IBM APAC Commercial Sales Manager - Apptio 

Singapore, Singapore 

243656901

As a First Line Manager for the Apptio Commercial Sales Team, you will establish a transparent, results-orientated culture, anticipating, and identifying best practices and inhibitors to accelerate business outcomes and drive performance across your territory. You will help hire, train, and build the Apptio business in the Commercial market segment for your territory. You will own the results of your work, and be responsible for all Commercial sales of Apptio products throughout the APAC region.
Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always connected to a wider team, you’ll be surrounded by other leaders and colleagues who care about your success.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Inspire and motivate your team to perform at their full potential
• Track, manage and coach to leading indicators and KPIS for pipeline creation and deal progression
• Review sales calls and coach reps to improve performance
• Enforce and coach to existing Apptio sales playbook and processes
• Work with senior leadership to experiment and improve on existing sales tactics and methods
• Identify and act upon areas of improvement. Get one step better every day
• Create and run a weekly and monthly management system to identify and correct gaps, improve performance, and accurately forecast your business to senior leadership
• Identify and effectively communicate market and product trends to Product Management
• Work with marketing and SDR team to ensure appropriate marketing assets and inbound leads to support pipeline generation
• Work with our partner eco-system to scale the motion
• Win new clients. Own and exceed quota for your assigned territory

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience as a first line manager in a sales function
• Demonstrated success owning and executing full sales cycles
• High degree of technical acumen
• Growth mindset
• Experience working with cloud technologies, FinOps, or other applicable enterprise software
• Excellent people, communication, and collaboration skills, with a proven record of senior leadership networking, and influencing throughout the successful closure, and post-closure expansion of complex technology sales cycles.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience working in and with a structured selling system (Sandler, MEDDIC, Force Management)