Marketing & Event/ Operational Coordinator at IBM - International Business Machines

Detailed Description
Over the past 100 years, IBMers all over the globe have helped make the world work better and smarter. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things: Changing how we create, collaborate, analyze and engage. From transforming healthcare to improving the retail shopping experience - it’s what IBMers do. In Africa, we’ve been changing the way the continent does business for more than 50 years, and as our company continues to grow, we’re looking for talented professionals to join us in this new era.

The primary role of the Centre is to accelerate the sales cycle and reduce the cost of sale - by providing an environment where Technical Sales Specialists and Architects provide our customers with hands-on touch and feel of the technical capabilities of our products and solutions. The Centre provides the facilities that go far beyond standard demonstrations which run on a single ThinkPad. A key feature of the program is the "Proof of Technology" (PoT). Engaging customers to participate in a PoT has been shown to reduce the need to perform lengthy, complex and costly onsite Proof of Concepts. Maximising sales success while reducing the cost of sale

Responsibilities

• Plan, organise and run the logistics for events run in the Centre both in a reactive request mode and a proactive interlock mode to the Marketing, Technical and Sales teams.
• Manage from start to finish request of event - confirm attendee numbers and names, customer, packing/logistics etc
• Initiate and coordinate training for the IBM Cloud platform
• Initiate Customer Engagement as regards Ecosystem development
• Timely submission of Marketing KPI and results
• Manage accurate pipeline
• Align with the center managers strategy and execution plan
• Align marketing strategy with Client centre manager strategy
• Attain WATSON SME Status
• Attain Blockchain SME Status
• Attain other SME status as required business growth.
• Client Facing and engagement within and out of the center
• Business Development initiatives and follow ups

Provide Technical/Software Development support:

• To manage the centre wiki and blog on a weekly basis
• Accurate visibility of the center on social media
• Provide technical and software development support from time to time.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer related field
• English: Fluent
• Basic background of IBM AIX, Windows and Linux OS.
• Enterprise Java programming skills (J2EE, JVM, EJB, etc).
• Mobile application development
• Enterprise Messaging and Web Services: SOAP, JASON, XML, JVM, JVM Tuning -
• Scripting (JSP, Javascript, HTML, HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JQUERY etc)

Preferred Tech and Prof Experience

• Master's Degree in Computer related field
• English: Fluent
• Basic background of IBM AIX, Windows and Linux OS.
• Enterprise Java programming skills (J2EE, JVM, EJB, etc).
• Mobile application development
• Enterprise Messaging and Web Services: SOAP, JASON, XML, JVM, JVM Tuning -
• Scripting (JSP, Javascript, HTML, HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JQUERY etc)