Partner Technical Specialist-Storage

Introduction
We live in an era of remarkable change and opportunity. Businesses in every industry need a secure AI infused hybrid cloud platform to deliver insights and enriched customer experiences. IBM is at the forefront of leading that change and is currently seeking an IBM Z Hardware Brand Technical Specialist to lead and engage with our clients in their digital transformation journey with the most advanced computing platform – the IBM Z platform. IBM Z is the premier platform for mission-critical applications and provides the highest-level of data privacy security and resiliency for our clients computing infrastructure.

IBM Z Hardware Brand Technical Specialists are the technical experts and advisors to clients IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. You understand the client’s business requirements technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights build and maintain client relationships incorporate hardware software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions.

Your Role and Responsibilities
With the primary goal of expanding the capability and capacity of the overall Ecosystem and depending on the market and /or partner growth opportunity you’ll cover all or a combination of IBM’s ‘Sell’ and ‘Service’ opportunities. As technical consultant you’ll build trust understand the value of our partners’ offerings and co-create solutions that demonstrate the value of our relationship. All-the-while building confidence that motivates partners to include IBM solutions at the heart of their client proposals.

Your primary responsibilities will include:
Developing trusting relationships you’ll work with clients to shape the future of their technology landscape.
As we help you combine your technical education with consultative sales best practices you will accelerate enterprises’ success by providing award winning solutions across Hybrid Cloud Data & AI and Data Resilience.

• Solution-Selling: Learn and employ solution-selling techniques to identify and engage decision makers and influencers qualify business opportunities and respond to client needs.
• Client Management: Manage a dedicated client set and define confirm and communicate the differentiated value of IBM’s technology at both the technical and business level.
• Sales Process Management: Manage the entire sales process and ensure delivery against KPIs with a strong emphasis on new business sales while expanding existing accounts.
• Collaboration with IBM Ecosystem: Collaborate with the broader IBM sales ecosystem from Marketing to Sales and technical colleagues to IBM Business Partners in order to build sales campaigns and incremental pipeline.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
To be successful in this role you will need:

• Communication Skills: Possess excellent communication and presentation skills that are engaging compelling and influential.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience:

• 10 years and above IT industry working experiences.
• Depth and breadth of knowledge regarding the Storage market in order to consult and advise and quickly grow your reputation as your clients’ credible trusted advisor.
• Familiar with all kind of storage solution offerings include SAN File sharing data backup/archive software define storage.
• Understand the urgence in enterprise data resilience provide right suggestions on data operation needs include DR and airgap.
• Rich knowledge in open source community especially on Linux and OCP planning implementation and architecture design.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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