Job title: Data Centre Technical Solutions Manager / Consultancy - Presales
Location: London
Salary: £50-65,000 + bonus + benefits
Major global consultancy requires a Data Centre Technical Solutions Manager to work with the sales teams to create winning solutions that will offer the client value while being technically viable and profitable.
The role is client facing and the work is interesting and varied. Naturally, the job also comes with all the pressures that you would expect in a commercial environment, working on large and complex bids
You will be looking to stretch your technical skills, broaden your commercial abilities and who enjoy challenging yourself to excel on a daily basis.
The successful candidate will:
Develop and provide technical leadership during pre-sales activities with clients (briefings, workshops, POCs, etc.)
Provide support directly to the client sales teams for customer meetings etc.
Help qualify client opportunities from a technical perspective
Select the appropriate product and service offerings that will meet a client's business objectives
Team extensively across marketing, sales/presales, business and delivery
Be expected to manage multiple deals at a time
Typical contract value ranges from $200k to $30m
Provide data centre advice and guidance as required to other teams on larger cross-service line engagements
Take E2E ownership of the complete technical solution and costing, including managing inputs from business partners and suppliers.
Need to be fully mobile and prepared to travel across UK, with some occasional international travel
As an experienced Data Centre Technical Solutions Manager you will have extensive knowledge of major server and storage architectures.
Proven track record in technical sales in the area of DC services (managed server and storage services / DC migration / DC virtualisation / etc).
Pre-sales / bid-team experience including creation of cost models, SOWs, response to RFI/RFP etc.
Experience of DC architecture design and implementation.
Delivering against challenging time frames either alone, or as part of a team.
Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills for C-Level clients e.g. CIO, CTO, CFO
Ideally you will also be experienced across a wide variety of vendor technologies, Cloud, Virtualisation and Standards - ITIL, ISO 27002, etc
If you are looking for a challenging role with an organisation that is keen to help you develop your career then please apply nowHays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk
