Category Manager Storage & Data Services Jobs

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Location:
Malaysia

Category:
Sales

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Job Description:

The Category management function defines and manages the product offering, positioning, and pricing across the product life cycle of a given portfolio, guiding the direct/indirect sales teams on such product related dimensions. They are responsible to plan the business objective for a specific portfolio, and to achieve this plan through on going adjustments of the product related decisions. Acts as the lead expert in competition product knowledge in all dimensions (product knowledge, pricing, marketing, customer requirements). Communicates, briefs, supports direct and indirect sales force on product strategies. Defines advertising, and demand generation priorities at strategic and tactical levels in partnership with the Marketing function. Sales compensated role. Quota is an overlay.

Job Responsibility:

Deep understanding of the category product, business management and sales challenges and strategies
Actively contributes to the definition of the category business plan
Establishes relationships and represents team with sales force and other partners at senior level
Product line and quota responsibility for a significant share of the product range, or a specific customer segment
Functional responsibility for the team in one or several areas (market analysis, marketing engagement, SF communication etc)
May lead a subset of the team
May lead overall engagement with one or several sales teams
May lead engagement partnership with external IT vendor

Requirements:

University or Bachelors degree in Marketing or Finance
advanced degree or MBA preferred
Typically 8-12 years of professional experience with a combination of Marketing, Sales, Business Planning experience preferred
Consumer and/or Commercial Partner management expertise
End User Account management as an alternative
IT industry knowledge
Business planning skills, multidimensional
Financial planning and modelling skills
Strong communication skills at senior management internally and externally
Knowledge of promotional marketing processes and practices
Negotiation skills and ability to frame the product value proposition
Leadership skills and cross functional expertise (sales, supply chain, marketing)

Nice to have:

Accountability
Active Learning
Active Listening
Assertiveness
Bias
Building Rapport
Buyer Personas
Coaching
Complex Sales
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Cross-Functional Teamwork
Customer Experience Strategy
Customer Interactions
Design Thinking
Empathy
Financial Acumen
Follow-Through
Growth Mindset
Identifying Sales Opportunities
Industry Knowledge
Intellectual Curiosity
Long Term Planning
Managing Ambiguity

What we offer:

Health & Wellbeing benefits
Personal & Professional Development programs
Unconditional Inclusion
Comprehensive suite of benefits supporting physical, financial and emotional wellbeing

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 01, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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