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Solution Architect
Welcome to the workplace of the future!
Are you ready to be part of a team that can connect, share and collaborate from any location with anyone, anywhere?
Our global team is made up of smart, highly-capable, inquisitive people who bring their best selves to work each day.
Join our world-class team and help us discover and advance the next frontier of communication and collaboration technology, which also supports our robust flexible working practices for our employees.
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Job purpose
To provide pre-sales technical leadership in the area of collaboration infrastructure, alliance partners and our ‘eco' system. E.g. Zoom.
Scope
This role will provide specialist knowledge and support of products and solutions at an EMEA level. Frequent multi-country support of sales activities with travel will be required. The SA will plan their own ongoing development particularly in their area of specialization to keep their knowledge current.
Note: Knowledge of the Microsoft SfB and Teams environments will be required due to overlap/application of our products and solutions into the Microsoft environment.
Main duties
Provide technical leadership in ‘direct touch' sales situations working with SE's and Account managers including presentations, design support and PoC (Proof of Concept).
Provide ‘thought' leadership & vision relating to their expertise e.g. develop sample architectures for Polycom solution implementations, SE development and other initiatives
Stay current in their area of expertise
Provide support to Polycom partners for their qualified major or complex sales opportunities
Implement programs to develop partners; ongoing updates (new products & releases), formal training & education e.g. certification
Undertake product or infrastructure initiatives to further the interests of the company and the Sales Engineering community (internal & external).
May be required to provide occasional event support for seminars and trade shows.
Develop close links with relevant Product Managers and development staff within the Business Unit(s)
Provide feedback from customers/field
Be an expert source of relevant ‘roadmap' information
Liaise with other departments e.g. Service, marketing, to maximize Poly's effectiveness with it's opportunities. Close work with the Demonstration is required to ensure Poly's demos show our solutions at their best and most current.
Education & qualifications required
Certification in relevant area of expertise e.g. Cisco CCXX or Microsoft MSXX ideally
Sales training - structured approach to account and opportunity management e.g. Miller-Heimann, Siebel
Competency Profile
Extensive experience in a mixture of networking and collaboration applications.
Experience of selling to enterprise customers at a high level - CXX and Director/VP
Expertise -Network knowledge (routing etc), Quality of Service protocols particularly for real time applications. DNS & other utilities, Gateways
Expertise - Collaboration & utilities plus call control applications; directory services (e.g. active directory, LDAP), collaboration management , gatekeepers/registrars, VoIP knowledge beneficial
Expertise - Microsoft background with network applications SfB, Teams and Lync
Experienced in the "consultative" approach to selling - "trusted advisor".
Excellent communication skills - can confidently communicate at senior levels of a customer's organisation
Language skills - English plus major European language depending on location/mother tongue.
Structured project management skills
Commercial awareness of sales processes and common business practices.
Excellent customer focus and adaptability.
Typical activities - The SA will provide ‘expert' support to the ‘local' or account sales team in the form of knowledge transfer, direct support at customer meetings, demonstrations and design/architecture development. The SA will provide internal education (mainly to SE's) informally or opportunity specific as well as more formal sessions. The SA will also provide support to Plantronics (Polycom) partners both for major or complex application sales opportunities and ongoing partner development (training and knowledge support).
The application process is subject to a background check regarding employment, education, criminal background, and may include a reference check.