Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Infrastructure Services Sales Lead

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The IS Sales Lead is responsible for selling solutions that address their client's business needs and delivering client value while supporting IBM business strategies. He/She will responsible for driving GTS Infrastructure Services signings and "as a Service" revenue across the assigned territory for a particular service line.

Responsibilities

- IS Solution Sales : The Sales Lead will manage infrastructure solution sales for Infrastructure Services and work with a team of sales representatives to meet/exceed key business measurements and reporting requirements.
- Quota : Is assigned and responsible for meeting and/or exceeding a discrete revenue, signings and profit sales target assigned by management.
- Customer Strategies : Understands the client's strategic business objectives and business processes/metrics, including their organization, financial decision-making process and business challenges.
- Opportunity Progression : Responsible for opportunity progression for a specific portfolio of offerings
- Client Relationship : Responsible for client relationship in the selected accounts
- Purchasing Process : Understanding of customer purchasing processes in the territory they are covering
- Account Planning and Coordination : Regularly attends and contributes during team meetings on topics such as planning, execution, etc
- Internal Coordination : Experience in navigating internal processes to secure appropriate approvals on customer engagements
- Opportunity Ownership : Personally responsible for progressing opportunities and/or discrete elements of a specific customer opportunity and recording relevant activity in the sales management systems.
- Coordinating Team Resources : Should understand and navigate IBM to identify, acquire and coordinate the team of resources required to address client needs
- Technical Acumen : Engage in regular calls with Service Line leaders to discuss sales opportunities, understand market responsiveness to IBMs technical solutions, and learn about IBM solutions.