IBM Hiring for Cloud Onboarding Specialist at Bangalore, India Full Time

Introduction

Apptio, an IBM company, is the leading technology spend and value management software provider. Its AI-powered data insights empower leaders to make smarter financial and operational decisions. A pioneer and category leader in Technology Business Management (TBM) and FinOps, Apptio works with thousands of customers, partners, and community members worldwide. By joining this team, you will play a critical role in enabling the customers to get maximum value from the cloud investment.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Own a set of accounts and drive product adoption, renewal, and expansion; be a strategic advisor and establish and build strong customer relationships.

• Deliver value associated with customer investment in Apptio’s Cloudability Products.

• Understand customer use cases with respect to FinOps and ensure that those requests are implemented by working closely with product managers, engineering, and support teams.

• Ensure Customer realizes maximum value by providing required support, product training, and business reviews, which leads to retention.

• Conduct regular cadence with the Customer and update them regarding the new features/releases of Apptio Products and help them understand what value they bring to the table.

• If you have the passion and energy to work in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment, you are the person we are looking for!

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Overall, 5 – 7 years of industry experience.

• Good knowledge of Cloud (AWS Practioner Level).

• Team player with solid communication and presentation skills.

• Assist in gathering functional and business requirements from the client and translating them into a functional hosted solution design that met customer needs, provided maximum solution value, and was within the scope of Apptio products/services.

• Configure, test, and document Apptio dashboards and underlying data models to meet functional specifications.

• Work closely with other analysts and consultants in the organization to leverage skill sets and meet deliverable deadlines.

• Provide customers with end-user training as needed.

• Collaborate with other departments to ensure customer satisfaction and resolve issues promptly.

• Work with the product management and development organization to channel client feedback into future releases of the Apptio product suite.

• Work with content management to consolidate customer commonalities into best practices and product templates.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Self starter able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance.

• Ability to breakdown complex information into simple solution requirements.

• Strong to expert skills in data analysis.

• Knowledge of enterprise IT organizational, business, and technical environments.

• Strong English written/ oral skills.

• General understanding of basic financial concepts such as general ledger, budget, forecast and cost.

• General understanding of IT infrastructure concepts such as server, storage, virtualization and software applications.

• Experience with Apptio tool and certification.

• Skilled at working with large data sets, quickly detecting and resolving data-related issues.

About Business UnitIBM 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.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.

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