Technical Presales Consultant

Summary

Join NEC Software Solutions and make a difference in the world! This remote or hybrid role focuses on technical pre-sales, working closely with sales, product owners, and the design team. You will ensure that proposals meet client needs and are achievable for delivery teams. Responsibilities include creating costing models, presenting proposals, and working with customers to understand their requirements. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication, interpersonal, and time management skills, along with experience in a similar role and understanding of hosting solutions. NEC offers a competitive benefits package, including private medical cover, paid time off, life assurance, a group pension plan, and access to LinkedIn Learning.

Requirements

• Experience of engaging with clients and a range of internal stakeholders and demonstrate an ability to explain complex technical solutions to a variety of resources
• An ability to communicate technical information to non-technical staff in a way that is easy to understand
• Costing up solutions based on virtualised and physical platforms with multiple technologies
• Understanding of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions
• Will need to be eligible for NPPV3 and UK Security Clearance
• Ability to cost up and include both resilience and redundancy components into the technical solution
• Strong interpersonal skills, demonstrating a variety of influencing styles to enable effective completion of tasks both individually and within groups
• Ability to manage a number of concurrent projects and good time manage management skills
• Demonstrates an ability to think ‘outside the box’ while defining solutions in a workable form
• Previous experience on designing and implementing solutions within the Public Sector and Central Government marketplace

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the sales team on proposals and pitches for business acting as an NEC hosting pre sales subject matter expert
• Ensuring that the hosting solution will deliver the customer’s requirements.and highlighting risks to the delivery of the solution to the internal NEC stakeholders
• Work closely with customers to understand and capture their business requirements
• Presenting proposals to our customers alongside members of the sales team
• Producing costing models for hosted propositions
• Work closely with NEC Design team to ensure the Technical Design Architects understand the customer requirements and assist them to propose a solution that can be delivered within budget constraints

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally have a technical background, understanding basic network, storage, server , firewall terminology
• Understanding and experience of NEC products
• Previous experience working for a competitor in a similar position would be a strong advantage

Benefits

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like