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.
We're passionate about success. If this role is right for you, then your achievements will mean that your career is flourishing, your partners are winning, and your clients are thriving. To help ensure this win-win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the life' of this role may include, but not be limited to
- Engaging local country /market sales teams, Digital Sales teams, Marketing, and technical teams to activate joint go-to-market plans of high value engagements and opportunities.
- Activating partner capabilities and capacity by executing skills enablement plans, co-marketing strategies, and leveraging promotions and incentives at the partner firm and seller level.
- Collaborating with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to immediate and 3rd party teams whilst prioritizing group needs over individual ones.
- Negotiating to successfully obtain commitment to solutions, while maintaining integrity and relationships with internal team, external partners, and clients.
- Expertise in building and going to market with IBM Power brand sales offerings that drive strong, two-way, revenue generating collaborations.
- A proven, successful history of co-selling with partners in front of their clients.
- Demonstrable success of communication and personal relationship development at all levels across colleagues, partners and clients.
- Experience in driving sales plays, promos, incentives to channel partners.
- Experience in driving opportunity identification through partners
- A track record of consistently achieving targets with and through others - demonstrating high performance, whilst challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.
- A strong understanding of IBM's product suite (full training on IBM's technologies will be provided).
- Understanding IBM's competitive differentiations in addition to our competition's place in the market (full training on IBM's technologies will be provided).
IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The companys Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBMs 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 youll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, youll 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 IBM
IBMs 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, were 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 its 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, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with different abilities to apply.
