Services Sales Professional (Public Sector)
Johannesburg, Gauteng 2001
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Your Role and ResponsibilitiesOver 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 its what IBMers do. In Africa, weve been changing the way the continent does business for more than 50 years, and as our company continues to grow, were looking for talented professionals to join us in this new era.
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The role will be responsible for selling TSS services with the primary focus on Public Sector. The focus is for net-new business, in both new and existing accounts, where the deal consists primarily of support for non-IBM products.
The primary function of this role is to identify, validate, qualify and close opportunities, it is also important that the role remains engaged with the local to team.
The Target product sets are IBM Logo and MultiVendor Services including open source
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Required Technical and Professional Expertise- Sales experience selling services into the public sector and commercial accounts
- Have a good understanding of the Public Sector: Public Finance Act etc
- History of closing complex competitive deal
- Fluent verbal and writing communication, and good communication skills.
- Understanding to the services scope and clients need.
- Reliability to fulfill the given tasks promised to clients and colleagues.
- Knowledge of Technical services market.
- Must have a proven ability to self-manage and prioritize work based on opportunity
- Experience in developing & executing growth plan for the territory
- Experience in maintaining a pipeline of opportunities on weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
- Developing and closing opportunities accounts, up sell & cross-sell opportunities in accounts
Preferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseMust have Relationships within the Public Sector
About Business UnitAt 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 a 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 isthe place for you!
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Posted: 2019-11-11 Expires: 2019-12-11