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Introduction

The Solution Consultant is responsible for partnering with Sales Account Managers to drive revenue by helping to qualify sales opportunities and then bring those qualified opportunities to closure.  The Solution Consultant will manage compelling solution-based value propositions, demonstrations, RFI/RFPs, technical validation activities, and implementation strategies that address the prospect’s critical needs and business requirements. Solution Consultants will lead development of the solution to propose and be the technical resource coordinator for solution specific sales cycles where needed.

Excellent onboarding training will set you up for success, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career through its upward trajectory. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always part of a team, you'll be surrounded by leaders and colleagues who are always willing to help and be helped – as you support MVPs and proofs of concept (PoC) that compel clients to invest in IBM's products and services.

Votre rôle et vos responsabilités

A Solution Consultant’s specific job responsibilities are:

  • Perform Discovery: Assist in the identification of potential sales opportunities and in discovering a particular prospect’s IT business management challenges and vision for a solution to those challenges.  
  • Create RFI/RFP Responses: Lead the creation of a response to a specific prospect’s request for information or proposal, including creating and formatting the content, ensuring the quality of the response, and ensuring timely delivery of the response.
  • Create Presentations and Demonstrations: Lead the creation of specific prospect’s requirement presentations highlighting challenges, solutions and value. Align these capabilities with an associated demonstration of solution capability using the Apptio software. Contribute to the overall presentation and demonstration creation enabling the presales community to leverage common created content. 
  • Perform Product Presentations & Demonstrations: Deliver product presentations and configured demonstrations to prove Apptio’s ability to meet a prospect’s IT Business Management challenges.   The resulting demonstration and subsequent outcomes are initial proofs as to how Apptio can deliver value around IT business and financial management based on what was learned about that prospect in a Discovery session and throughout the engagement. These are to be delivered both live and remotely.
  • Perform Apptio Architecture / Technical Components Overview: Deliver an in-depth overview of Apptio’s technical architecture and proprietary product capabilities that provide its unique value in the market.
  • Execute Technical Validation Events: Manage to successful conclusion the sometimes necessary technical validation events that require IBM Apptio Presales to leverage data and other information provided by a prospect to show that prospect, in detail specific to them, the value of leveraging IBM Apptio’s solution.
  • Share Lessons Learned: Share your selling and technical experience with the rest of the Apptio Presales team, both formally and informally.
  • Provide Collaboration and Support: Assist other Solution Consultants in the execution of the above responsibilities.
  • Provide feedback:  Provide feedback to product management about the successes and failures in the field.
Formation requise
Baccalauréat
Formation préférée
Licence
Expertise professionnelle et technique requise
  • FinOps, TBM, or Agile competency and/or certification
  • Demonstrated written and verbal communication and presentation skills
  • 5+ Years experience in enterprise software solution selling or consulting
Expertise professionnelle et technique préférée
  • Bachelor’s Degree or similar
  • Cloud provider certification, either: AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Experience with Application and Infrastructure Management
  • Experience with basic financial and accounting concepts
  • Experience with common data transformation concepts (API's, Normalization, etc...)
  • Experience leading or implementing one or more IBM Apptio solutions (Apptio, Cloudability, or Targetprocess)

À propos de la Business Unit

IBM Software insuffle de l'intelligence dans les opérations métier de base, de l'apprentissage automatique à l'IA générative, afin d'aider les organisations à être plus réactives, plus productives et plus résilientes. IBM Software aide ses clients à mettre l'IA en action dès maintenant pour créer une valeur réelle avec confiance, rapidité et assurance dans les domaines du travail numérique, de l'automatisation informatique, de la modernisation des applications, de la sécurité et du développement durable. La capacité d'utiliser toutes les données est essentielle à cet égard, car l'IA ne vaut que ce que valent les données qui l'alimentent. Dans la plupart des organisations, les données sont réparties entre plusieurs clouds, sur site, dans des centres de données privés et à la périphérie. La plateforme d'IA et de données d'IBM met à l'échelle et accélère l'impact de l'IA avec des données fiables, et fournit des capacités de pointe pour entraîner, régler et déployer l'IA dans l'ensemble de l'entreprise. La plateforme cloud hybride d'IBM est l'une des approches les plus complètes et les plus cohérentes en matière de développement, de sécurité et d'opérations dans les environnements hybrides : une base flexible pour exploiter les données, où qu'elles se trouvent, afin d'étendre l'IA au coeur de l'entreprise.

VOTRE VIE CHEZ 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.

 

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À propos d'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 500 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.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Autres détails pertinents sur le poste

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.


This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.