Your Role and Responsibilities
With the primary goal of expanding the capability and capacity of the overall Ecosystem, and depending on the market and /or partner growth opportunity, you'll cover all or a combination of IBM's 'Build', 'Sell' and 'Service' opportunities,
Part technical consultant, you'll build trust, understand the value of our partners' offerings, and co-create solutions that demonstrate the value of our relationship. All-the-while building confidence that motivates partners to include IBM solutions at the heart of their client proposals.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
Facilitation of Pre-Sales Technical Activities : Facilitate pre-sales, experiential technical activities such as technology demonstrations and co-creation working sessions that lead to proofs of concept (PoC) and/or minimal viable products (MVPs).
Leadership in Building Technical Skills : Lead the delivery of joint-learning activities to build technical skills and expertise of partners, enabling co-selling opportunities.
Continuous Knowledge Expansion : Continuously expand essential business, industry, technology, architecture, and competitive knowledge in Kubernetes, Red Hat, Docker, Cloud Foundry, Cloud Native Security, and Infrastructure.
- Fostering a Growth-Minded Culture : Encourage a culture of growth-mindedness, co-creation, and technical eminence to deliver value that leverages industry, brand, and portfolio expertise to drive innovations that accelerate partners' success.
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.Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 1. Business Development – Ability to identify, create and progress new opportunities as measured by Tech OI and technical activities. This includes teaming with technical peers in other Business Units to pinpoint cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
2.Strong Storage specific technical skills and deep knowledge in the specialties: Disk, Tape, SAN, Software Defined Storage, Data protection, Cyber resilience and Disaster Recovery.
3.Ability to customize and deliver technical accelerators to progress opportunities. This includes but is not limited to demonstrations, workshops and Proof-of-Concepts.
4.Experiential selling – ability to value sell the technology in a compelling way to teach and challenge clients (Show not Tell) with a confident and opinionated point of view.
5.Understands how to leverage technical accelerators to win architectural battles and Technology Decision
Points as applicable.
6.Ability to accelerate adoption of solutions with proven use cases by partnering with other teams
7.Ability to enable and assist Ecosystem selling of IBM Storage technologies to scale IBM Storage base and reach revenue targets.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
Technical knowledge at certain degree on Hyperswap solutions such as FlashSystems as well as San Volume Controller and Stretched Clusters solutions, Storage products redundancy and solution components redundancy embracing hardware and software components.Technical knowledge at a certain degree on Copy Services Technics used to create DR Disk solutions. Traditional backup solutions should also be included Disk and Tape to cloud integration.
Other Relevant Job Details
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.Introduction
A Technology Sales Engineer role (what we internally call a, 'Brand Technical Specialist') within IBM storage means co-creating with clients and colleagues in one of the most trusted, respected and awarded teams in it's space. When clients want cyber resiliency they think of IBM Storage. A career with us gives you exceptional sales exposure to the latest technology; the brightest thought-leaders to learn from; and the most influential clients to help shape the world with. 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 our clients to invests in IBM's products and services.Wonder if IBM is the one for you?
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