Consulting System Engineer

World Wide Technology

Consulting Systems Engineer / Technical Pre Sale

Permanent

About the Company:

World Wide Technology has been rated 19th best company to work on Fortune Global Top 100. We believe this is due to ensuring that our employees feel valued and understand that they are our greatest asset. WWT prides itself on having a continued development of strong workplace culture, creativity and innovation, workforce diversity & global cultural awareness.

About the Role:

WWT EMEA UK currently has an opportunity available for a Consulting Systems Engineer to support our growing European Sales and Engineering team located in London UK. This Technical Pre-Sales Engineer will support enterprise clients in the UK, Europe and global markets. Qualified candidates need to have, or be in the advanced stages of achieving a High-Level technical accreditation with one or a number of the key vendors that WWT are engaged with. Examples would be: Cisco, VMware, DellEMC, HPe, NetApp, Nvidia.

Responsibilities:

• Engaging effectively with the International Accounts field sales team in support of customer pursuits, to advance sales campaigns and build rapport with customer contacts
• Be the technical principal with accounts and customers
• Assist in developing Statements of Work and Bills of Materials
• IT infrastructure design and architecture lead
• Takes ownership for technical agenda with customer
• Attend and lead customer business meetings with and without Account Executives
• Recognise, support and assist in the scope and pricing of Professional Services work
• Develop and maintain customer relationships
• Present and hold technology conversations with senior members of the customer (CXO)
• Serve as the technical liaison to not just our customers but also internally to WWT
• Building strong relationships in the EMEA region with WWT’s key OEM partners to foster collaboration and field level engagement

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of pre-sales, technical / customer experience
• High Level Technical Accreditations with a major vendor
• Proven track record of solutions selling and consulting.
• Multi-threaded and broad technical experience / exposure
• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments, ideally at medium / large scale customer base
• Experience of projects in at least one key market vertical, examples including Pharmaceuticals, Retail, Finance or Manufacturing
• Demonstrable consultative technical “selling” skills – able to rapidly extract the customer’s business problems, that can then potentially be solved with technology-based solutions
• Proven client presentation skills
• Strong pre-sales technical skills, and some hands-on skills, in one or more of - Core and Edge networking, Datacentre infrastructure (CI, HCI, Compute, Storage)
• Experience with multiple OEMs

Equal Opportunity Statement:

World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.

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