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Introduction

Our Marketing, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC) team tells this story and is responsible for positioning IBM in the market. We define and optimize IBM’s brand, capture the market’s attention, and articulate our point of view for clients, partners, the media, and even other IBMers. As part of our team, you’ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our audience to choose IBM’s products and services.

Your role and responsibilities
  • Field Marketing & Communications Trainee
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    At IBM, we believe technology shapes the world, and we are a catalyst for that innovation and creativity. We are on the forefront of groundbreaking change – improving businesses, society, and the human condition.
    Our Marketing, Communications & Corporate Social Responsibility (MCC) team tells this story and is responsible for positioning IBM in the market. We define and optimize IBM’s brand, capture the market’s attention, and articulate our point of view for clients, partners, the media, and even other IBMers. As part of our team, you’ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen collaborators – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our audience to choose IBM’s products and services.
    When you join IBM, you join a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust. Join us and experience a place where you can co-create your learning and opportunities. A place where teamwork and unique ideas are treasured. A place where you can bring innovation to life.Your roles & responsibilities:
    As a Field Marketing & Communication trainee, you will support the development of market engagement plans to drive business pipeline and revenue objectives based on a deep understanding of clients and the local market.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Support design and execution of local marketing and communications plans to support go-to-market strategies
  • Leverage knowledge of multiple tactics and marketing and communications activities in your plans, including, live or virtual events, brand recognition, social media marketing, digital and email lead generation activities, and channel/partner marketing
  • Brief, enable and collaborate with Sales, Clients, IBM Partners and/or internal stakeholders
  • Measure, analyze, and report on the impact of marketing and communications activities
 As part of our flexible and collaborative approach, we invite candidates to enjoy the hybrid experience, working in our office three times a week.
Required education
Pre-University Qualification
Preferred education
Pre-University Qualification
Required technical and professional expertise

Required Experience:

  • Apply Cross Cultural Communication & Teaming

Description: The ability to collaborate and team effectively in different cultural settings and across countries. Practitioners need to be able to adapt and operate in whatever “environment” (physical or virtual) they find themselves. They must be team focused and build empathetic and inclusive relationships, collaborating across the business to drive organizational outcomes

  • Apply Outcomes Focus with Agility:  Embrace a growth mindset and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Actively seek opportunities for growth and adapt to changing circumstances with resilience.
  • Collaborate across functions and businesses to remove barriers to growth. Plan and execute short-term wins to drive progress towards agreed business outcomes.
  • Learn and explain the offering/product set for an assigned business unit and its associated executive’s success metrics.
  • Consider immediate and long-term business consequences, using good judgment and balanced consideration of available information, optimizing the use of data, intuition, and expert resources.
  • Start to develop the role as IBM’s Trusted Business Advisor by applying business acumen to deliverables that have clear value to internal and external clients.

Description: Ability to work in tight collaboration with sales reps, business partners, and sales leaders to capture market demand and elevate the IBM brand. (Owner: Expertise Taxonomy Team)

Preferred technical and professional experience

·      Continuous Learning Advocate: Actively pursue learning opportunities to acquire new skills and stay updated with industry trends and best practices.

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.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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.

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