Technical Pre-Sales Consultant


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Recruiter

Nigel Frank International

Listed on

29th January 2018

Location

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Salary/Rate

£37000 - £47000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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One of the most well-known brands in IT who has been growing year on year and promotes an open door and friendly work environment is looking to expand their team by adding a Technical Pre Sales Consultant.

As a Pre Sales consultant you will be accountable for the ownership and creation of solutions that match the needs of the client while ensuring security, efficiency and compliance. Working closely with an SME you'll be required to perform a broad range of activities to support the sales process. By using your technical and commercial knowhow, you will help overcome technical challenges that will in turn help secure future business, and be the go-to person for both colleagues, customers and partners around the technical capabilities and requirements of our products and services.

TRAVEL

This is an office based role which may occasional require client visits around the UK.

KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

* To take on principal responsibility for pre-sales consulting

* Technical authoring specific to the opportunity

* Accountable for the accuracy of technical and labour budgets

* Co-ordinate cross team resource to provide accurate work estimates and to develop and communicate customer proposals with the appropriate level of sales message

* Work closely with other team members, providing guidance and assisting in providing, facilitating and being in charge of quality within the technical deliverable

* Keep abreast of changes and opportunities in the technology market

* Work effectively with the Infrastructure Team Leader to agree technical designs and approaches

* Work closely with vendors in order to form partnerships aligned to our core deliverables, and where necessary bring in 3rd party associates to facilitate the solution

* Time management and self-organisation skills

* Working away from home may be required

* You must possess a full UK driving license and have suitable transport with business insurance

ESSENTIAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

* Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills

* A deep level of IT knowledge and an ability to express this knowledge in terms appropriate to the audience which includes client senior executives, managers and end-users

* Experience in formulating and articulating business requirements and in translating these into system requirements

* Ability to build strong relationships vendors with clients

* Ability to think clearly, and to write clear documentation which is sufficiently detailed, unambiguous and complete

* Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

* Strong presentation skills

* A good understanding of Microsoft based products and solutions

* Knowledge of virtualisation technologies and hypervisor architecture

* Experience of LAN, WAN, and WLAN

* Understanding of high availability and business continuity (RTO/RPO)

PERSON PROFILE

* Good interpersonal skills, possessing strong emotional intelligence, able to communicate across multiple levels

* Driven and self-motivated

* Commercially aware

* Be able to demonstrate commitment and understanding

* Logical thinker with an aptitude for problem solving

* Ability to work under pressure

* Team player, enthusiastic & flexible

* Must have a full UK driving license

DESIRABLE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

* Previous experience in sales or pre-sales for software-based solutions and/or technical solutions

* Previous experience with finance and/or accounting systems

* Understanding of virtualisation technologies

* Understanding of backup & disaster recovery processes

* Understanding of Cloud technologies and delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)

If you would like any more information please don't hesitate to get in touch via [email protected] or call 0191 261 3379

( Technical Pre-sales / Infrastructure / Windows Server / Windows OS / VMware / Hyper-V / LAN/WAN / Office 365 / Azure / AWS)

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