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Your role and responsibilities
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced Program Manager to lead IBM Power Ecosystem team responsible for expanding the Ecosystem mission and initiatives. The goal in this role is to effectively lead, manage and optimize the team's ongoing performance and outcomes success in key strategic areas. The role will also focus on driving community building and advocacy, and establishing a concentrated hub of IBM Power Ecosystem experts who foster enhanced collaboration, innovation, and internal and external engagement. The Program Manager will drive and scale adoption of ecosystem programs and work with worldwide internal and external stakeholders to build and showcase a diverse, sustainable, vibrant, skilled community of partners, clients, influencers, and team members, to drive client success and growth.
The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker, strong collaborator, and proactive global leader with a passion for technology, driving the Ecosystem mission through program and technical enablement and consistently identifying new potential partners and open source communities to engage and expand options for clients to accelerate digital transformation. Our goal is to bring together the global ecosystem to share knowledge, accelerate innovation, create joint solutions, and ultimately deliver success to our mutual clients and users.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand the IBM Power ecosystem landscape
- Must demonstrate a track record of strong team leadership skills.
- Work with global Ecosystem leadership to define, implement and manage the diverse team portfolio of tasks and actions to achieve quarterly performance outcomes in all areas, ensuring their successful execution through effective collaboration and strong team engagement.
- Lead strong collaboration with global and local IBM Power teams, spanning leadership, technical project leaders, infrastructure specialists, Ecosystem partner go-to market leads.
- Drive adoption of frictionless Ecosystem programs, strategic initiatives and technical enablement that build skills and foster innovation within the IBM Power Ecosystem.
- Drive Ecosystem partner and stakeholder skills advancement, engagement and acts of advocacy
- Coordinate activities ensuring close alignment and integration with leadership and global team stakeholder objectives.
- Ensure adherence to best practices and standardized processes, tools, and methodologies within IBM initiatives.
- Foster teaming and ongoing cross-organization integration and interlock to eliminate organizational silos and improve the organization's operational efficiency.
- Manage ongoing leadership reporting and communication of team performance against quarterly metrics set; drive intra-quarter tracking and take appropriate actions throughout the quarter to ensure team remains on track to achieve targets.
Required technical and professional expertise
- Minimum 10+ years of proven track record of success. Experience in overseeing team dynamics, and effectively managing a portfolio of team activities and responsibilities to successful outcomes is required for role success.
- At least 10-years of experience in an Ecosystem, Go-To-Market, Technical Enablement or Channel role (Power Systems knowledge / experience is desirable).
- Exceptional Analytics, Communications, Presentation and Interpersonal skills.
- Exposure to working with one or more of the following: ISVs, Global System Integrators (GSI's), Managed service providers (MSP's) and Clients.
- Highly self-motivated, resourceful, growth minded, agile and flexible.
- Ability to work effectively under deadlines and time pressure with a sense of urgency to drive successful outcomes with proven problem solving skills.
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