Posted almost 5 years ago

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Help shape Red Hat’s success within the scale-out storage market segment. The Red Hat Sales team is looking for a Storage Sales Specialist for the telco vertical to join us. In this role, you will serve as the storage sales expert, creating and carrying out strategic and tactical sales plans. This is a unique opportunity to evangelize storage within the Red Hat’s suite of solutions. This remote role should ideally be based on the East Coast of the United States. Successful applicants must reside in a state where Red Hat is registered to do business.

• Provide storage expertise for all the Red Hat account managers in the telco vertical
• Provide expertise to field sales teams who work with accounts serviced by the Red Hat channel
• Meet or exceed customer acquisition and storage subscription quotas
• Create and sustain strategic customer relationships
• Develop and close sustainable revenue across technologies
• Guide the extended Sales team to maximize revenue growth
• Accurately forecast and close sales in alignment with company goals

• 10+ years of successful enterprise storage sales experience, preferably with media or service providers
• Detailed knowledge of telco accounts and technologies
• Demonstrated record of top sales performance
• Ability to communicate well over the phone and in person
• Willingness to travel to customer sites when needed
• Existing executive relationships within the account set
• Storage expertise and experience selling open source solutions
• Knowledge of UNIX and Linux operating systems and cloud technologies is a plus

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