ideas to higher management

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.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know diverse 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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