Technical Sales Specialists are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners.
As a Technical Sales Specialist , you understand the client's business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape.
You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate IBM Data & AI portfolio into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions.
Data and AI Technical Sales Specialist will be a technical sales consultant and trusted advisor to IBM clients.
U nderstand the client's business requirements and technical requirements,
A pply industry-specific knowledge and experience, as well as deep product skill and competitive knowledge to bring new business and technology insights to assigned clients, in order to help drive revenue for the Data & AI Solutions portfolio.

You will learn the client's business

Requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape and apply your technical knowledge and experience to bring new solutions to your aligned clients.
IBM is seeking individuals interested in making an impact by helping clients transform their Data Infrastructure and Information Architecture as foundational, to unlocking insights and realise the benefits of AI infused in their business processes.
You must be self-motivated, driven to win sales opportunities, and ready to interact daily with customers, colleagues, and business partners.

Additional Responsibilities

Actively develop and progress opportunities within the Data & AI and Cloud Pak for Data portfolio, mainly around Data Governance, including IIS, Data Stage, Data Quality Optim, MDM, and WKC.
Provide strategic direction to Executive decision-makers related to their Information Architecture to support business transformation and their journey to AI.
Deliver solution workshops, product demonstrations, technical education, and Proof of Concepts while articulating business value for our Data & AI solutions.
Enable, support and work with the Business Partner ecosystem.
Develop re-usable industry-specific assets and demonstrations.
Collaborate with other internal IBM teams to drive unmatched customer satisfaction.
Establish deep technical account relationships at each client site.
Maintain an understanding of the clients industry, including industry trends, industry business processes
Collaborate with IBM sales teams to define, design, and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions.
Support customer technical escalations, on-site health checks, best practice sharing, designing solutions; and answer technical questions throughout the sales process in order to identify/progress/close sales and develop customer relationships.

Introduction

Client Technical Specialists (CTP) are the technical experts and advisors to clients, IBM sales teams and/or IBM Business Partners. As a CTP you understand the client's business requirements, technical requirements and/or competitive landscape. You apply your business insights, build and maintain client relationships, incorporate hardware, software and services into client-valued solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future for both IBM and its clients. Start your journey now!


Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Bachelor s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science
English: Fluent
At least 5 years experience in Information Architecture, Datawarehousing, ETL, Data Integration and Information Governance with hands-on engineering or field technical sales experience
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
Experience using and developing infrastructure solutions including but not limited to: Big Data, Replication, Change Data Capture (CDC), DB2 warehouse, BigSQL
Experience with enterprise scale distributed solutions/databases including but not limited to: DB2, PostGre SQL, MongoDB, Cloudant, etc.
Knowledge of Hadoop marketplace including offerings of Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR
Experience with Appliances like Netezza, IIAS, IDAA
Experience with cloud native solutions
Experience with IBM Cloud Paks