The purpose of the Business Development Leader - Palo Alto Networks (PANW) at IBM is to drive net new pipeline development and sales progression of IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services (CSS) client opportunities that incorporate PANW’s technology in the broader solution offered by IBM Consulting (IBMC). These opportunities may be part of an even more comprehensive opportunity that an IBMC Lead Client Partner (LCP) is pursuing with or delivering to the client.

The focus of this role will be to develop new and high value IBMC opportunities for the PANW specific CSS portfolio, which currently includes:

· Threat Management, Cyber Trust, X-Force, and Strategy

· Consulting and Systems Integration (C&SI) services and Managed Security Services (MSS)

The CSS PANW portfolio will include all PANW cybersecurity products, including and not limited to:

· Prisma Cloud

· Prisma Access (SASE)

· Cortex (XSIAM, XDR, Xpanse, XSOAR)

· Strata NexGen Firewalls

The Business Development Leader role is not a technical role, but a sales role and the individuals in this role will be expected to be/become a PANW subject matter expert (SME), as it pertains how to work with and do business with PANW. To this end, this role requires the ability to articulate, educate, support and be deemed a valued team member for LCPs and CSS consultants in their assigned Geo, Market and/or Industry.

The Business Development Leader role is client facing. The Business Development Leader is expected to work with the LCP and CSS Associate Partner (AP) to understand “lay of the land” of the client, including, but not limited to current sales motions, client/industry needs/issues and priorities that are planned, budgeted or currently out of scope and may require CSS advisory services. In conjunction with the LCP and CSS AP, the Business Development Leader is also expected to seek and engage the appropriate Palo Alto individual or teams to solidify teaming and to drive the development of a comprehensive and credible joint sales plan. The Business Development Leaders are to actively participate in key client facing discussions, as well as associated internal and PANW teaming discussions with the sole purpose of aiding the joint teams to qualify, progress and close joint opportunities.

Geo, Market, or Industry specific Business Development Leader responsibilities include:

1. Sales Activation:

a. Evangelize the value of the PANW strategic partnership and sharing best ways of working together within and across all of IBMC, including within CSS

b. Build collaborative relationships across IBMC (LCPs and CSS) to expedite teaming, opportunity identification, and deal progression

c. Build collaborative relationships across PANW sales to expedite teaming, opportunity identification, deal progression, as well as possible removal of obstacles to close

2. Sales Enablement:

a. Work with across both parties to promote and educate sellers

i. CSS on PANW products and value propositions

ii. PANW sellers on the value of working with IBMC and its GTM strategies, capabilities, and value propositions

b. Manage, market, and promote CSS offerings and PANW as part of a broader IBMC client engagement

i. Articulate CSS offerings and PANW products strengths, potential weaknesses, and roadmap

ii. Assist in RFI and RFP responses

iii. Assist PANW in understanding client c-suite (above the CISO) requirements and how that translates to project scoping and pricing needs from PANW

iv. Maintain relationships with the Palo Alto product teams

c. Participate in joint events like RSA, IBM Think, Black Hat, PANW Ignite and others

d. Gather, develop (with marketing assistance) and promote win stories to drive greater sales velocity

3. Sales Engagement:

a. Target and track joint pursuits from identification through close, including loss reporting

b. Establish and maintain relationships with PANW product sales specialists to allow for internal PANW advocacy of client needs as it pertains to new opportunities and rapid issue resolution

c. Leading joint account workshops which includes:

i. Work with PANW and internal IBMC teams to identify opportunities to team – who, what, where, why and how

ii. Share best practices and identify risks, if applicable

iii. Outline a joint sales plan with actions, owners and timeline, assigned to individuals

iv. Establish ongoing cadence for joint read-outs to maintain alignment and communicate revisions to plan

v. Engage executives, as needed

vi. Monitor progress for leadership reporting, monthly and quarterly

d. Refresh as needed, PANW knowledge and/or certifications to maintain SME knowledge of market impact and/or industry trends that drive the need and value of CSS offerings and PANW products

Sample governance activities include:

1. Preparing collateral for Geo / Market specific cadence sessions, monthly reviews, and quarterly business reviews

1. Providing color commentary, e.g. win stories, best practices, lessons learned, issues to be resolved, etc.,to pipeline, forecasts, and other internal and/or joint performance reports
2. Monitoring and reporting against individual metrics, showing current assumptions, progress to date and actions needed or anticipated to ensure achievement

The successful candidate will meet the following requirements:

1. Knowledge of the relevant CSS offerings portfolio in terms of the value to the client, to IBMC and to PANW

2. Ability to present the value of the strategic partnership and the CSS offerings to clients, PANW field sellers, and LCPs

3. Knowledge of the PANW product portfolio in terms of their value propositions to the client, to IBMC and PANW

4. Maintain an understanding of competitive products and technologies and accurately position PANW products in competitive scenarios.

