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Introduction

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Votre rôle et vos responsabilités

As a Consulting Account Executive (CAE), you will play a critical role in the success of Hakkoda by leading, developing, and executing sales strategies for consulting services to direct clients (North America and regional focus) as well as establishing, maintaining, and growing our relationships with key technology partners. A CAE helps grow Hakkōda’s business by finding, nurturing, and closing new sales opportunities for our consulting services.

RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

  • Developing and continually enhancing a deep understanding of Hakkōda’s service and solution offerings and the underlying technology solutions and platforms in the data and analytics space in order to effectively communicate our value proposition with a technical or business audience.
  • Continuously seeking ways to enhance your knowledge of our industry, market, and competitors to secure meetings, increase your value to our technology partners, and generate revenue
  • Establishing and maintaining a strong working knowledge of key partner software product features, differentiating capabilities, and Hakkōda points-of-view on their market positioning
  • Identifying target accounts and potential fit with relevant offerings
  • Gathering information related to the target client’s buying patterns based on industry knowledge, relationships, and/or prior experience
  • Identifying target contacts and relationships and qualifying opportunities through calls, meetings, and workshops engaging the appropriate Hakkōda Data Architect during the sales cycle.
  • Managing a disciplined sales pipeline from lead to close.
  • Leading account preparation, background, approach, strategy for qualified opportunities.
  • Identifying and aligning appropriate Hakkōda resources to pursue, win, and manage opportunities.
  • Leveraging relationships at clients and partners for insights and influence, messaging, and overall opportunity support.
  • Participating in meetings and market-facing activities as the "face" of Hakkōda.
  • Expanding Hakkōda’s presence in the region from both a customer and partner perspective.
  • Collaborating regularly and proactively with key partners on accounts, strategy, and events.
  • Utilizing Hakkōda content, event presence, workshops, and partners to help build and enhance a pipeline of opportunities.
  • Build and nurture relationships with prospects, customers, and partners on a daily basis via multiple touchpoints with a relentless focus to source new opportunities and grow the existing services portfolio for Hakkōda.
  • Effectively using Hubspot (maintaining an accurate pipeline and tracking activity), LinkedIn, Google, and other prospecting tools to research target accounts, identify key contacts and craft targeted messaging
  • Becoming knowledgeable and credible around data and analytics at the field/discussion level.
  • Traveling as needed to attend client meetings, industry events, and technology partner activities
  • As of April 2025, Hakkoda has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated in the IBM organization. Your recruitment process will be managed by IBM. IBM will be the hiring entity.
Formation requise
Licence
Expertise professionnelle et technique requise
  • 7+ years of direct technology product or consulting services sales experience with a proven track record of selling data, cloud, analytics, or business intelligence services to clients
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Economics, or other analytically-oriented field
  • Existing understanding of the cloud, data, analytics, and BI technology space
  • Passionate about technology and relentless about providing world class service to customers and partners
  • Highly self-motivated to drive opportunities from lead to closure
  • Proven critical thinking skills to take ambiguous client challenges and convert them into real sales opportunities
  • Excellent written, oral, and social communication skills and very comfortable presenting to small and large audiences of varying levels of responsibility
  • Ability to work independently, with strong organization, time management, and prioritization skills
  • Ability to understand and build long-term business relationships with client buying teams composed of varying levels of complexity
  • Able to learn, research, and grasp complex technical concepts
  • Proficiency in Google Apps (Mail, Calendar, Search, Slides, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Hangouts), Slack, LinkedIn (and other social media platforms)
  • Experience with Sales/CRM systems (Hubspot is preferred) and track record in maintaining sales related information consistently in the CRM system

À propos de la Business Unit

IBM Consulting est l'activité de conseil et de services professionnels mondiaux d'IBM, avec des capacités de pointe dans la transformation des entreprises et des technologies. Avec une expertise approfondie dans de nombreux secteurs, nous offrons des services de stratégie, d'expérience, de technologie et d'exploitation à un grand nombre des entreprises les plus innovantes et les plus précieuses du monde. Nos collaborateurs se concentrent sur l'accélération des activités de nos clients grâce au pouvoir de la collaboration. Nous croyons au pouvoir de la technologie utilisée de manière responsable pour aider les gens, les partenaires et la planète.

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À propos d'IBM

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Autres détails pertinents sur le poste

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
  • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

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.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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.