Cloud Technology Sales Specialist - Partner

Introduction
Location: Sydney or Melbourne
The ‘IBM Ecosystem’ includes thousands of partners who ‘Build’ on ‘Sell’ or ‘Service’ IBM technologies and platforms. As a Cloud Platform Brand Partner Specialist your mission is to connect the right technical co-marketing and go-to-market enablement resources with your assigned partners to jointly drive prospecting opportunity identification and solution co-creation. By aligning territory planning demand generation lead passing and sales execution between IBM Sales and partners you’ll grow revenue in your assigned portfolio by increasing your partners’ ‘Sell’ activities for your territory.

Engaging directly with partners and their clients in support of high value engagements and opportunities you will augment partner and client engagements with IBM’s breadth of capabilities to align sales efforts with offering capability roadmaps and shape solutions that support brand-specific business strategies.

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 Cloud Platform offerings when recommending solutions to their clients.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Naturally skilled in developing and cultivating professional relationships you’ll establish trusted advisor relationship with your assigned ‘Sell’ partners. You’ll develop territory plans that identify strategic growth areas revenue objectives enablement goals and milestones to measure successful delivery of your territory plans.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Engagement with IBM Teams : Engage IBM local country/market sales teams Digital Sales teams Marketing and technical teams to accelerate your partners’ success.

• Leveraging Ecosystem Programs and Co-Marketing : Utilize Ecosystem programs co-marketing and sales tooling to drive joint demand generation prospecting or solution co-creation.

• Enhancing Sales Velocity : Increase sales velocity by improving partner lead-passing discipline and identifying and closing partner skills gaps capability and capacity.

• Negotiation for Commitment : Negotiate to successfully secure commitment to solutions while maintaining integrity and relationships with internal teams external partners and clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3-5 years Technology Partner Sales Offering Experience : Experienced in building and going to market with technology partner sales offerings that foster strong two-way revenue-generating collaborations.

• Proven Co-Selling Success : Have a proven successful history of co-selling with partners in front of their clients.

• Effective Communication and Relationship Development : Demonstrate success in communication and personal relationship development at all levels across colleagues partners and clients.

• Consistent Target Achievement and High Performance : Maintain a track record of consistently achieving multi-million dollar targets with and through others showcasing high performance and challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Value Demonstration : Showcase a track record of experience illustrating how technology solutions deliver tangible operational and financial value at all organizational levels (training on IBM’s Cloud offerings will be provided).