A Brand Technical Specialist within IBM zStack will make you a key enabler to how our clients are building modern, hybrid cloud solutions, and modernizing their applications whilst embedding AI into all transactions and operations. A sales role here offers an abundance of opportunity that can only come when you're leading clients towards solutions that over 50% of the planet's IT workloads rely on to complete.
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 our clients to invest in IBM's products and services.
As a Z Hardware Brand Technical Specialist (BTS), you will have extensive technical knowledge to sell Business Unit Technology solutions to clients in order to remove all technical inhibitors to sales opportunities.
Your Role and Responsibilities:
- · Support IBM Z customers to realise the value of the IBM Z platform
- · Work closely with customer technical staff and develop relationships as trusted advisor and subject matter expert
- · Identify and take responsibility for brand technical opportunities
- · Work closely with IBM Z brand hardware seller to create viable solution designs, and develop attractive proposals
- · Work with Account Executives to promote the profile of the IBM Z brand
- · Provide pre-sales and post-sales support to customers to deploy new solutions
- · Support marketing activities such as IBM Think, TechXchange, Z Forum
- · Collaborate with the direct IBM systems team and the broader IBM business
- · Where appropriate, mentor newer members of the team
- · Respond to RFQ’s, RFI’s and RFP’s
- · Follow the IBM quality assurance processes and perform technical reviews of proposals
- · Continually update skills and knowledge through education and research
- · Create and deliver technical presentations including demonstrations, POCs, Customer Education, and Workshops.
- Ability to value sell the technology in a compelling way to teach and challenge clients with a confident and opinionated point of view.
- Strong Hardware technical background and with a high level of understanding of Linux
- IBM Linux or Appliance technical knowledge and experience
- Business Resiliency technologies such as Parallel Sysplex
- Storage High Availability and Mirroring technologies
- Performance and Capacity planning
- Ability to identify, create and progress new opportunities
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Software technical background including basic knowledge of understanding and utilizing open source software
· IBM Z technical skills and with some knowledge of:
o Linux on IBM Z
o Hypervisors such as z/VM & KVM
o Network implementation
o Enterprise Storage
o Enterprise Security
o High Availability, DR, GDPS