Introduction
Are you looking to kick-start your career in technology with a structured development path and fast-track growth opportunities? Our IBM Tech Sales Accelerator Program is designed for ambitious graduates, offering hands-on training, mentorship, and real-world experience within IBM Digital Sales. Over 12 months, you will work in out talent hub based in Valencia, gaining critical skills before transitioning into your next career step as Data & AI Seller in Germany, Austria or Switzerland.
As a Digital Sales Specialist, you will be at the forefront of IBM's digital sales initiatives, leveraging your technical and sales skills to drive the strategic growth of IBM's Software and Infrastructure. You'll work with clients, to shape the future of their technology landscape, advising and supporting on client engagements throughout the critically important early phases of the sales cycle and helping to lead prospects to our award winning cloud solutions. Leveraging a broad ecosystem of business partners and colleagues you will ensure timely closure of identified business. As we help you combine your technical education with consultative sales best practices, you will accelerate enterprises' success by providing award winning solutions across Data & AI, Cloud, Sustainability, Automation and many more.
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Your role and responsibilities
Your primary role as a Digital Sales Representative within IBM's Data & AI brand will involve identifying potential clients, understanding their business needs, and presenting tailored IBM solutions that leverage AI and data analytics to drive efficiencies, innovation, and profitability. You will help to provide solutions that enable people across organizations, in multiple roles, the ability to turn data into actionable insights without having to wait for IT. And it means helping to sell multi-award winning software, and world-class design practices that enables business analysts to ask new questions. The answers to which are literally shaping the future and changing the world. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the Sales team.
Your primary responsibilities will include:
• Collaboration with IBM Ecosystem: Collaborate with the broader IBM sales ecosystem, from Marketing to Sales and technical colleagues, to IBM Business Partners.
• Develop Collaborative Campaigns: Leverage the Ecosystem to develop business campaigns and new and up/cross-sell sales opportunities within your defined client & partner territory
• Sales Process Management: Manage the entire sales process and ensure delivery against KPIs, with a strong emphasis on new business sales, while expanding existing accounts.
• Forecasting and Deal Closures: Predicting deal closures and effectively communicating forecasts.
• Use-Case Development: Creating use-cases and proofs of concept in response to client RFIs.
• Value Proposition Presentation: Compellingly presenting high-level value propositions.
• Solution-Selling: Learn and employ solution-selling techniques to identify and engage decision makers and influencers, qualify business opportunities, and respond to clients' needs.
• Client relationship management: Manage a dedicated client set and define, confirm and communicate the differentiated value of IBM's technology at both the technical and business level.
• Business Partner relationship management: Manage IBM partner relationships, ensuring mutual growth and business objectives alignment.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Education: Completed technical or business administration degree, minimum requirement is a Bachelor's Degree.
- Communication and Language Skills: Possess excellent communication and presentation skills that are engaging, compelling and influential.
- English: Full professional proficiency
- German: Native proficiency
- Analytical Skills with a focus on using data for decision-making and achieving positive business outcomes.
- Team player with a collaborative spirit, able to work across multiple functions and levels within IBM and partners.
- Previous experience in Sales (1-3 years), as Business Developer and/or Territory Account Manager would be beneficial.
- Understanding of the IT industry
Preferred technical and professional experience
IBM is seeking a dynamic, enthusiastic, and results-oriented Digital Sales Specialist with a profound passion for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data. This role requires a blend of hunting for new business opportunities and nurturing existing client relationships, specializing in IBM's solutions portfolio.
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.
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