Infrastructure Sales Leader

Job description

Introduction
A Technical Sales Leader within IBM is a proven technology practitioner. Through leadership of deeply technical sales teams, you'll influence clients' technology strategies by leveraging IBM products, services, and people to solve their most complex business challenges.

Managing all technical sales roles at a market of country level, you'll be responsible for the training, coaching, and mentoring of technical talent across your teams. Integrating market /country cross-brand technical leaders, you'll encourage synergies that drive development and growth. For your clients. For IBM. And for our people.

As a technical visionary you'll paint convincing pictures of the future that apply IBM technologies, infused with modern IT architectures, which are integrated with offerings that clearly show customers how their hardest problems will be solved.

Excellent onboarding will set you up for positive impact, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always connected to a wider team, you'll be surrounded by other managers and colleagues. People who are always willing to help and be helped as you scale your business, with and through your team, as they compel clients to continually invest in IBM.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Deep, practitioner-expertise and business domain knowledge in your specialist areas will present you as credible, confident, and convincing. With a perfect blend of deep technical experience and people engagement skills, you'll help your teams articulate the technology decision points (TDPs) and IBM sales plays in the context of your clients' digital transformation ambitions.

Advocating for leading-edge technologies and digital transformation you'll pave the way for your teams' continued successes and development by bringing the full technology power of IBM to your customers. People who will be receptive because of your natural ability to create trusted and enduring relationships that establish IBM as an essential partner in solving their most difficult technical problems.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

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Client Relationship Management : Connecting a broad network of technical experts, serving as the single point of accountability for IBM product and service quality, and playing a central role in resolving client critical situations.

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Technology Expertise : Leveraging broad and deep technology expertise to provide highly contextual insights into the benefits of emerging technology adoption.

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Thought Leadership and Transformation : Providing technical thought-leadership and direction to teams for the client's transformation agenda. Bringing an outside-in perspective while recommending disruptive technologies and approaches to scale new value capture.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

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Client Market/Industry Expertise : Veteran-level technical practitioner experience in one or more client market/industry segments, with a track record of winning through collaboration, resilience, empathy, and innovation. A natural at inspiring and motivating others to succeed in highly complex, enterprise-scale, technically complex sales environments.

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Technical Expertise : Technical knowledge around cloud, data & AI, automation, security, and storage technologies, in addition to deep industry knowledge and contemporary methods for co-creating client solutions, with and through others.

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Communication and Influencing : Palpable people, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven record networking and influencing throughout the successful closure of complex technology sales cycles (including $multi-million deals).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

·  IBM Product Experience : Experience of working with any of IBM's products and services (training across IBM's product suite will be provided).