Introduction As an SDR within the IBM Apptio your primary goal will be to support the Account Executive team to qualify leads and convert them into new business opportunities. With a focus on speed to engage, you will leverage your digital, product and consultative selling skills to accept incoming leads, and connect the dots between clients’ needs and IBM’s solutions. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the Sales team– advising and supporting on new business engagements throughout the critically important early phases of the sales cycle, and helping to lead prospects to our award winning solutions. Your Role and Responsibilities Your primary responsibilities will include: Continuous Personal Development: Stay updated and engage in continuous personal development to become a trusted expert advisor. Lead Conversion: Review and convert inbound Marketing Qualified Leads to Sales Qualified Leads Outbound Prospecting: Align with your Account Executives to agree strategies to engage with cold leads and contacts at target accounts Support IBM Apptio Sellers: Pass qualified leads to IBM Apptio sellers and support them throughout the process of closing deals. Social Selling and Thought Leadership: Utilize social media for social selling and thought leadership, promoting both IBM and Apptio, as well as your personal brand while engaging with prospective clients. Required Technical and Professional Expertise Native or fluent German language to a business level required Lead Generation and Sales Development: Experience in leading generation and sales development in the tech industry or a similar complex field. Target Achievement: Consistently meeting targets in fast-paced environments by fostering collaboration. Digital Communication: Proficient in verbal and written communication across digital platforms. Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise Cloud financial management and enterprise agile planning software planning About Business Unit IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. 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. 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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 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 For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application. 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