Brand Technical Specialist, Integration
Introduction
The IBM Brand Technical Specialist role within the sales process is to fully understand a prospect's business problem and construct a solution around that problem leveraging the IBM Hybrid Integration Software.
The Brand Technical Specialist exhibits a high level of sales and business maturity, operates independently in pre-sales activities and has the proven ability to quickly understand business problems and find the appropriate IBM Integration technology offerings and differentiators.
The Brand Technical Specialist (BTS) represents the highest degree of technical architecture and design expertise within the IBM technologies, process and integration solutions space.
Your role and responsibilities
• Own and progress opportunities through the qualification, definition, proof/evaluation, proposal and closure stages of the sales cycle with attention to timelines.
• Respond to the functional and business requirements and capabilities sections of RFI/RFPs
• Engage with the sales representative and prospect to ensure a prospect's business needs can be addressed with IBM's go-to market capabilities.
• Listen, understand, and analyze the prospect's business requirements and compose, validate, and present the best possible IBM solution
• Define POC/POV or custom demonstration scenarios and map functions of IBM products to prospects' needs.
• Lead team on implementation of Integration POC/POV's and custom demos. Ensure the demonstration fulfills the prospect's requirements and highlight and differentiate IBM Hybrid iPaaS capabilities.
• Define the prospect's target Integration architecture that fulfills their business objectives. Work with the Account Executive to structure the proposal that meets the prospect's target architecture.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• 5+ years practical architecture and design experience Integration technologies
• 3+ years in Consulting management role including, business development, mentoring, technology solutions development, basic marketing and relationship management
• Understanding of business infrastructure technology, network architectures and distributed computing
• Previous experience in a customer facing role with marketplace Integration vendors i.e. Mulesoft, Boomi, Workato, Oracle Integration etc...
• Firm understanding and hands on experience with Cloud providers i.e. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle etc...
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Experience engaging with senior leaders (CxO level) on various solutions and business problems. Able to listen and analyze a prospect's requirements and present to a compelling business value message of the proposed solution
• Experience developing and presenting clear and concise product briefings
• Proven ability to unearth business requirements & Drivers
• Proven ability to map business drivers & initiatives to technology offering & differentiators
• Ability to lead Discovery and Customer First Assessment Meetings to identify business value and ROI for complex business challenges
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IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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- Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
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This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
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