Technical Pre-Sales Consultant


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Recruiter

Recruitment Genius

Listed on

7th June 2019

Location

Sheffield

Salary/Rate

£30000 - £40000

Type

Permanent

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This company are leading suppliers of Cloud-based Private Business Environments, Software Defined Wide Area Networks, Cloud-based Unified Communications solutions, and IT-as-a-Service offering a fixed cost per user Managed Service.

Due to extensive growth, this company is now looking for an experienced Technical Pre-sales Consultant to join the team.

The role:

The Technical Pre Sales Consultant role is to recommend and specify the correct high-quality solutions to all prospective and existing customers to ensure that the account managers, business development team and sales director are proposing the best and most cost effective solutions possible to our client base.

As a senior member of the team, the Technical Pre Sales Consultant must be able to understand customer's businesses and provide the best possible solution design including a full explanation for the specification choice. You must be capable of including alternative options together with fully justified pros and cons for all options.

The Technical Pre Sales Consultant shall identify areas of potential product standardisation and work with the Technical Director to develop a portfolio of standardised products in order to improve quality, efficiency and consistency of service.

You will work very closely with the onboarding team to review projects and create the solution specification where necessary. The ultimate aim to ensure every proposal is accurately specified and costed.

The Technical Pre Sales Consultant must maintain a high level of vendor and product knowledge at both a technical and sales level.

This role involves regular customer contact at a senior level, accurate, regular reporting and an ability to work with a number of different departments. Working proactively on your own initiative and closely with the Technical and Sales Departments.

The successful candidate:

- Ideally, a minimum of 5 years' experience working within the IT Industry and previous experience within an IT & Telecoms MSP

- Excellent general knowledge of business IT solutions including:

- Security solutions

- Server infrastructure

- Cloud based solution design

- Office 365

- Networking

- Backup and DR solutions

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