Job Description

Introduction

The 'IBM Ecosystem' includes thousands of partners who 'Build' on, 'Sell' or 'Service' IBM technologies and platforms. As a Brand Partner Specialist (Partner), your mission is to engage the right technical, co-marketing, and go-to-market enablement resources, which support your assigned partners to drive prospecting, opportunity identification, and solution co-creation for their clients.




You'll grow revenue in your assigned Brand portfolio by increasing partner 'Sell' activities and overall go-to-market sales execution across all IBM territories covered by your partners. Assigned to 'Sell' partners by brand, you'll influence their sales, technical, and practice leads to increase adoption and co-create on their clients' solutions with IBM brand offerings over competitive alternatives.



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

With 1st class skills in developing and cultivating professional relationships, you'll establish trusted advisor status with your assigned 'Sell' partners. You'll develop partner plans for assigned key partners, which identify strategic growth areas, revenue objectives, enablement goals, and define key milestones to measure success.


A natural collaborator and networker, you'll be the lynchpin between partner engagements and IBM's breadth of capabilities (e.g., Hybrid Cloud Build Team, Technical Sellers, Expert Labs, Marketing) as you experientially co-create on demos and prototypes that compel clients to invest in IBM's products, services, and people.


Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Engagement with Local Sales Teams and Partners: Engage local country/market sales teams, Digital Sales teams, Marketing, and technical teams to activate joint go-to-market plans for high-value engagements and opportunities.
• Partner Enablement and Collaboration: Activate partner capabilities and capacity by implementing skills enablement plans, co-marketing strategies, and leveraging promotions and incentives at both the partner firm and seller level.
• Collaboration for Results: Collaborate with others to deliver results, making a meaningful contribution to both immediate and third-party teams, while prioritizing group needs over individual ones.
• Negotiation for Commitment: Negotiate to successfully secure commitment to solutions while maintaining integrity and relationships with internal teams, external partners, and clients.



Required Technical and Professional Expertise• Technology Partner Sales Offering Expertise: Possess expertise in building and going to market with technology partner sales offerings that foster strong, two-way, revenue-generating collaborations.
• Proven Co-Selling Success: Have a proven, successful history of co-selling with partners in front of their clients.
• Effective Communication and Relationship Development: Demonstrate success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels across colleagues, partners, and clients.
• Consistent Target Achievement and High Performance: Maintain a track record of consistently achieving targets with and through others, showcasing high performance, and challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.



Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise• Comprehensive Knowledge of IBM's Product Suite: Possess a strong understanding of IBM's product suite (full training on IBM's technologies will be provided).
• Understanding IBM's Competitive Distinctions: Grasp IBM's competitive differentiations as well as the position of competitors in the market.



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.


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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 StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.



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