Introduction
IBM offers a world-class public cloud. But what sets us and your career apart is our approach to hybrid cloud.
A Sales Representative (Digital) role (what we internally call a \'Digital 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 cloud platforms to develop, run and manage workloads of some of the worlds most transformational enterprises and culturally influential brands.
Excellent onboarding and an industry leading learning culture will set you up for positive impact and success, whilst ongoing development will advance your career through an upward trajectory. Our sales environment is collaborative and experiential. Part of a team, you\'ll be surrounded by bright minds and keen co-creators \xe2\x80\x93 always willing to help and be helped \xe2\x80\x93 as you apply passion to work that will compel our clients to invest in IBM\'s products and services

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a Digital Sales Specialist you\'ll become a trusted go-to expert. You\'ll collaborate with colleagues across the Sales team \xe2\x80\x93 advising and supporting on client engagements throughout the critically important early phases of the sales cycle, and helping to lead German-based prospects to our award winning cloud solutions.
We\'re passionate about success. If this role is right for you, then your achievements will mean that your career is flourishing and our clients are thriving. To help ensure this win-win outcome, a \'day-in-the life\' of this role may include, but not be limited to\xe2\x80\xa6
As Red Hat Digital Sales Specialist, you will be responsible for driving the strategy, sale, and deal closing for offerings within an assigned territory.

• Working with various sources, you will identify, develop & expand on new sales opportunities and be responsible for driving them to closure
• Differentiates customers within client segmentation to effectively target market opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 install, new logo, competitive.
• Aide in opportunity identification from install base and create up-sell/ cross-sell opportunities
• Identify customer business needs and articulate both the value and differentiator of Red Hat solutions and how they can address these needs
• Collaborate with Business Development, Marketing, and Technical reps within your squad on account strategy, demand generation activities, implementation plans, and results
• Facilitate joint account planning sessions with business partners and other IBM brand sellers covering the same territory working together in an effective way to find the right solutions for clients
• Work with tech reps to help design use case and respond to client POC and RFIs
• Understand customer\xe2\x80\x99s buying cycle to be able to effectively forecast likely closure of opportunity
• Qualify prospects, ability to work in a digital setting via video conference and phone meetings
• Professionally communicate with all appropriate levels of decision makers and influencers
• Develop a social presence through your rep page and social media to drive interest and leads.
• Present high-level product value propositions including solutions, features and functions to increase buyer interest using video, phone and web presence
• Build relationships of trust with key customer decision makers and experts
• Achieve revenue objectives based on territory assignment
• Through continuous personal development, you will become a subject matter expert and act as an influencer and trusted advisor for clients

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Understand the Digital End-to-End Processes \xe2\x80\x93 strong working knowledge of digital processes from marketing to consumption and renewals along with ability to make changes when needed
• Prospecting Skills (Hunter Skills) \xe2\x80\x93 confidence in prospecting strategies to identify new opportunities within existing territory and new logos
• Execute the digital sales strategic mission \xe2\x80\x93 understands the critical sales plays and value proposition of the organization
• Agility / Adaptability \xe2\x80\x93 ability to work as part of a cross functional team and able to adapt to constantly changing markets/client needs
• Communications \xe2\x80\x93 (Video Engagement, Oral & Written)- sellers must be able to create engaging videos; ability to write an effective in-mail/email with internal teams, clients and business partners
• Digital Research \xe2\x80\x93 develop business acumen by understanding buyer personas, influencing factors affecting industries/clients and analyzing social media interactions, and competitive insights
• Digital Networking & Content Curation \xe2\x80\x93 leverage seller connections / social presence, by knowing what content to share, how often and to whom; creating blogs, posts, and articles to elevate seller to subject matter expert status

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 2+ years in a solutions sales role with a consistent track record of achieving personal targets
• Proficient at using both digital & relevant sales tools & be confident in engaging peers and making connections
• Candidates with experience in selling automation, hybrid cloud, opensource platforms will be preferred.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills and focus on client satisfaction
• Strong personal integrity and an affinity with technology
• Experience using CRM systems to manage customer engagement

About Business UnitDigital Sales\' in IBM is evolving with a team that\'s being reshaped for an exciting future.
We\'re building the next generation technology sales team to break beyond boundaries with innovative approaches, and new ways to engage prospective clients. Autonomous and specialized, we\'re moving from an approach of just simply \'showing\' to also \'co-creating\' with customers on their business critical, world-changing solutions.
Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation with a cloud solution that doesn\'t limit our clients\' options.
We offer enterprise-grade performance; reliability needed more than ever in a post-pandemic economy, and end-to-end security for all remote work demands. All via hybrid clouds, which enable our clients\' freedom from one premises or another whilst offering your career an abundance of accelerated opportunity in a space that\'s experiencing exponential growth. Now and for many years to come.
This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.
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