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Introduction

The 'IBM Ecosystem' includes thousands of partners who 'Build' on, 'Sell' or 'Service' IBM technologies and platforms. As a Partner Technical Specialist your purpose is to influence your partners' technical strategies, working to incorporate and embed IBM's technology portfolio into Partner's reference architectures, practices, and solutions versus competition.

As a deeply technical seller, you'll increase your partners' technical capabilities by enabling their sales and technical sellers to experientially demonstrate IBM Technology at scale with your clients.

Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. Part of a team, you'll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators - always willing to help and be helped - as you apply passion to work that will compel your partners to lead with IBM offerings when recommending solutions to their clients.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an expert in IBM's Technology offerings and Brand solutions, with depth in one or more of IBM's Brands, you'll support partners across some or all of IBM's Ecosystem Sell / Build / Service sales opportunities.

Engaging directly with partners and clients in support of high value opportunities, you'll help activate partners' business development plans by engaging and pulling together in- country /market IBM sales teams and aligning with local sellers within the partner firm(s).

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Collaborative Partner Strategy Development: Co-creating partner strategies that pinpoint growth areas, revenue objectives, milestones for success, including required skills enhancement and partner enablement for entering the market.

• Effective Partner and IBM Collaboration: Establishing connections between partner and IBM sales representatives in the cities and markets where the partner operates to facilitate local execution of prospecting and lead transfer.

• Enhanced Partner and Client Engagements: Proactively strengthening partner and client interactions with IBM's wide range of technical capabilities, including resources like Build Labs, Customer Success Managers, Technical Sellers, and Marketing support, to jointly devise solutions.

• Consultative Sales Approach: Employing a consultative method to sell IBM's Sales Plays and Technology portfolio to partner sales and technology leaders, showcasing the value through meaningful use cases.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Deep Technical Expertise in Chosen Brand's Product Portfolio: Demonstrable client-facing, deep technical subject matter expertise within your chosen brand's product portfolio (e.g., Openshift Container Platform, Data & AI, Automation, Integration, Security, Power, Storage), with the ability to engage in complex, architectural conversations.

• Excellence in Communication and Collaboration: Provable excellence in people, communication, and collaboration skills, with a track record of networking and influencing, at all levels, throughout the successful closure of complex technology sales cycles (ranging from $250k to multi-million-dollar deals), achieved both independently and through teamwork.

• Attention to Detail and System Usage: Proven discipline and attention to detail with the usage of sales management and recording systems, as well as efficient expectation setting and follow-up practices.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Comprehensive Familiarity with IBM's Offerings: Hands-on experience with any of IBM's products and services (training across IBM's product suite will be provided).

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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.

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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 wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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