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Business Development Leader IBM Consulting State of Texas

IBM

Sales & Business Development

Texas City, TX, USA · California, USA

Posted on Aug 16, 2025

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Introduction

The State, Local Government and Education (SLED) industry is part of the Public Market Industry which includes Healthcare and Life Sciences. The Public Market Industry is one of 5 industries for IBM Consulting Americas. The SLED Industry has been in a significant growth trajectory growing from $420M in 2021 to $550M in 2024, with growth plans, to exceed $600M.

To facilitate the growth plans, we have placed Lead Client Partners (LCPs) in key States – The LCP is responsible for leading the efforts in their specific state, creating an account plan, developing and enhancing existing and new client relationships, and leading the team to exceed account targets for Revenue, Signings and Gross Profit, The Business Development Leader (BDL) for a state, would be team with an LCP by developing client relationships, developing a pipeline of opportunities, both in the short term (over the next 3 quarters) and long term (over next 2 years). The BDL role will have a Scorecard Target focused on < $10M signings target and be on an incentive plan (100% Salary with OTE at 150%). This target will align with the Accounts overall target.

Your role and responsibilities

This role will sit within in the SLED Industry Team supporting the SLED Industry. This roles is specific to the State of Texas Business Development Leader.

This role’s primary duties include the building of a sales pipeline of IBM Consulting opportunities across the three growth platforms for IBM Consulting – Business Transformation Services, Hybrid Cloud Services, Client Security Services. This individual would be the primary focal point and owner for business development activities across their assigned state. In partnership with LCP, this individual would be responsible to build and maintain strong client relationships at all levels with the objective of becoming a trusted business advisor to many clients in State Government, City-County Government and Education institutions. This individual will proactively work with clients to understand identify their vision, business and information technology objectives, priorities, budget, critical success factors and applies this knowledge to establish and implement a business development strategy for the territory. They are able to easily understand and translate customer requirements into potential IBM solution opportunities, to enable the generation of prioritized sales opportunity pipeline. Pipeline generation activities should exceed $50M to $100M per year; As part of this role, the individual may need to construct partnerships between clients, team IBM, vendors, and subcontractor organizations and manages the implementation of these partnerships to address business opportunities for IBM Consulting. This individual will have equally balanced skills in key general management areas of client relationship management, consultative selling, portfolio and program management and team and people management.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Ability to position IBM at Executive and mid management perspective with SLED clients

Executive presence including listening, communication and relationship building with executive level customers
Must have knowledge through work experience, in business development and sales, of consulting solutions (non IBM or IBM) and an understanding of IBM Consulting solutions priority focus areas
Ability to build executive level and mid level client relationships
Driven to have a client first focus to create client intimacy and essentialism

Ability to build collaborative relationship inside of IBM

Lead demand generation engine and delivery execution across IBM Consulting Growth Platforms and service lines in conjunction and alignment with their assigned Lead Client Partner

Identify, Qualify and Develop Opportunities across IBM Consulting solution areas

Brings delivery knowledge, sales and business development and industry experience such as

Multi-government agency focus and experience
Has sales and delivery experience in state, city and county projects

The ideal candidate has:

· Work experience in sales and business development, in consulting, in their assigned state or solution area

· Existing executive presence and client relationship (C Suite, CIO and Line of Business) building skills; Can be the “Face” of IBM Consulting with the lead client partners / associate partners in their assigned state.

· Very Strong Sales and Business Development Acumen

· Proven track record in sales and business development

· Ability to be understand multiple types of solutions including Health and Human Services, Transportation, Tax, Revenue, K-12, Higher Education etc..

· Ability to drive a partnering strategy with key ecosystem partners like MS, AWS, Oracle, Workday, IBM Technology and others

· Preferred experience in working with, selling to or delivering to State, Local Government clients

· Would live in their assigned state

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM 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

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.

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.

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