This role takes technical responsibility for all pre-sales aspects of delivering IBM’s Data flagship solutions through our partner ecosystem to support software sales in the IBM Technology business.
The 'IBM Ecosystem' includes thousands of partners who 'Build' on, 'Sell' or 'Service' IBM technologies and platforms. As a Partner Technical Specialist your purpose is to influence your partners' technical strategies, working to incorporate and embed IBM's technology portfolio into Partner's reference architectures, practices, and solutions versus competition.
As a deeply technical seller, you'll increase your partners' technical capabilities by enabling their sales and technical sellers to experientially demonstrate IBM Technology at scale with your clients.
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.
As a Partner Technical Specialist - Territory (PTS-T), your mission is to work with Clients and Partners to identify opportunities, and progress technical sales that results in client success and IBM success.
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.
- 5 to 6 years of industry experience, including at least 4 years in a pre-sales environment.
- Experience with IBM Technology solutions, IBM Hybrid Cloud strategy and a deep level of technical skills in the assigned brand specialty products.
- Experiential selling including co-creation and hands-on technical sales methods such as POX's for both client and partner
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, and an ability to collaborate effectively with Ecosystem Partners, clients and sales professionals.
- Experience of successfully engaging with Ecosystem Partners and clients to identify, progress and win IBM Technology sales opportunities.
- Experience of working in cross-functional teams, with Ecosystem Partners and a matrix management organization.
- Build deep understanding and expertise of Ecosystem programs, Technology Sales roles, enablement offerings, tools and teams.
- Demonstrate Entrepreneurial Territory Leadership.
- Build deep brand expertise to assist partners to deliver PoX (Custom Demo, PoC, MVP, etc.) to progress opportunities.
Having such product knowledge or similar technology is added advantage:
- Watson.data, DB2 , Cloudera & Hadoop, Netezza, Knowledge Catalog, Data Lineage, Master Data Management, DataStage, StreamSets andData integration & Replication