Technology Sales Territory Brand Partner Specialist

Introduction
The IBM Ecosystem includes thousands of partners who Build on Sell or Service IBM technologies and platforms. As a Brand Partner Specialist (Territory) 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 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 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:

• Prospecting & Pitching: identify potential customers and engage with them to present IBM’s portfolio (Automation and Data & Ai) to help solve their business problems.
• 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: I ncrease 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

• Technology Partner Sales Offering Expertise : Possess expertise 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 targets with and through others showcasing high performance and challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.

  *Bilingual (EN and FR)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Comprehensive Knowledge of IBM’s Product Suite : Possess a strong understanding of IBM’s product suite (full training on IBM’s technologies will be provided).
• Understanding IBM’s Competitive Distinctions : Grasp IBM’s competitive differentiations as well as the position of competitors in the market.