Associate Partner - Financial Services

Job description / Role

BM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.

IBM is one of the world leaders in IT Services and business consultancy. Our vision is to bring a new level of "smart" to how the world works. A place where people, businesses, governments, objects and systems all work, talk, listen and understand each other. A place where billions of people will live and work better. I

BM Global Business Services (GBS) is the world's largest consulting services organization. GBS provides clients with business transformation and industry expertise, and the ability to translate that expertise into integrated, responsive, innovative business solutions. GBS provides consulting services across multiple industries and covers the whole process chain from strategy consulting through to the construction, implementation and operation of technical and commercial solutions.

The Banking Sector is a core focus industry for IBM globally and in The Middle East & Africa; we want to develop a strong position in the market Your role would be to build upon this and grow the practice in a sustainable manner within the framework of IBM's strategy and associated targets.

The Associate Partner will have to determine and lead IBM's GBS strategy regarding this segment, developing selling and delivering transformation projects. You will liaise with the experts from the service lines at a local and regional level and the international Centre of Competencies'. This position includes the following responsibilities: Develop, manage and grow senior management level client relationships for IBM Global Business Services (GBS) to select, design and implement solutions
• Be a thought leader in developing and shaping the Banking agenda for our clients including defining the opportunity, creating the business case and developing the requirements to implement the strategy;
• Develop and architect innovative and fit for purpose solutions by bringing the best of IBM capabilities across GBS such Interactive Experience, Analytics (including Watson), Enterprise Applications, Cloud and other solutions to bear for our clients;
• Leading teams through all phases of a project lifecycle including developing RFPs, proposals, contracts, planning, discovery, workshops, experiments, blueprints, go live etc.
• Achieve signings, revenue and profit targets and other management decided business objectives
• Develop and maintain the sales pipeline and participate is required internal management meetings
• Take on people management and talent development responsibilities as required

Requirements

• Fluency in Arabic is a must
• 15 Years of Banking Industry Experience
• Big Deals, Large Sales
• Big 4 Consulting
• Strategy
• Digital
• Transformation

• 15 Years of Banking Industry Experience
• Large Deals
• Sales / New Business Development
• Big 4 Consulting
• Strategy
• Digital
• Transformation

IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.

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IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Preferred Education: Master's Degree Commissionable: Yes

About the Company

For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region's technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

Reinvention is a keyword in the company's history and, today, IBM is much more than a "hardware, software, services" company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company.