Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM, in support of Acoustic is searching for a Commercial Operations Leader to join our organization. As a Commercial Operations, you will primarily be responsible for leading the harmonization between Sales Operations and Marketing Operations.

Additional Responsibilities include:

• Define market and customer segments and quantify the respective opportunity

• Establish sales territories and design sales coverage model to cover customer segments

• Participate in the creation of the comprehensive channels program

• Establish the right rigor and discipline to monitor pipeline on a recurring basis and ensure accuracy of forecasts

• Partner with sales team throughout the sales cycle (from quoting and proposal to post-sale feedback) to ensure high levels of operational excellence and customer satisfaction

• Create the infrastructure of technology, metrics and data analytics that generate advanced business intelligence to guide commercial decisions and drive accountability for results

• Establish and maintain current client and prospect database to ensure there is no daylight between marketing and sales

• Manage the sales budget and recommend the required trade-offs to ensure required resources are in place while optimizing the cost structure

• Provide input into the marketing budget

• Create sales compensation plans for 2020 considering granular growth plan at territory and customer levels

• Participate the in the creation of the overall Acoustic business plan

• Create and maintain current and out-quarter sales dashboards

• Own the sales HC plan

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Previous commercial operations leadership (brings a proven toolkit)

• Track record of:

• accelerating sales growth

• identifying growth opportunities with a strategic mindset

• maximizing market penetration

• optimizing sales resources

• driving accountability through process rigor

• Depth of experience in Sales, with desired mix of experience in Marketing and/or Operations

• Experience with complex sales organizations

• Experience with capability building – teams, processes, tools, systems

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with B2b Marketing Solutions

About Business Unit

At IBM Cognitive Applications, we build open applications that unlock the power of data for clients, partners, and developers. Running on top of IBM's unique Hybrid, Multi-cloud and AI infrastructures, these applications work across horizontal domains and bring our technology to life for end users. Cognitive Applications unit includes: Watson Customer Engagement, Watson IoT, Watson Media and Weather, Talent & Collaboration, Digital Growth & Commerce, and IBM Developer teams.

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Location Statement

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