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Application Modernization Sales Specialist - DC Market/Southeast
A Technology Sales Representative role (what we internally call a, 'Brand Sales Specialist') in IBM's Data & AI brand means accelerating enterprises' success by improving their ability to understand their data. It means providing solutions that enable people across organizations, in multiple roles, the ability to turn data into actionable insights without having to wait for IT. And it means selling multi-award-winning software, and world-class design practices that enables business analysts to ask new questions. The answers to which are literally shaping the future and changing the world.
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.
Your Role and Responsibilities
At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, let’s talk
IBM is looking for a Application Modernization Sales Specialist who will be responsible for taking the Cloud Pak for Business Automation, Process Mining and Task Management to market. This includes the coordination and successful execution of all assigned sales related activities within an assigned territory or set of accounts to achieve assigned financial sales objectives. This role has unlimited potential and is highly focused on the development of a territory while expanding IBM's cloud software & services into associated industries, as defined. Activities include working with and leveraging other IBM client facing teams to create demand, identify opportunities, qualify opportunities, and then directly executing high quality professional engagements that result in winning opportunities. Successful candidates will exceed assigned sales targets while providing high value customer solutions. Sellers will represent part of the IBM Cloud & Cognitive software portfolio and will become a part of the growth area within IBM.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Multiple years direct, face to face customer selling experience
- Multiple years selling cloud software or SaaS solutions
- Multiple years selling Business Automation solutions and/or Enterprise Integration software
- Multiple years minimum experience selling IT solutions into one of the following industries: Public (State & Local) or Financial Services or Manufacturing or Travel & Transportation or CPG Retail or Federal or Telcos or Oil & Gas or Healthcare etc.
- Functional competence across the Business Automation landscape
- Strong understanding of the following verticals: Rules Management, Business Process, Content, Processing Mining, & Task Management
- Ideal candidates should have a passion for cloud technologies, solving customer problems, winning every time at everything
- You are a hunter who takes ownership of an assigned territory focused on net new logo acquisition and upsell opportunities.
- You demonstrate expertise in building business cases which clearly articulates value and differentiation at all levels of your customer organizations.
- You constantly generate pipeline using creative techniques, tools, team collaboration, industry events and top tier channel partners.
- You can demonstrate a true “value based” sales approach and have experience explaining complex ROI models to C level customers.
- You’re an entrepreneur - who likes to run a business and know that owning your own pipeline generation is fundamental to your success.
- Ability to collaborate with teams within IBM and partners externally
- You’re a pipeline generation master, expert in driving direct sales from first touch to close.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Knowledge of Hybrid cloud solutions.
- Demonstrated multiple years experience in leading complex deals and value based selling.
About Business Unit
With data spread across multiple clouds in different formats it's difficult for our clients to achieve their AI-driven analytic ambitions.
IBM's industry-leading data fabric solution solves this by presenting a 'single pane of glass' view, and a set of integrated tools for business analysts, data scientists, and data engineers to consistently deliver strategy shaping insights. Quickly and consistently.
Join us and help continually introduce new clients to trail-blazing Data & AI solutions their enterprises desperately need, now and for the foreseeable future.
Your Life @ IBM
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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