5. Complete required online PANW sales training

• Collaborate with tech squads, business stakeholders to define and communicate product vision, goals and roadmap
• Translate the product roadmap into user stories and acceptance criteria for the delivery team
• Manage testing execution and timeline, ensure satisfactory delivery of product backlogs
  Become an effective “bridge” between users and technology.
• Good knowledge of backend systems, database and APIs

Prerequisite

• The ideal candidate should have 2 to 4 years of relevant experience in a similar capacity
• Prior banking project experience is highly preferred
• Good team player with strong interpersonal skills. Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skill
• Ability to write well and experienced at writing various business document (business case and requirements, specifications)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• To lead Data and AI solution development, client presentation and provide delivery oversight on large scale data analytics and AI engagements
• Lead the solution development and pre-sales process, including visioning, development of PoCs and manage delivery.
• Work closely with the practiced leaders in recruiting and developing capabilities required. • Work closely with IBM teams to respond to and manage RFI/ RFP.
• Responsible for running client workshops, pitches and presentations.
• Working closely with clients to identify, understand, define their requirements and solve business problems.
• Identify opportunities for innovation in solution and delivery, bringing to bear new technologies and methodology best practices.

Job Requirements:

• Relevant work experience in solutioning and delivering Data and AI engagements.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in building data and advanced analytics solutions
• Proficient with major data analytics software (ETL, Dashboard, Data modelling) and methodologies (i.e. Agile)
• Familiar with data management and data governance, data engineering, architecture design, systems integration and security
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage business stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams and communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise and actionable manner
• Determined and results-driven personality, with a high level of enthusiasm, energy and confidence
• Keen learner who is able to adapt to evolving situations and a dynamic business landscape.
• Prior work experience in Singapore public sector with required security clearance preferable.

Project Manager

Role and Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for successful delivery of client’s Complex System Integration and Migration / Modernization client commitments. Individuals within this specialty and skill set manage client engagements, ensuring delivery of solutions for complex IT, business and client requirements, preferably with cloud experience.

This specialty is responsible for leading a project team in delivering a solution to the client with overall performance responsibility for managing scope, cost, schedule, and contractual deliverables, which includes applying techniques for planning, tracking, change control, and risk management. They are responsible for managing all project resources, including Global Delivery resources, vendors and subcontractors, and for establishing an effective communication plan with the project team and the client. They provide day to day direction to the project team and regular project status to the client.

Minimum requirements for successful candidates would include:
Demonstrate passion for the business, strong stakeholder management, able to think out-of-the-box, strong empathy, drive to achieve, team leadership, teamwork, decisiveness, building organizational capabilities, developing talent, promote team diversity and strong communications skills

Project / Business Leadership: Successfully managed large multidisciplinary teams: $5M to $10M in size, 20,000 hours (3,000 hours), 50+ people. Must be a recognized positive influence among teammates and have a proven ability to lead others. The successful candidate will have demonstrated +8 years’ experience managing Complex System Integration implementations involving working with distributed Agile delivery teams over multiple geographies

Required skills:

• Possess strong communications and analytical skills
• Manage client expectations and aligning to strategic goals, especially in challenging environments
• Demonstrate strong project management skills to ensure that project objectives and goals are met within contractual obligation
• Support the financial performance of assigned business areas.
• Provide timely reports and communicate on project status
• Enforce compliance of project management methodology and deliverables
• Facilitate discussions, conduct meetings and drive issues to closure
• Drive innovation, team cohesiveness within the teams
• Able to quickly comprehend requirements and transform them into project tasks/deliverables
• Able to multi-task and support multiple priorities / multiple deliverables simultaneously
• Drive compliance for both the delivery organisation and the client organisation
• Oversee month-end closing activities, reconciliations and audit findings for assigned areas of responsibility
• Communicate project plans and routine updates on project status and issues/risks to the project team, stakeholders and management utilizing project planning tools such as MS Project and other project tracking utilities.
• Establish effective professional working relationships
• Provide supervision and development opportunities for associates
• Manage vendor relationships - manage supplier/partner contracts, manage day-to-day relationships
• Create a variety of good documentations and communications
• Exercise independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Require flexibility on non-standard working hours depending on projects/demands
• Proven track record of managed delivery with consistent timeliness and good quality outcomes

Preferred skills:

• Experience in work delegation and coordinating diverse cross functional teams and Global Delivery Teams in multiple geographics

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• At least 6 years experience as a Complex Systems Integration Project Management Professional
• At least 5 years experience in managing custom application development projects
• At least 5 years experience in managing multi-vendor and complex systems integration projects, working in a distributed team environment, managing offshore teams with demonstrable outcome
• At least 3 years experience in AGILE PM Methods
• At least 2 years experience in experience in managing complex Program Management Financials and Contracting

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• At least 1 year experience with Cloud Migration Services
• At least 1 year experience with Application Modernization
• At least 1 year experience with Hybrid Cloud Service Management
• At least 1 year experience managing integrated test and QA projects

Job Responsibilities:
Portfolio Management & Analytics Division

Sitting within Reserve Management department, the front office Application Developer cum business analyst / product owner is responsible for managing the applications and processes used for portfolio management and trading of assets managed in-house.

