Pre-Sales Engineer - London

£40,000 - £50,000 commission scheme plus excellent benefits package and bonus potential

The Job:
The opportunity involves addressing all support aspects of the sales process. This will include:
? Giving demonstrations and presentations to senior customer representatives, up to Board level.
? Quickly attaining a good understanding of each customer?s requirements so that an optimum solution can be offered.
? If no packaged solution exists, working with the customer, the development team and the sales force to create a detailed requirements specification in order to produce a Proof of Concept proposal that meets the clients? requirements.
? Project manage the Proof of Concept process from initial installation through to customer acceptance.
? Assist new clients with the planning of their installation.
? Provide Post-Sales Support to customers as part of the larger Support team.
? This position is based in London and may require occasional travel within Europe.

The Person:
? Should ideally be qualified to degree level.
? Must have worked in a pre-Sales position for a software vendor.
? Must have excellent interpersonal skills, as this position involves significant contact with senior level end-user and IT support professionals.
? Will need to work very closely with the local IT support teams and end users at client sites in order to ensure that the correct solution is specified and delivered.
? Our client operates in an environment that is at the leading edge of technology. Our success is based upon our ability to stay ahead of the market, and offer innovative solutions that take advantage of the latest advances in hardware and software. It is therefore of great importance that all our staff are capable of staying in touch with the latest developments in our business and the technology that supports it.
? Excellent oral, written and presentation skills are essential.
? Hours are 9am to 5:30pm, but there will be a requirement to work outside of these hours when requested by our clients. A flexible approach to working hours will be essential.

Technical Requirements:
? Expert knowledge of the pre-Sales process is essential.
? Hands on experience of at least one of our competitors product will be a significant advantage; these include:-

HP : Openview, (also known as ITO)
IBM : Tivoli Netcool Micromuse
Reuters : Hawk
CA : Unicentre
NetIQ AppManager
Quest Software : Big Brother
BMC : Patrol
Optier : Optier
Tevron : CitraTest
Netscout : nGenius

? Must have Administrator level experience of Unix systems, particularly Solaris, but other versions such as HP-UX, Linux or AIX will be useful.

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