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WW Sales Leader, Data Platform

AT IBM
IBM

WW Sales Leader, Data Platform

Waltham, MA

Introduction

A Technical Sales Leader within IBM is a proven technology practitioner. Through leadership of deeply technical sales teams, you'll influence clients' technology strategies by leveraging IBM products, services, and people to solve their most complex business challenges.

A natural at inspiring and motivating others, you'll support multi-skilled teams of exceptional sales and technical talent as the go to market leader in our Data Platform business. You will work closely with product management, Marketing, and Market Sales Leaders to help build Sales and Go-To Market tactics. You will be the top-level expert for your specific product set and will deliver enablement's and customer briefings to various stakeholders and clients.

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Excellent onboarding will set you up for positive impact, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always connected to a wider team, you'll be surrounded by other managers and colleagues. People who are always willing to help and be helped as you scale your business, with and through your team, as they compel clients to continually invest in IBM.

Your role and responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities will include actions related to building a strong Go To Market :

  • Sales Focus: Helping to drive sales tactics with focus around enabling market and geo leaders. Partnering with sales leaders to help work key strategic deals as the SME leader. Delivering client briefings, market driven webinars, and speaking at conferences
  • Pipeline Focus: Developing sales campaigns & plans to enable market leaders and sales rep to build pipeline. Creating content & motions that will help drive action leading to pipeline growth & won deals.
  • Strategy Focus: Building out enablement plans that will help sales leaders grow and understand the market better. Working with product and marketing to help drive product roadmap and alignment around key marketing events.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

  • Technology Sales Expertise: Proficiency in technology sales, specializing in all things related to data, including databases, data lake house methodology, governance, machine learning and AI,
  • Technical Acumen: Strong technical understanding of data architecture, Hyperscalers, and related integration technology
  • Ability to create sales related content: Exceptional communication skills to be able to deliver training sessions to sales and technical sales teams. Ability to create relevant content and understand what sellers need to be successful.
  • Agile and Modern Sales Approach: Proficiency in agile and modern sales techniques for quick and effective delivery.
  • Familiarity with Competitor Technology Stacks: Prior experience working with or competing against technology providers like Databricks, Oracle, AWS, GCP, Microsoft and Snowflake

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise

  • Familiarity with IBM's Products and Services: Prior experience working with any of IBM's products and services with a preference for experience within Data architecture related technologies.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company's Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM's global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients' growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

  • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
  • 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
  • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
  • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Client-provided location(s): Massachusetts, USA
Job ID: IBM-36895
Employment Type: Other

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