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Ecosystem Sales Manager - ASEAN ( Integration Portfolio)

IBM

Sales & Business Development

central area, singapore

Posted on Mar 24, 2026

Introduction

At IBM Global Sales, we bring together innovation, collaboration, and expertise to help clients solve their most complex business challenges. Working across industries and geographies, you’ll partner with colleagues, clients, and partners to co-create solutions that drive digital transformation and lasting impact.Success in Global Sales is built on curiosity, empathy, and collaboration. You’ll connect technical understanding with strong people skills, building trusted relationships and shaping solutions that improve business and society. With world-class onboarding, continuous learning, and a supportive culture, IBM offers the tools and opportunities to grow your career. Join us and be part of a global team that’s passionate about driving innovation and making a difference.

Your role and responsibilities

As an IBM Ecosystem Sales Manager, you will lead business growth through identifying, progressing, and closing opportunities with Business Partners for IBM Integration portfolio offerings.

1. Partner Identification, Qualification, and Alignment

Identify, qualify, and onboard prospective partners with strong market alignment and technical competency in integration and API management.
Align each partner to a focus industry and country to ensure targeted market coverage and accountability.
Establish joint value propositions and define clear success metrics for each partner engagement.

2. GTM Enablement and Strategic Positioning

Position IBM Integration use cases, pricing methodology, and competitive differentiation to drive partner mindshare and readiness.
Develop and execute a joint Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy with each partner, incorporating tailored sales plays, competitive battle cards, and solution narratives aligned to industry priorities.
Ensure partners are equipped with the latest sales assets, demos, and enablement collateral to drive independent pipeline generation.

3. Partner Cadence, Pipeline Governance, and Execution

Establish a structured cadence with identified partners to monitor demand generation activities, pipeline progression, and deal closures.
Collaborate closely with respective IBM Account Executives to ensure seamless coordination between partner-led and IBM-led opportunities.
Track and report progress through regular performance reviews, ensuring visibility into partner performance, joint marketing efforts, and forecast accuracy

Required education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Ecosystem Sales Leadership: Experience with leading sales teams to drive business growth through identifying, progressing, and closing opportunities with Business Partners, ensuring alignment with overall strategy and goals.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experience in collaborating with technology leaders and sales managers to ensure seamless execution of ecosystem strategy and advocating for new ways of working.

• Performance Management: Experience with managing overall ecosystem performance, resource deployment, and execution of partner strategy to deliver growth in a specific market or team.

• Strategic Alignment: Experience in aligning ecosystem execution with broader business strategy, promoting growth and driving business results.

• Resource Optimization: Experience with optimizing resource deployment to achieve ecosystem goals and objectives, driving efficiency and productivity.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Ecosystem Strategy Development: Experience with designing and implementing effective ecosystem strategies to drive business growth and expansion. This includes analyzing market trends, identifying opportunities, and developing plans to capitalize on them.

• Technology Leadership Collaboration: Experience in working closely with technology leaders to align ecosystem execution with broader business strategy, promoting growth and driving business results. This involves advocating for new ways of working and ensuring seamless execution of ecosystem strategy.

• Performance Metrics Analysis: Experience with analyzing performance metrics to optimize resource deployment and achieve ecosystem goals and objectives, driving efficiency and productivity.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM has a global presence, operating in more than 175 countries with a broad-based geographic distribution of revenue. The company’s Global Markets organization is a strategic sales business unit that manages IBM’s global footprint, working closely with dedicated country-based operating units to serve clients locally. These country teams have client relationship managers who lead integrated teams of consultants, solution specialists and delivery professionals to enable clients’ growth and innovation. By complementing local expertise with global experience and digital capabilities, IBM builds deep and broad-based client relationships. This local management focus fosters speed in supporting clients, addressing new markets and making investments in emerging opportunities. Additionally, the Global Markets organization serves clients with expertise in their industry as well as through the products and services that IBM and partners supply. IBM is also expanding its reach to new and existing clients through digital marketplaces.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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