Job Title: IT  Pre-Sales Specialist 

Status: Permanent

Hours: 9:00am - 17:00pm/ Monday to Friday. *office based 5 days a week

Salary: £48,000 per annum + travel expense up to Zone 6

Location: London

Global IT company is looking for IT pre-sales specialist.

IT  Pre-Sales Specialist  - Responsibilities:

Requirements Definition and Design:

• Define customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Create high-level and detailed designs, proposals, and solution architectures.
• Provide technical consultancy and support to the company's customers during the pre-sales and post-sales phases.

Project Planning and Progress Tracking:

• Outline project plans, update progress of execution, including recovery plans.
• Conduct revenue and profit analysis.

Technology Trends and Product Development:

• Research and identify emerging technology trends relevant to customer needs and business strategy
• Identify technology trends, Create new products.
• Provide strategic input into product roadmaps and innovation initiatives.

Sales and Pre-sales Management:

• Drive and manage technology evaluation stage.
• Coordinate with suppliers for product cost and quotations.
• Expand sales and pre-sales efforts.
• Plan and handle presentations to customers, third parties, and suppliers.
• Attend meetings with relevant parties.

Project Leadership and Coordination:

• Organize and lead project staff.
• Notify line manager of issues, customer complaints, and new business opportunities.
• Escalate issues, customer complaints, and new business opportunities to the line manager.
• Travel to various offices as required.

Documentation and Training:

• Create project documentation.
• Provide skills transfer and training to engineers.
• Assist technical team in delivering Enterprise IT solutions.

Solution Evaluation and Deployment:

• Evaluate and ensure best-fit solutions.
• Support end-to-end deployment of services and complex solutions.
• Support investigations and redesign of installed network devices.

Vendor Management and Ad hoc Support:

• Maintain 3rd party vendor certificates and partnerships including his/her own certificates.
• Handle ad hoc requests from line manager and senior management.

IT  Pre-Sales Specialist  - Requirements:

Proposal / Documentation Skills and Technical Proficiency / Knowledge:

• Proven project management skills and experience, including conflict resolution 
• Strong knowledge of network and security products/services such as routers, switches, firewalls, SASE, Monitoring and other security related solutions. 
• High interest and potential knowledge in emerging enterprise IT technologies including AI, data science, workflow automation, Power Platform, IoT, and related innovations.
• Maintenance and installation experience of network & server infrastructure. 
• Familiarity with Windows Servers/PCs, VDI, VM and good understanding of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS platforms like AWS and Azure. 
• Ability and Proficiency to create high standard technical documentation, including high & low level Design Docs.

Certifications and Experience:

• Valid PMP or PRINCE2 Speciality or equivalent certification with hands-on experience is strong advantage. 
• Valid CISSP is highly is in strong advantage 
• Valid CCNP is highly is in highly advantage 
• Experience in designing, troubleshooting, and evaluating solutions

Flexibility, Language, Self Management and Teamwork:

• Flexible approach to work hours and strong time management and multitasking skills.
• Fluent in English (reading/writing/speaking/listening).
• Strong sense of responsibility, work ethics, and reliable attendance.
• Ability to work within a team and to delegate tasks within the team.
• Promotion and following of company rules and procedures.

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