Senior Solutions Consultant
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Location
United Kingdom
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Sector:
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Job type:
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Salary:
upto £85k
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Contact:
Trevor Jackson
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Job ref:
133
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Published:
almost 2 years ago
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Expiry date:
2020-03-14
About us
Founded in 2002 and swiftly established a reputation for pioneering innovation in the technology market. From launching the world’s first Virtual private LAN in 2006 on our privately-owned 100GigE secure and super-fast Network to our recent work integrating SD-WAN and SD-DC, our commitment to innovation has resulted in us being recognised as a world-class IT Service provider, one of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK and have 8 ISO accreditations to our name.
Overall purpose of the job:
We are looking for a Senior Solutions Consultant who can think outside of the box and work on complex projects that encompass network, voice and cloud solutions. The candidate would be expected to have a vast knowledge and experience across all market verticals and provide:
Non-negotiable: Senior Solutions Consultant
- Experience in pre-sales - client-facing, supporting the sales account managers.
- Hands-on technical experience/understanding of the products that we
- offer.
- Experience in a role with a similar scope of responsibilities; candidates must have pre-sales and technical consultancy.
Key responsibilities for this job: Senior Solutions Consultant
- To engage with Sales Account Managers from the early stage of the opportunity cycle
- Technically qualify new opportunities in conjunction with the commercial qualification
- To attend customer meetings with Sales Account Managers
- To participate in customer conference calls when required
- The ability to design and develop innovative and competitive solutions, working individually or leading a wider virtual team for the qualified opportunity
- Support the Sales Account Manager with the commercials of the opportunity
- Work very closely with our Bid Team and Account Managers to respond to tenders (RFI/RFP)
- To act as a central point of contact and provide technical support within existing accounts
- Create a close working relationship with the engineering department in order to validate proposed designs and solutions
- Any other fair and reasonable task or duty assigned to you by your Manager, or other senior staff member
Knowledge and experience required: Senior Solutions Consultant
- Significant IT / Telecoms experience
- Significant experience in a pre-sales environment with the ability to talk confidently about technical solutions
- Excellent presentation skills – the ability to articulate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Demonstrable experience responding to bids and tenders
- Good commercial acumen
- Proven technical design skills and the ability to create design documentation
- Knowledge of VPLS, MPLS, IP Networking, Routing Protocols, BGP, VRRP, IGRP
- Knowledge of SDN and SD-WAN technology and solutions
- Experience in designing secure Internet solutions (UTM firewalls. SIEM)
- Experience of IPTelephony, SIP, Hosted Voice (especially Broadsoft), Unified Comms
- Knowledge of LAN (wired and wireless) environments desirable
- Familiarity with Private & Public Cloud architecture would be advantageous
- Previous hands on technical experience is desirable
Benefits:
- Pension
- Medical insurance after probation period
- Eyecare voucher
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Mileage/travel expenses as appropriate
- Childcare Vouchers
- 25+8 days holiday