Partner Business Manager - CDW (Chicago, Illinois)

Partner Business Manager - CDW (Chicago, Illinois)

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office.

Job Description:

   

HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is seeking an experienced and highly strategic Partner Business Manager to support and grow our largest partner relationship: CDW. This individual will serve as the primary liaison between CDW and the HPEFS Go-To-Market organization—acting as the strategic architect behind a high-performing, collaborative partnership that drives mutual growth, market expansion, and customer success.

In this role, you will develop and execute tailored partner strategies, recognizing that CDW’s business is dynamic and multifaceted. You will deliver insights that shape our joint approach, strengthen partner engagement, and ensure HPEFS remains the industry leader in financial services and asset management solutions.

This position is ideal for a highly skilled partner development professional who thrives in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and excels at influencing, building trust, and delivering results.

This hybrid position will be based in Chicago, Illinois.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert for CDW on HPEFS offerings—translating complex information on products, services, programs, promotions, and solution configurations.
• Position HPEFS solutions as a foundational component of CDW’s go-to-market strategy; may support CDW in customer-facing engagements representing HPEFS value.
• Develop, own, and maintain strategic account plans designed to deliver sustained partner growth and maximize financial services adoption.
• Achieve assigned quota across HPEFS products, services, and asset management solutions.
• Drive both transactional and relationship-based selling while influencing a cross-functional team of selling professionals; engage daily with CDW teams onsite.
• Build, manage, and convert a robust sales funnel—turning partner leads into joint sales opportunities.
• Leverage HPE executive and operational resources to deepen the strategic relationship and unlock long-term business value.
• Provide business justification, risk assessment, and ROI analysis for partner-related investments.
• Ensure partner compliance with legal, regulatory, and SBC requirements.
• As needed, support distributors managing smaller partners on behalf of HPEFS.
• Potentially recruit and develop new partner relationships aligned to HPEFS growth strategy.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 8+ years of experience in sales or partner management at the end-user or partner level.
• Demonstrated success selling through or with partners in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Proven track record of building trusted advisor relationships and driving measurable growth with key strategic partners.

Accountability, 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 (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 6 more}

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.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied 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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Job:

Sales

Job Level:

Expert

    

States with Pay Range Requirement

The expected salary/wage range for a U.S.-based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

USD Annual Salary: $175,000.00 - $411,500.00

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities.

   

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