Senior Strategic Sales Executive (Storage Sales) (SOUTH KOREA) **General Information** Req # WD00075799 Career area: Sales Country/Region: Korea, Republic of City: Seoul Date: Thursday, January 2, 2025 Working time: Full-time **Additional Locations** : * Korea Republic of **Why Work at Lenovo** We are Lenovo. We do what we say. We own what we do. We WOW our customers. Lenovo is a US$57 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com , and read about the latest news via ourStoryHub (https://news.lenovo.com/) . **Description and Requirements** For our SOUTH KOREA Region, we are looking for a Hunter who can fulfil these roles: + Entrepreneurial approach that is imaginative, smart, passionate, and approachable + Defining and identifying IT Datacenter / Storage projects in the coming quarters by acting as a trusted advisor to the allocated customer set + Building a future pipeline of new Storage infrastructure business within aligned territories + Developing and maintaining customer relationships to Technical Director level + Keeping customers up to date with new technologies and innovations relevant to their industry + Identifying customer projects and interpreting their technical requirement + Have the ability to build technical solutions working with the wider specialist product and technical community, the sales teams and business partners + Lead and/or provide Technical Input to Tenders / RFIs / RFPs + Gathers information to develop an accurate understanding of customer technology infrastructure + Adapts solution design, Storage solutions to new requirements + Proactively supports the account teams with product advice, presentations, proposal support + Ability to collaborate with virtual teams around the globe + Experience in constructing commercial pricing offerings to customers and partners **Position Requirements:** + 13+ years of experience supporting enterprise sales of Converged solution (storage, networking, virtualization) and/or Storage solution to large enterprise accounts + Understanding of architecture, design, and implementation of modern IT systems and cloud infrastructures + Demonstrate a broad understanding of trends & technologies for storage solutions from Storage leaders + Able to create and present Lenovo technical solutions to senior level clients within the customer and clearly articulate the technical value proposition to the customer + Commercial awareness of the local Competitive Market, business partner objectives and the customer industry environment, preferably in the external storage market and hyperscale cloud industry. + Business planning and reporting progress on regular basis + Able to develop SAN/NAS/Object Storage architectures dependent on the application or workload requirements + Knowledge of the storage interactions and dependencies of hypervisors and operating systems + 10+ years of experience in any three of the following infrastructure technologies: + Enterprise Storage, including Software defined Storage (e.g., Pure, EMC Unity & Isilon, NetApp Ontap) + Public cloud infrastructure alternatives such AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure + Vmware Virtualization (ESXi, vCloud Director, vRealize, vSAN) + Network attached Storage / File Storage (e.g. NetApp, EMC) + Flash Storage (e.g. Pure Storage, Tintri) + Storage virtualization (e.g. DataCore) + Backup to disk / Backup to tape environments + Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent experience. + Excellent verbal and written communication in English language, Asian language is a plus. **Additional Locations** : * Korea Republic of * Korea, Republic of