• Work closely with portfolio management and trading functions to understand their business requirements, translating business-to-technical requirements and vice versa
• Design, build/enhance, test, implement and document processes/tools/systems in partnership with IT, middle and back offices as well as software vendors to support front office workflow
• Plan and work with department and Client partners on implementing road map of front-office workflow feature development / upgrades
• Ensure front office processes and procedures meet internal standards for data integrity, security and auditability
• Monitor, analyse and troubleshoot front office processes to ensure their smooth functioning.
• Manage project implementations with vendors, covering procurement and related administrative issues;
• Oversee change management to facilitate the users to product adoption and new ways of working.

What we are looking for

• An undergraduate degree in business-related or IT-related fields
• Preferably 3-10 years relevant working experience, including product management/ownership or system used in similar functions, preferably in investment or financial domain
• Strong sense of ownership and growth mindset
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking with good problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of user-centric principles and/or service design
• Adept communicator (both written and verbal) with the ability to effectively convey complex information to stakeholders across all levels
• Experience working in cross-functional groups, representing views of different stakeholders and influencing teams towards achieving shared goal

Senior Business Analyst

Job Responsibilities:

• Fixed income, FX Trading instruments
• preferably investment banking background
• Sitting within Reserve Management department, the front office business analyst / product owner is responsible for managing the applications and processes used for portfolio management and trading of assets managed in-house.
• Work closely with portfolio management and trading functions to understand their business requirements, translating business-to-technical requirements and vice versa
• Design, build/enhance, test, implement and document processes/tools/systems in partnership with IT, middle and back offices as well as software vendors to support front office workflow
• Plan and work with department wise partners on implementing road map of front-office workflow feature development / upgrades
• Ensure front office processes and procedures meet internal standards for data integrity, security and auditability
• Monitor, analyse and troubleshoot front office processes to ensure their smooth functioning.
• Manage project implementations with vendors, covering procurement and related administrative issues;
• Oversee change management to facilitate the users to product adoption and new ways of working.

What we are looking for:

An undergraduate degree in business-related or IT-related fields

• Preferably 3-10 years relevant working experience, including product management/ownership or system used in similar functions, preferably in investment or financial domain
• Strong sense of ownership and growth mindset
• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking with good problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of user-centric principles and/or service design
• Adept communicator (both written and verbal) with the ability to effectively convey complex information to stakeholders across all levels
• Experience working in cross-functional groups, representing views of different stakeholders and influencing teams towards achieving shared goal

Strategic sales is an initiative that brings the best of IBM and our ecosystem partners to our key clients to help them transform and deliver tangible business outcomes. These are long term and strategic engagements that require selling to the C-suite and the Board. Business Development Executives (BDEs) are responsible for the ongoing identification, development and qualification of large transformational outsourcing opportunities within assigned markets and industries. These opportunities need to be identified in the context of evolving situations constrained by costs pressures, competitions, digital native new entrants as well as change in customer behavior. Opportunities may be complex in nature as they may combine business processes, IT components and organizational transformations into a single, coherent solution and to succeed in the market, innovative state of the art solutions must be developed requiring multi-industry and multi-market knowledge and experience; out-of-the-box thinking.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for large deal origination and qualification
• Work with GBS leadership and IBM Industry leaders to initiate and conduct transformational conversations with C-suite, industry-shaping decision makers in our top accounts and select whitespace accounts with the aim of originating new transformational deals and build the GBS/IBM pipeline
• Prepare proactive (often unsolicited) and compelling CXO/Board level point of views and value propositions, including articulation of how these solutions drive value for our customers, leveraging our focus offerings and solutions
• Prepare compelling business cases to support the deal value proposition.
• Manage deal progression from origination to qualification. Work with GBS Sales teams to orchestrate the deal teams from across GBS and wider IBM organization and bring the best of the company together to maximize value to the customer.
• Qualify deals using a structured approach and IBM approved tools
• Prepare the deal stakeholder management plan and lead/coordinate stakeholder engagement actions with the account team
• Transition deal management to Deal Maker/CSE at deal qualification stage. Support the deal team during the post qualification phase and help negotiate and close the deal
• Contribute towards building a network of C-suite relationships which can be a basis for future commercial opportunities
• Conduct proactive industry and market research to develop large deal origination playbooks and other accelerators

Skills, Leadership Competencies & Experience

• Top-notch seller with strong consulting sales experience in a prestigious consulting/IT services.
• Proven ability to originate and close large and transformative deals (US$ 25M+)
• Proven ability to build and nurture client relationships at various levels, especially at the C-suite and Board level
• Seasoned executive with the gravitas to effectively engage senior client stakeholders.
• Strong influencing and leadership skills reflected by the ability to work effectively across a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Expert level understanding of a set of industry with strong business acumen.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing large scale technology-enabled business transformation program roadmaps with supporting business cases
• Expert level understanding of exponential technologies (such as Hybrid Cloud and AI) and associated practices, technology trends and their impacts to business and users
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills, including capability to develop and deliver high quality presentations
• Operates as a true strategic business partner driving innovation and pioneering new business opportunities
• Demonstrates resilience, perseverance, learning mindset, tolerance to ambiguity and a drive to win despite challenges
• Experience in large deal sales in Asia Pacific with proven ability to successfully work across different countries and cultures
• Prior industry/strategy consulting experience will be an advantage