These roles will use the infrastructure in IBM to sell offerings to the customer base in your country, using the web and the phone. The products sold will typically fall into the Hardware, Software or Services category, and on larger sales opportunities may in fact involve a number of these in the same engagement to meet the customer’s needs.

Key Skills
• Plan a strategic relationship with your customers and build up effective and productive business relationships with key decision makers
• Plan and conduct negotiations with customers to drive lasting agreements and commitments and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction is maintained
• Manage a pipeline of opportunities through web and telephone interactions with the customer set, thus driving revenue and maximising the opportunity for IBM
• If required, work with the customer to develop an effective solution strategy that meets their needs, and also harness other parts of IBM to deliver that
• Commit to and deliver results linked to monthly, quarterly and annual targets and forecasted sales achievements

The Requirements
• You need excellent communications skills, this is the core requirement to be able to successfully close a deal.
• You must have prior sales experience, and preferably within a technology environment
• You need to be fluent in your English, you will be selling to a customer set with that same language
• In addition to native language, the common language in use in IBM is English so you will need to be proficient in that language also. In general, given that we service multiple language groups onsite, fluency in many languages is a definite plus
• Preferably you will have a University degree, ideally but not exclusively in a business or IT related discipline