The IBM Brand Technical Specialist role within the sales process is to fully understand a prospect’s business problem and construct a solution around that problem leveraging the IBM Hybrid Integration Software.
The Brand Technical Specialist exhibits a high level of sales and business maturity, operates independently in pre-sales activities and has the proven ability to quickly understand business problems and find the appropriate IBM Integration technology offerings and differentiators.
The Brand Technical Specialist (BTS) represents the highest degree of technical architecture and design expertise within the IBM technologies, process and integration solutions space.
· Own and progress opportunities through the qualification, definition, proof/evaluation, proposal and closure stages of the sales cycle with attention to timelines.
· Respond to the functional and business requirements and capabilities sections of RFI/RFPs
· Engage with the sales representative and prospect to ensure a prospect’s business needs can be addressed with IBM’s go-to market capabilities.
· Listen, understand, and analyze the prospect’s business requirements and compose, validate, and present the best possible IBM solution
· Define POC/POV or custom demonstration scenarios and map functions of IBM products to prospects’ needs.
· Lead team on implementation of Integration POC/POV’s and custom demos. Ensure the demonstration fulfills the prospect’s requirements and highlight and differentiate IBM Hybrid iPaaS capabilities.
· Define the prospect’s target Integration architecture that fulfills their business objectives. Work with the Account Executive to structure the proposal that meets the prospect’s target architecture.
· 5+ years practical architecture and design experience Integration technologies
· 3+ years in Consulting management role including, business development, mentoring, technology solutions development, basic marketing and relationship management
· Understanding of business infrastructure technology, network architectures and distributed computing
· Previous experience in a customer facing role with marketplace Integration vendors i.e. Mulesoft, Boomi, Workato, Oracle Integration etc…
· Firm understanding and hands on experience with Cloud providers i.e. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle etc…
· Experience engaging with senior leaders (CxO level) on various solutions and business problems. Able to listen and analyze a prospect’s requirements and present to a compelling business value message of the proposed solution
· Experience developing and presenting clear and concise product briefings
· Proven ability to unearth business requirements & Drivers
· Proven ability to map business drivers & initiatives to technology offering & differentiators
· Ability to lead Discovery and Customer First Assessment Meetings to identify business value and ROI for complex business challenges