Storage Technical Sales Specialist at IBM - International Business Machines

Job description
The Storage Technical Sales Specialist will provide subject matter expertise on the IBM Storage Software solutions portfolio to a broad spectrum of sales professionals. This role will be responsible for proactively reaching out to sellers and their customers to understand the data protection needs of their clients, providing solution approaches to meet those needs, and teaming with the local sellers to gain customer concurrence for sponsorship of a solution purchase. During this sales cycle you will be responsible for delivering presentations, demonstrations, and providing technical support during trials or proof of concepts. You will also provide leadership by working with product development and product management on product direction, partnering with sales leaders on key account strategies and competitive positioning, teaming with field enablement teams and the technical community as a whole.

The solutions that you would be positioning and supporting are in the IBM Storage Software solutions portfolio including but not limited to Tivoli Storage Manager solution family including Virtual Environments, Databases, Mail and IBM Flash Copy Manager, as well as IBM Virtual Storage Center solutions such as Tivoli Productivity Center and San Volume Controller.

Candidates should have demonstrated skills in overall storage infrastructure including but not limited to storage area networks, disk subsystems, various tape technologies and software related technologies such as data replication, archiving, deduplication and storage virtualization.

Required

•     Bachelor's Degree
•     English: Fluent