IBM

Asia Pacific Regional IBM Z Client Skills Leader

Posted On

Oct. 9, 2024

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience Level

Professional

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Nov. 22, 2024

Job Description

Introduction
As the Regional IBM Z Client Skills Leader, you are an innovative thinker who is passionate about technology and loves to stay up-to-date on the latest developments and trends. You will be instrumental in building a large and thriving community around IBM Z and LinuxONE beyond traditional outlets. You will directly interact, consult, and influence leaders at IBM Z clients and surrounding academic communities to drive adoption of the IBM Z Ecosystem Skills programs. You will be an integral member and leader in the local IBM Z ecosystem partnering with internal and external organizations and user groups to coordinate and facilitate collaborative programs and events to drive platform awareness, skills, and advocacy. Working closely with the IBM Z Ecosystem Shared Services team, you will also be responsible for identifying, showcasing, and promoting regional success stories across both the internal and external community. In this role, you will collaborate and work across Sales, Product Management, University Relations, and the broader IBM organizations to identify and leverage synergistic opportunities to build a diverse, vibrant, sustainable, skilled IBM Z community.

The Regional IBM Z Client Skills Leader strives to be a key member of their local technology communities. Along these lines, regional leaders represent IBM at events, workshops, meetups, and conferences. They build relationships with individuals, companies, and organizations that serve the same communities as IBM. They build and nurture great relationships with users online, create useful content, educational material, and other collateral to engage clients and the community.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Develop and Deliver client presentations on Talent Strategies
Work 1:1 with clients to define Talent Strategy leveraging IBM Z Skills Programs and develop and drive an execution plan
Showcase best practices, client success stories, and new mainframe talent through panels, videos, social media and media outlets, events, etc.
Develop and lead proactive skills outreach programs and initiatives in coordination with the IBM account teams
Partner across the local IBM teams to leverage SMEs and recruit advocates to engage in regional skills initiatives and programs
Explore and expand regional skills programs for client participation and to meet the unique needs of the region
Write blog posts, articles, create videos as well as participate in community events to increase community awareness and adoption of talent strategies
Build and maintain proactive and positive relationships with leadership and staff across partner organizations including regional training partner ecosystem, regional academic community, IBM Z client community and lead intentional connections between ecosystem entities
Provide feedback to the IBM product and services teams on behalf of clients
Organize regional client involvement in skill and academic initiatives
Facilitate local partnerships, including university relationships, to build an enterprise talent pipeline in coordination with local employers and worldwide programs including the IBM Z Student Ambassador Program
Partner with Ecosystem Influencer team to foster synergies and collaborative initiatives
Manage incoming ecosystem skills requests
Coordinate regional community events, activities and digital interaction
Liaise with the local external user groups and the local IBM Ecosystem teams
Understand worldwide programs and determine local execution strategy
Set, communicate and execute regional community strategy to meet metric attainment
Ownership of the operational aspects and meeting adoption objectives of the IBM Z Skills programs across the AP region.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

5+ years experience in a client facing role
Experience organizing and running developer or client-facing events
Excellent communication skills with proven experience interacting and influencing client and partner executives
Self-motivated and passionate about helping others and interacting with the wider developer and IBM community
Excellent interpersonal skills and comfortable in crowds and one-on-one
Problem-solving skills and ability to work independently and manage tasks in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and requirements.
Experience working and collaborating across regions
Strong understanding of regional social media services, mechanics, and trends
Ability to work with cross-functional team members
Ability to travel up to 50%
Ability and flexibility to work effectively within a global team

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience as a Technical Advocate or Developer Community Manager
Technical Sales experience
Experience with Academia
Understanding of emerging technologies and use cases
Understanding and ability to work across the broader IBM teams
Agile scrum experience
Experience with IBM Z and LinuxONE

About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

Your Life @ IBM

In 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 IBM

IBM'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 50 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.

Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

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