Technology Sales - Partner Technical Specialist

Introduction
The ‘IBM Ecosystem’ includes thousands of partners who ‘Build’ on ‘Sell’ or ‘Service’ IBM technologies and platforms. As a Partner Technical Specialist your purpose is to influence your partners’ technical strategies working to incorporate and embed IBM’s technology portfolio into Partner’s reference architectures practices and solutions versus competition.

As a technical seller you’ll increase your partners’ technical capabilities by enabling their sales and technical sellers to experientially demonstrate IBM Technology at scale with your clients.

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 the primary goal of expanding the capability and capacity of the overall Ecosystem and depending on the market and /or partner growth opportunity you’ll cover all or a combination of IBM’s ‘Build’ ‘Sell’ and ‘Service’ opportunities.

Part technical consultant you’ll build trust understand the value of our partners’ offerings and co-create solutions that demonstrate the value of our relationship. All-the-while building confidence that motivates partners to include IBM solutions at the heart of their client proposals.

We’re passionate about success. If this role is right for you then your achievements will mean that your career is flourishing your partners are winning and your clients are thriving. To help ensure this win-win-win outcome a ‘day-in-the life’ of this role may include but not be limited to…

• Facilitating pre-sales experiential technical activities such as technology demonstrations and co-creation working session that lead to proofs of concept (PoC) and /or minimal viable products (MVPs).
• Leading the delivery of joint-learning activities to build technical skills and expertise of partners which enable co-selling opportunities.
• Continuously expanding essential business industry technology architecture and competitive knowledge in Kubernetes Red Hat Docker Cloud Foundry Cloud Native Security & Infrastructure.
• Championing a culture of growth-mindedness co-creation and technical eminence to deliver value that leverages industry brand and portfolio expertise to drive innovations that accelerate partners’ success.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Demonstrable client-facing deep technical subject matter exposure within your chosen brand’s product portfolio (e.g. Data & AI Automation Security AI Apps Power Storage IBM Z) with the ability to engage in complex architectural conversations.
Provable exposure with people communication and collaboration skills with a track record of networking and influencing at all levels throughout the successful closure of complex technology sales cycles – with and through others.
Proven discipline and attention to detail with the usage of sales management and recording systems and expectation setting /follow-up.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
A strong understanding of IBM’s product suite. (Full training on IBM’s technologies will be provided)