Project Management Tech Sales Enablement - Project Management Professional Chicago, US

Avature; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Project Manager in Technical Sales, where your efforts will shape the future of talent development. This role involves leading training initiatives, managing logistics, and collaborating with senior leaders to enhance project delivery. You'll play a crucial part in developing early-career talent while ensuring effective communication and relationship building within a dynamic environment. Embrace the opportunity to drive innovation and make a meaningful impact in a globally recognized organization that values growth and collaboration.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

401(k)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Generous paid time off

Training and educational resources

Diverse employee resource groups

Discounts on retail products

Qualifications

• Ability to work well with different teams and build strong relationships.
• Exposure to managing programs with excellent organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate project teams for successful delivery.
• Assist in designing and delivering training sessions.

Skills

Collaboration and Relationship Building

Program and Project Management

Technical and Communication Skills

Passion for Talent Development

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Project Management Systems

Communications Tools

Job description

A career in IBM means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team of deep product experts, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and dedication to client outcomes. You will drive critical talent development initiatives across multiple programs, collaborating with senior leaders, managers, and subject matter experts in a highly matrixed environment. Your work will directly impact the growth and acceleration of our technical sales teams and how we engage with our clients.

IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

At IBM, our Project Managers play a pivotal role in leading and coordinating project teams to ensure the successful delivery of projects. As a Project Manager for our Technical Sales organization, you’ll be at the forefront of driving program design, project direction, defining metrics, and managing performance to meet project expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Enablement Workshops: Assist in designing, coordinating, and delivering training sessions. Help manage logistics, communications, registrations, budgeting, and team-building activities.

Co-Op Program: Facilitate coordination among leaders, managers, and Talent Acquisition. Aid recruiting, onboarding, training coordination, project assignments, and graduate role alignment.

Internship Program: Participate in interviewing and onboarding candidates. Coordinate mentorships, track performance, support intern development toward full-time roles, and help tailor learning plans to business needs.

Internal Communications Management: Help administer program communications including emails and intranet updates. Maintain content repositories for accurate information sharing.

Additional Initiatives: Contribute to cross-functional projects supporting Americas Technical Sales initiatives.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Collaboration and Relationship Building: Ability to work well with different teams and build strong relationships with senior leaders.

Program and Project Management: Exposure to managing programs, demonstrating excellent organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks at once.

Technical and Communication Skills: Familiarity with project management systems, communications tools, and maintaining a content repository.

Passion for Talent Development: A genuine interest in supporting early-career talent, particularly in technical sales training.

Education: A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience is preferred.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Background in Enablement, Program Management, or Corporate Learning and Development
Candidates should have experience in roles that support training and development initiatives within an organization.

Familiarity with Enterprise Systems and Processes
Understanding of large-scale systems and workflows commonly used in corporate environments is essential.

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 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.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

Job Title

Tech Sales Enablement - Project Management

Date posted

07-May-2025

Job ID

32120

City / Township / Village

Chicago

State / Province

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Project Management

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

75,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

131,000.00

Position type

Professional

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?