Storage Brand Partner Specialist- Ohio

Introduction
The ‘IBM Ecosystem’ includes thousands of partners who ‘Build’ on ‘Sell’ or ‘Service’ IBM technologies and platforms. As a Brand Partner Specialist (Partner) your mission is to engage the right technical co-marketing and go-to-market enablement resources which support your assigned partners to drive prospecting opportunity identification and solution co-creation for their clients.

You’ll grow revenue in your assigned Brand portfolio by increasing partner ‘Sell’ activities and overall go-to-market sales execution across all IBM territories covered by your partners. Assigned to ‘Sell’ partners by brand you’ll influence their sales technical and practice leads to increase adoption and co-create on their clients’ solutions with IBM brand offerings over competitive alternatives.

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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

With 1st class skills in developing and cultivating professional relationships you’ll establish trusted advisor status with your assigned ‘Sell’ partners. You’ll develop partner plans for assigned key partners which identify strategic growth areas revenue objectives enablement goals and define key milestones to measure success.

A natural collaborator and networker you’ll be the lynchpin between partner engagements and IBM’s breadth of capabilities (e.g. Hybrid Cloud Build Team Technical Sellers Expert Labs Marketing) as you experientially co-create on demos and prototypes that compel clients to invest in IBM’s products services and people.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Engagement with Local Sales Teams and Partners: Engage local country/market sales teams Digital Sales teams Marketing and technical teams to activate joint go-to-market plans for high-value engagements and opportunities.

• Partner Enablement and Collaboration: Activate partner capabilities and capacity by implementing skills enablement plans co-marketing strategies and leveraging promotions and incentives at both the partner firm and seller level.

• Collaboration for Results: Collaborate with others to deliver results making a meaningful contribution to both immediate and third-party teams while prioritizing group needs over individual ones.

• Negotiation for Commitment: Negotiate to successfully secure commitment to solutions while maintaining integrity and relationships with internal teams external partners and clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven Experience in prospecting deal progression and quota achievement in Storage and Data Solutions.
• Proven Co-Selling Success: Have a proven successful history of co-selling with partners in front of their clients.
• Effective Communication and Relationship Development: Demonstrate success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels across colleagues partners and clients.
• Consistent Target Achievement and High Performance: Maintain a track record of consistently achieving targets with and through others showcasing high performance and challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.
• Strong prospecting and lead generation coupled with Ecosystem Experience.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Comprehensive Knowledge of IBM’s Product Suite: Have a strong understanding of IBM’s product suite (full training on IBM’s technologies will be provided).
• Understanding IBM’s Competitive Distinctions: Grasp IBM’s competitive differentiation as well as the position of competitors in the market.