Portfolio Offering Manager - Enterprise Solutions

IntroductionReady to re-imagine the product management role? At IBM, as an Offering Manager, you are responsible for the full lifecycle of an offering: from validating need to determining the business model and defining the solution requirements. Going beyond the traditional focus of timetables and budgets, you use your keen insights into what customers want in their own business plan - and work across disciplines to build the best solutions to a problem. If being the CEO of your offering excites you, consider an offering management career at IBM.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThe IBM Cloud Offering Management team is looking to add a Cloud Enterprise Offering Manager with architecture background to the team. This position will augment the end-to-end solution expertise to enhance our portfolio of Enterprise-grade solutions. This role will work alongside Network, Security, Data, Analytics & Machine Learning offering teams to help build repeatable cross-portfolio solution patterns to ease and accelerate transformation of large enterprises to Cloud.The right candidate particularly thrives in network, security and governance aspects, and has excellent spoken and written communication skills. Key responsibilities will require an ability to assess portfolio investment from a technical and business perspective, aligned with the potential revenue opportunity. Strong offering management background and customer-facing experience are needed to hit the ground running. The role is perfect for someone with a broad mix of technical knowledge, and demonstrated background architecting products and solutions for regulated industries.Key Duties* Analyze strategic customer requirements to distill them into generalized or industry-specific application scenarios.* Monitor competitive and industry trends to better orient our portfolio strategy* Document the supported scenarios, and work with the various teams across IBM teams and provide E2E feedback as early as possible in the development cycle.* Socialize and promote utilization of the supported scenarios with our global go to market teams, seeking periodic feedback to maintain their currency.* Identify E2E portfolio gaps, recommend enhancements and differentiation opportunities across our IBM Cloud portfolio to improve user experience and facilitate adoption and transformation.* Track development and global availability of portfolio enhancements.Required Technical and Professional Expertise* 5+ years of experience as offering management, Cloud Architect or Engineering role in Networking, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application Development* High-level understanding of Cloud infrastructure & industry transformation* Strong business acumen* Hands-on experience with CloudPreferred Technical and Professional Expertise* Product management background, backed with solid technical skills and hands-on experience* Excellent communication skills* Experience working with account teams and clients* Experience with IBM Cloud, AWS, GCP & Azure, particularly in multi-cloud environments* VMware* Network or Security Certification (CCNE, CISSP, or equivalent)* CI/CD and/or Deployment Automation* Experience with containers (Kubernetes)About Business UnitDigitization is accelerating the ongoing evolution of business, and clouds - public, private, and hybrid - enable companies to extend their existing infrastructure and integrate across systems. IBM Cloud provides the security, control, and visibility that our clients have come to expect. We are working to provide the right tools and environment to combine all of our client's data, no matter where it resides, to respond to changing market dynamics.Your Life @ IBMWhat matters to you when you're looking for your next career challenge?Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities - where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust - where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that progress is made through progressive thinking, progressive leadership, progressive policy and progressive action. IBMers believe that the application of intelligence, reason and science can improve business, society and the human condition. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, with more than 380,000 IBMers serving clients in 170 countries.Location StatementFor additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.IBM intends this job to be performed entirely outside of Colorado.Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.