IBM Brand Partner Specialist - App Modernisation 

United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Dubai 

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You’ll grow revenue in your assigned Brand portfolio by increasing partner ‘Sell’ activities and overall go-to-market sales execution across all IBM territories covered by your partners. Assigned to ‘Sell’ partners by brand, you’ll influence their sales, technical, and practice leads to increase adoption and co-create on their clients’ solutions with IBM brand offerings over competitive alternatives.

Your Role and Responsibilities

With 1class skills in developing and cultivating professional relationships, you’ll establish trusted advisor status with your assigned ‘Sell’ partners. You’ll develop partner plans for assigned key partners, which identify strategic growth areas, revenue objectives, enablement goals, and define key milestones to measure success.

We’re passionate about success. If this role is right for you, then your achievements will mean that your career is flourishing, your partners are winning, and your clients are thriving. To help ensure this win-win-win outcome, a ‘day-in-the life’ of this role may include, but not be limited to…

• Engaging local country /market sales teams, Digital Sales teams, Marketing, and technical teams to activate joint go-to-market plans of high value engagements and opportunities.
• Activating partner capabilities and capacity by executing skills enablement plans, co-marketing strategies, and leveraging promotions and incentives at the partner firm and seller level.
• Collaborating with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to immediate and 3^rdparty teams whilst prioritizing group needs over individual ones.
• Negotiating to successfully obtain commitment to solutions, while maintaining integrity and relationships with internal team, external partners, and clients.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Expertise in building and going to market with Automation
• A proven, successful history of co-selling with partners in front of their clients.
• Demonstrable success of communication and personal relationship development at all levels across colleagues, partners and clients.
• Experience in driving sales plays, promos, incentives to channel partners.
• Experience in driving opportunity identification through partners
• A track record of consistently achieving targets with and through others – demonstrating high performance, whilst challenging self and others to consistently deliver results.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Hands-on experience in API Management, Kafka or MQ environments, Application Servers or in DevOps methodologies.
• Ideal candidates have expertise in building and showcasing software capabilities in custom demos, MVP’s (Minimal Viable Products) and deeper technical client-specific implementations in POCs and initial service projects.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven record of influencing a wide range of stakeholders.
• Automation Market Expertise: ideally gained first expertise in the Automation market and worked as a valued advisor for clients (training on IBM’s Automation offerings will be provided).
• Experience in API Management, Kafka or MQ environments, Application Servers or in DevOps methodologies.
• Hands-On experience with cloud technologies ideally with RedHat OpenShift.