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RedHat Digital Sales Manager

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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 – always willing to help and be helped – as you apply passion to work that will compel our clients to invest in IBM's products and services.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Responsible for driving overall territory strategy & execution, delivering target Total SYB and Net new for RH products in the Emerging market.


  • Coaches digital squad through the end-to-end sales process, supporting progression and the closure of opportunities
  • Executes digital strategy with emerging territory.
  • Manage Red Hat support team relationship in the territory (Partners/Tech/MDRs)
  • Interlock with marketing to build plan for inbound / outbound campaign to generate pipeline
  • Relationship building with RedHat Geo leaders and Global leaders.


Responsibilities

Account Planning & Stakeholder Management


  • Facilitate overall territory strategy and planning. Contributes to territory planning process for effective coverage plan.
  • Builds and maintain relationships with key RH business partners in territory and engages then with squad members as part of territory management.
  • Acts as squad strategist to better understand client/territory insights; targeted sales motions to drive Net New bookings and New logo.


Sales Execution


  • Understand end to end sales process, and draw upon their expertise to communicate issues, solve problems, and improve sales execution to deliver business outcome.
  • Has strong understand and leverage digital practices and sales tools such as SFDC, Outlook/Sales loft, dashboards, etc. and to ensure effective usability by the sales team.
  • Building high performance sales team through key metrics deployment and performance management.


Managing for Growth


  • Act as coach/mentor to squad members in both areas of selling as well as career development.
  • Inspire team to build high performances sales culture, at the same time focus on performance management of the team.


Required Technical and Professional Expertise


  • Understand the Digital End to End Processes - strong working knowledge of digital processes from marketing to consumption and renewals along with ability to make changes when needed.
  • Agility / Adaptability - ability to lead a cross functional team and able to manage/adapt to constantly changing markets/client needs.
  • Communications/Collaboration - Strong communications skills to be able to collaborate with other teams including Ecosystem, Marketing, Support team and Renewal team etc.
  • Execute the digital sales strategic mission - understands the critical sales plays and value proposition of the organization, roadmap of the mission and evaluating new opportunities to engage.
  • Coaching Skills - ability to coach and mentor squad members on selling techniques as well as ability to provide career coaching and performance management
  • Relationship Management Skills - ability to lead a squad with a growth mindset, incorporating empathy, leadership, social skills and building long term relationship with the RH team.


Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise


  • 8 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 Unit

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.