Brand Technical Sales Specialist - Automation(Shandong)

IBM

IBM

IT, Sales & Business Development

Dalian, Liaoning, China

Posted on May 6, 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 a Brand Technical Sales Specialist for IBM's Automation Platform, you will collaborate with IBM business partners to sell Automation Platform solutions into your territory of client accounts. Your focus will be on delivering solutions that meet client needs and driving business growth through effective partnership management. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Collaborate with Business Partners: Work closely with IBM business partners to identify sales opportunities and develop strategies to sell Automation Platform solutions to clients in your territory. • Deliver Solution Sales: Engage with clients to understand their needs and deliver tailored Automation Platform solutions that drive business value and growth. • Manage Territory Sales: Develop and execute sales plans to achieve territory sales targets, leveraging IBM's Automation Platform products and services. • Build Partner Relationships: Foster strong relationships with business partners, providing support and guidance to help them succeed in selling Automation Platform solutions. • Identify New Opportunities: Continuously identify new sales opportunities and work with business partners to pursue them, driving revenue growth and expanding IBM's presence in the territory.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Automation Platform Knowledge: Experience with IBM's Automation Platform products, including Cloud Pak for Applications, DevOps, and Enterprise Application Service for Java, is essential for this role. • Sales and Partnership Experience: Exposure to sales and partnership management, with a focus on delivering solutions that meet client needs and driving business growth through effective partnership management. • Territory Management Skills: Experience with managing territory sales, developing and executing sales plans to achieve territory sales targets, and leveraging IBM's Automation Platform products and services. • Client Engagement: Experience with engaging clients to understand their needs and delivering tailored Automation Platform solutions that drive business value and growth. • Product Knowledge: Familiarity with a range of IBM Automation Platform products, including but not limited to, WebSphere Application Server, API Connect, and MQ.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Additional IBM Product Knowledge: Exposure to other IBM Automation Platform products, such as Spectrum High Performance Computing, Aspera, and Cloud Native Gateway, can be beneficial in this role. • Industry Insights: Familiarity with industry trends and developments related to automation, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence can help in identifying new sales opportunities and delivering tailored solutions to clients. • Technical Sales Skills: Experience with technical sales, including solution design and proof-of-concept development, can be an asset in engaging with clients and delivering Automation Platform solutions.

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.

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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 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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