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IBM is seeking a motivated and experienced marketing professional to support the Value-Add Distributors (VADs) Partners in within the Latin America Market
Your roles & responsibilities:
As an Ecosystem Field Marketing & Communication Professional, you’ll build go-to-market plans in the Latin America Market to drive technology pipeline and revenue objectives with the LA VADs based on a deep understanding of partners and the local market.
The Ecosystem Marketer will help achieve the following objectives for the market he/she covers:
- Grow IBM Technology pipeline and revenue for the Latin America Market through the Distributors. Lead and created multi-program marketing plans across each region and each VAD to drive results across the full funnel, including co-marketing, new partner recruitment programs and targeted enbablement to skill up partner base. Create quarterly and full year marketing plans with each regional VAD to achieve business goals.
- Develop and execute marketing strategies in support of Technology Growth Platforms: AI Productivity, Data Platform and Automation Platform solutions as well as hybrid cloud and storage. Drive tangible and quantifiable results with comprehensive go-to-market execution anchored with relationship and comarketing planning.
- Deepen engagement with Distributors across the regions. Strategically guide C-level stakeholders at Distributor firm and the partners aligned to that Distributor. Be a subject matter expert for partner relationship skills that brings insights back to IBM to ensure it aims to be partner-first.
- Drive consideration and awareness: Consistently improve mindshare within partner(s) and Distributors through market to and enablement initiatives. Collect and actioning partner feedback to drive differentiated partner execution plans and YTY growth through partner ecosystem.
- Develop marketing strategies to progress pipeline and yield: Determines innovative ways to progress pipeline and works across teams to create and execute progression-oriented programs and campaigns through IBM’s partner ecosystem.
- Lead with Go-To-Market Expertise: Expert on IBM’s GTM motions, understand what helps VADs differentiate from competition, able to create a plan of impactful partner programs, and actively coach broader team on how to win in the market with partners
- Brief, enable and collaborate with Sales, IBM Partners and key internal stakeholders. Mentor teams on IBM’s GTM motions
- Measure, analyze, and report on the impact of marketing and communications activities
Your primary responsibilities include:
- Execute across multiple marketing programs of high complexity and influence functional strategy in partnership with sales across all VADs in the market
- Be recognized as Subject Matter Expert both internally and externally with C-Level audience
- Lead programs as well as others in their work, providing innovative ideas, working across multiple business units, and client segments / partners within the LA Market to achieve business targets
As part of our flexible and collaborative approach, we require candidates to enjoy the hybrid experience, working in our office three times a week.
- Ecosystem Field Marketing experience
- Expertise in pipeline analysis to drive results across the marketing mix
- Expertise in partner audiences, bringing insights from the field back to IBM
- Experience in developing marketing strategy and supporting marketing execution plans
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working with IBM Strategic Partners and and co-marketing.
- Data & AI marketing experience