at IBM in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
At IBM, our clients have the future in mind. Our job is to help them get there. As part of IBM’s Automation, Data and AI sales team, you will work with clients and Business Partners as they transform organizations and entire industries, which means you have a hand in changing how the world works. We’re driven by more than just selling solutions. We want our clients and our Business Partners to succeed.
+ IT Automation & App Modernization Portfolio BPST seller:
+ Responsible for driving brand sales in their client territory through Business Partners
+ BPS’s will identify opportunities to be progressed with Business Partners, coselling with those partners to increase productivity and drive demand generation.
+ Territory and Account Leadership – Develop a pipeline of viable opportunities that exceeds quota, and keep abreast of every prospect in your territory.
+ Client Activities – Actively understand each client’s technology footprint, strategic growth plans, technology strategy and competitive landscape. Negotiate access to key decision makers and facilitate meetings with IBM executives.
+ Business Planning – Develop cooperative closing strategy and tactics with sales management.
+ Trusted advisor – Establishes strong management and CXO relationships based on knowledge of client requirements and commitment to value (value of counsel and expertise, value of solutions, value of implementation expertise).
+ Supports solution cocreation with Business Partners and provides use case expertise for portfolio of Automation, AI and Data offering.
+ Serves as ecosystem team’s liaison to brand for assigned territory; to bring product knowledge to partnership and align sales efforts.
+ Builds a foundation on which to harvest future business opportunities and accurate account information and coaching.
+ Advocates for Business Partners with brand leadership and looks for new opportunities to scale with the ecosystem within your brand and client list
+ Works closely with Partner Technical Specialist on named Business Partners to influence partner’s tech agenda and inclusion of brand specific technology in partner solution within assigned territory
+ Build and share best practice sales, negotiation, and partner skills, sell value, and up sell and cross sell to client base.
+ Maintain CRM system with accurate client and pipeline information.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
+ You’re an entrepreneur – who likes to run a business and know that owning your own growth strategies and pipeline generation is fundamental to your success
+ Face to face customer selling and experience articulating and delivering compelling, industry-focused solutions and value
+ Strong collaboration and negotiation skills with ability to lead the collaborative process with both the client leadership, IBM’s sales leadership, and Business Partner leadership
+ Excellent interpersonal and communication (oral and written) skills at all levels of an organization
+ Experience positioning Automation, Data or AI solutions
+ In-depth knowledge of Markets in order to connect market trends to the IBM Data, AI, and Automation portfolio to position compelling transformation solutions to clients
+ Driven and self-motivated with an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to excellence in everything they do
+ Ability to build and maintain positive business relationships with peers, partners and clients
+ A track record of consistently achieving targets – demonstrating high performance, whilst challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
+ Experience successfully selling into dedicated territory, and running sales cycle start to finish
+ Pre-existing client and / or Business Partner relationships within the Midwest geography United States
+ Strong understanding of IBM’s IT Automation & App Modernization portfolio
+ Understanding of IBM’s competitive differentiators in addition to our competition’s place in the market
+ Experience in leading large complex deals and value-based selling with track record of overachieving quota.
About Business UnitIBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.
Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
About IBMIBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
Location StatementIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to: – Healthcare benefits including medical & prescrip
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