The IBM 'Ecosystem' includes thousands of partners who Build on, Sell, or provides Services for IBM technologies. As a Technology Partner Specialist-sell your mission is to cultivate trusted advisor Partner relationships and orchestrate joint strategic planning at the Partner firm level to drive overall IBM revenue growth, wallet share expansion, and technical enablement planning. You co-create business growth plans and gain Partner C-Level support for joint growth initiatives, as well as bring IBM capabilities and resource together to accelerate your Partner's go-to-market success with IBM Technology offerings. As an expert in IBM's Technology offerings and Brand solutions with depth of skills in one or more of IBM's Brands, you support Partners across Ecosystem Sell / Build / Service Motion sales opportunities.
Account Planning & Stakeholder Management
• Develop partner strategy to identify strategic growth areas, revenue objectives, milestones to establish objectives and measures of success with partner(s) including required skills development and partner go-to-market enablement
• Co-create business development plans with partner(s) gaining C-Level support (IBM / Partner), aligned to growth initiatives, and driven by Custom Growth Initiatives (CGIs)
• Activate partner(s) business development plans by engaging local IBM country/market sales teams and aligning with local sellers within the Partner firm
Sales Execution & Cross IBM Engagement
• Establishes a joint quarterly opportunity roadmap and progression management system to address Client challenges, connect partner and IBM sellers, and progress passed leads from IBM BSS and Digital sellers
• Connects partner and IBM sellers in city/country/markets serviced by the partner to facilitate local execution of prospecting and lead passing
• Engages directly with partners and Clients in support of high value engagements and opportunities
• Proactively augments Partner and Client engagements with IBM’s breadth of technical capabilities to co-create solutions (e.g., Build Lab, Customer Success Managers, Technical Sellers, Marketing support)
• Leverage IBM programs to sponsor demand generation, prospecting, or solution co-creation (e.g., Co-Marketing, Cloud Engagement Funds, etc.)
Trusted Advisor
• Ability to connect and communicate with partner at all levels of the organization
• Develops C-Level relationships at Partner firm to influence partner's go-to-market strategies
• Evangelizes IBM Sales plays and Technology portfolio with partner’s sales and technology leaders
• Develops clear understanding of partner's business model as to how IBM technology can help the partner meet business objectives
- Ability to co-sell with Partners in front of Clients using hands-on "show vs tell" techniques
- Influence Client's & Partner's Technology Decisions in favor of IBM Solutions
- Leverage Architecture/Developer principles and Competitive insights to articulate an IBM Technology PoV to convince Partners to promote and lead with IBM Solutions
- Possess a deep understanding of Sell/Build/Service Ecosystem motions, resources and Brand initiatives.
- Experience with Design Thinking methodology
- Prior channel partner Technical Sales experience
- Experience successfully engaging with clients to identify, progress and win technology sales opportunities
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and a matrix management organization