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Ref: RP805-1980
Job description / Role
Introduction
As a Power Systems Technical Sales lead you will work with positioning world-leading Unix & Linux solutions towards our customers together with our trusted business partners. You will work together with dedicated sales representatives and complement them with a deeper technical insight and an ability to demonstrate our capabilities and advantages. The area of Power Systems is a strategic area specially when it comes to the fast growing containerized OpenShift market and SAP HANA increasing workload demands.
Your Role and Responsibilities
As a client-facing technical sales professional, you will be guided by IBM's purpose - to be essential to its clients; help them grow their businesses by solving strategic and tactical business problems with IBM's proven hardware, systems software and Hybrid cloud solutions. We are seeking individuals interested in making an impact in selling IBM's Power Systems portfolio to maintain and grow existing revenue streams and relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
- Use business insights to understand client's business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape.
- Collaborate with IBM Technical and Services teams to define, design, and detail the aspects and feasibility of proposed integrated solutions.
- Determine customer requirements, create configurations and proposals, respond to RFP and RFQ's.
- Work with the technical team to deliver effective Proof of Concept (POC), Proof of Technology (POT) and support critical situations.
- Actively engage with clients to develop the trust and credibility to help them grow their businesses by solving strategic and tactical business problems with IBM's proven hybrid cloud technology solutions.
- Actively engage your team with clients to develop the trust and credibility to help them grow their businesses by solving strategic and tactical business problems with IBM solutions.
- Apply IBM brand strategies and offerings, methods and models, to ensure world-class design and delivery.
- Apply IBM brand strategies and offerings, methods and models, to ensure world-class design and delivery.
Requirements:
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Experience in Enterprise Unix & Linux Servers Solutions (Preferably AIX).
- Experience in key Enterprise ISV solutions (SAP, Oracle, Temenos, ...etc)
- Solid skills and a deep understanding of Server market and competitive positioning to articulate a winning strategy.
- Possess technical and business acumen to understand the client's business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape.
- Commercially minded and capable of supporting end-to-end sales engagements with the ability to think, plan and act strategically.
- Extensive networking and interpersonal skills in complex environments.
- Solid presentation skills and a deep understanding of Enterprise Servers technologies and how to position winning solutions.
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.