Brand Sales Specialist – IBM Storage

  • Sales
  • Entry Level

Brand Sales Specialist – IBM Storage

  • Sales
  • Entry Level

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
A natural at inspiring and motivating others, you’ll support multi-skilled teams of exceptional sales and technical talent to identify, qualify and develop ‘trusted-advisor’ relationships with their clients. The results of which will persuade them to invest in our contemporary cloud, data, AI, and automation offerings.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Tech Sales and Technical Expertise: Blend tech sales expertise with technical knowledge for trusted client engagements.
  • Revenue Planning: Create plans for new and recurring revenue.
  • Customer Relationship Management: Maintain customer relationships with success measures such as NPS, C-SAT, and ARR.
  • Rich experience with in-depth selling skills on Storage solution and Software Defined Storage and Data management solution
  • Work independently and strength in leveraging difference resources to achieve goal and objective


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Tech Sales Expertise: Deep expertise in tech sales, covering cloud, data, AI, security, storage, and automation.
  • Client-Centric Technical Acumen: Strong technical acumen for aligning client needs with value-driven solutions.
  • Quota Overachievement: Consistently over-achieving sales quotas in complex tech environments.
  • Communication & Networking Excellence: Excellent people, communication, and C-suite networking skills.
  • Agile Sales Proficiency: Proficiency in agile and modern sales methodologies for nimble success.


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.
  • Team Work and Collaboration: Work and execute to achieve objective together with cross team collaboration. Team work with different business units to achieve target
  • Proactive Engagement: Self-motivated and able to work independently to achieve mission. Be able to draw and leverage different source of resources to achieve mission

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About Business Unit

IBM 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 @ IBM

In 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 IBM

IBM’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 Statement

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


Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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