Your Role and Responsibilities

THIS ROLE CAN BE BASED ANYWHERE IN EUROPE
 
IBM Global Technology Services is looking for European Geo Open Source Solution Technical Seller to join our team. We are a group of salespeople with cloud subject matter expertise focused on helping IBM clients define and execute on their journey to cloud. We recognise that the cloud strategy for most corporations includes a diverse multi-cloud environment and we want to help our clients leverage open source solutions to solve real-world challenges in moving, migrating, and managing cloud solutions.


As a European Geo Open Source Solution Technical Seller, you will support IBM’s Journey To Cloud growth strategy by enabling our clients to plan and execute on their cloud platform, DevOps, and infrastructure strategies over Europe. You'll be responsible for building strategic relationships with executives and key business leaders to promote IBM’s portfolio of cloud platform solutions, including hybrid cloud and cloud-native application development, and container management.

Your responsibilities include;

• Selling Red Hat based cloud solutions
• Promote the value of IBM services around Red Hat as part of a larger cloud solution
• Advising clients on the best path to move from virtualization to a container based solution on a hybrid cloud using Red Hat technologies and services
• Gaining trusted advisor status with senior IT execs within assigned accounts as part of pipeline development and efforts to develop long term relationships
• Working closely with the dedicated IBM client teams to identify opportunities and provide services sales support specific to Red Hat solutions
• Developing high-level cloud strategies for IBM clients as part of a consultative sales cycle 
• Taking identified opportunities and drive them through a defined sales process to closure
• Leading technical sales discussions with clients from executive to C-level 

 
As a European Technical Seller you should be able to show;

• Proven experience in a quota carrying solutions sales role or other technical sales role
• Experience focused on cloud platform technologies, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and/or other Open Source solutions
• Competitive knowledge of the container industry over Europe including Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, and Pivotal 
• Experience with a diverse set of cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
• Working knowledge of enterprise DevOps processes and technologies
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to generate client materials for presentations
• Ability to collaboratively sell solutions in a high matrix environment
• Balance of sales and technical skills with creative thinking skills
• Experience of Europe wide selling
• Ability to travel up to 50%

 
THIS ROLE CAN BE BASED ANYWHERE IN EUROPE

Introduction

At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something
better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven experience in a quota carrying solutions sales role or other technical sales role
• Experience focused on cloud platform technologies, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and/or other Open Source solutions
• Competitive knowledge of the container industry over Europe including Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, and Pivotal 
• Experience with a diverse set of cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure
• Working knowledge of enterprise DevOps processes and technologies
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to generate client materials for presentations
• Ability to collaboratively sell solutions in a high matrix environment
• Balance of sales and technical skills with creative thinking skills
• Experience of Europe wide selling
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Proven experience focused on cloud platform technologies, Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, and/or other Open Source solutions
• Full competitive knowledge of the container industry over Europe including Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, and Pivotal 

Required Education

None

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Eligibility Requirements

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About Business Unit

At Global Technology Services (GTS), we help our clients envision the future by offering end-to-end IT and technology support services, supported by an unmatched global delivery network. It's this unique blend of bold new ideas and client-first thinking. If you can restlessly reinvent yourself and solve problems in new ways, work on both technology and business projects, and ask, "What else is possible?" GTS is the place for you!

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