Technology Sales Representative - Ottawa, Canada - IBM

IBM

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Ottawa, Canada

4 days ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Introduction
IBM offers a world-class public cloud. But what sets us and your career apart is our approach to hybrid cloud.

A Technology Sales Representative role (what we internally call a, 'Brand Sales Specialist') in IBM Cloud means a career where you're leading prospective clients towards IBM Cloud Paks and Red Hat OpenShift products.

It means you'll be directly impacting their adoption of next-generation hybrid cloud platforms to develop, run and manage workloads of some of the worlds most influential enterprises and brands.

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a seasoned Sales Leader in Cloud Platform you will be assigned to cover the Government of Canada. You will be accountable for Cloud Platform new contract signings targets and client consumption revenue measured monthly.

In consultation with your extended Cloud Platform technical team as well as the assigned IBM Technology Sales team, you will be responsible for developing and executing a Cloud account strategy for the Canada Public Sector accounts.

This includes cultivating long term relationships, driving opportunity identification initiatives, and ultimately being the Opportunity Owner on major cross offering Cloud sales pursuits.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience in Cloud and/or Cognitive solutions including: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), (PaaS), and Cognitive Solutions (AI) or similar experience in Onprem infrastructure or networking
Experienced level vertical industry knowledge.
Ability to articulate business models, value, pricing and terms
Experienced level skill in Design thinking and Agile methods
Demonstrated ability to negotiate Services based contracts
Ability to develop an account strategy to articulate IBM's unique value to the csuite
Demonstrated ability to negotiate Services based contracts
Experience in navigating procurement processes and contracting operations

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Bilingual in French would be an asset

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.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

This job requires you to provide your COVID-19 vaccination status with supporting documentation, where legally permissible.

About IBM

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 innov