Introduction
A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
Your role and responsibilities
The Solution Consultant is responsible for partnering with Sales Account Managers to drive revenue by helping to qualify sales opportunities and then bring those qualified opportunities to closure. The Solution Consultant will manage compelling solution-based value propositions, demonstrations, RFI/RFPs, technical validation activities, and implementation strategies that address the prospect's critical needs and business requirements. Solution Consultants will lead development of the solution to propose and be the technical resource coordinator for solution specific sales cycles where needed.
Excellent onboarding training will set you up for success, whilst ongoing development will continue to advance your career through its upward trajectory. Our sales environment is fast-paced and supportive. Always part of a team, you'll be surrounded by leaders and colleagues who are always willing to help and be helped - as you support MVPs and proofs of concept (PoC) that compel clients to invest in IBM's products and services.
A Solution Consultant's specific job responsibilities are:
- Perform Discovery: Assist in the identification of potential sales opportunities and in discovering a particular prospect's IT business management challenges and vision for a solution to those challenges.
- Create RFI/RFP Responses: Lead the creation of a response to a specific prospect's request for information or proposal, including creating and formatting the content, ensuring the quality of the response, and ensuring timely delivery of the response.
- Create Presentations and Demonstrations: Lead the creation of specific prospect's requirement presentations highlighting challenges, solutions and value. Align these capabilities with an associated demonstration of solution capability using the Apptio software. Contribute to the overall presentation and demonstration creation enabling the presales community to leverage common created content.
- Perform Product Presentations & Demonstrations: Deliver product presentations and configured demonstrations to prove Apptio's ability to meet a prospect's IT Business Management challenges. The resulting demonstration and subsequent outcomes are initial proofs as to how Apptio can deliver value around IT business and financial management based on what was learned about that prospect in a Discovery session and throughout the engagement. These are to be delivered both live and remotely.
- Perform Apptio Architecture / Technical Components Overview: Deliver an in-depth overview of Apptio's technical architecture and proprietary product capabilities that provide its unique value in the market.
- Execute Technical Validation Events: Manage to successful conclusion the sometimes necessary technical validation events that require IBM Apptio Presales to leverage data and other information provided by a prospect to show that prospect, in detail specific to them, the value of leveraging IBM Apptio's solution.
- Share Lessons Learned: Share your selling and technical experience with the rest of the Apptio Presales team, both formally and informally.
- Provide Collaboration and Support: Assist other Solution Consultants in the execution of the above responsibilities.
- Provide feedback: Provide feedback to product management about the successes and failures in the field.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- 5+ Years experience in enterprise software solution selling or consulting
- Cloud provider certification, either: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience with Application and Infrastructure Management
- Experience leading or implementing one or more IBM Apptio solutions (Apptio, Cloudability, or Targetprocess)
- FinOps, TBM, or Agile competency and/or certification
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Experience with basic financial and accounting concepts
- Experience with common data transformation concepts (API's, Normalization, etc...)
ABOUT BUSINESS UNITIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
YOUR LIFE @ IBMIn 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.
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ABOUT IBMIBM'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 500 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.
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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILSIBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:
- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.
The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
This position is eligible for participation in an IBM Sales Incentive plan. Actual incentive opportunity will be based on performance and the eligible Target Incentive, as addressed in the applicable plan, all of which is subject to change. The compensation range listed for this position is the IBM Reference Salary that is used when you are not actively participating in a sales plan. Your actual base pay plus incentive opportunity will be determined by the Incentive Plan assigned to you.
