Pre-Sales/Solutions Consultant - London

Pre-Sales/Solutions Consultant - London

A leading managed network and infrastructure service provider operating a global network exchange spanning 200 countries worldwide is looking to hire a talented Pre-Sales/Solutions Consultant to join their rapidly expanding London office.

The customer facing Pre-Sales Solutions Consultant will qualify opportunities and provide technical design solutions to customers. The role is highly technical in nature and the Pre-Sales Consultant will work with a range of internal teams to support successful delivery of the solutions.

Responsibilities for the Pre-Sales/Solutions Consultant:

• To be the lead technical contact/authority on the assigned accounts for all pre and post sales activities.
• Engage with customers via face to face meetings, conference calls and emails to understand their technical and business needs.
• Demonstrate products and proposed solutions to technical and non-technical audiences at executive and/or technical levels at pre and post sales meetings.
• Understand future product roadmap, and become an advocate both internally and externally with customers.
• Design a range of technical solutions both standard and non-standard with an emphasis on layers 1 to 3.
• Attend to RFI/RFP/Bids in coordination with carrier Business, Products, Engineering
• Prepare technical design proposals in coordination with Sales, Products and Engineering
• Identify gaps in standard offering and propose alternatives to internal stakeholders for discussion and approval.
• Provide technical training to various internal departments
• Capturing technical requirements and documenting solution details, creating detailed diagrams in Visio
• Providing handover to Service Delivery and Provisioning teams for complex orders.

Technical requirements for the Pre-Sales/Solutions Consultant:

• Layer3 MPLS VPNs
• Layer2 services such as VPLS, EoMPLS, EoWDM and EoSDH
• Layer1 services such as SDH and DWDM and submarine cable systems
• IP Transit and Internet Access
• TDM/IP
• Off-net solutions
• Pricing and proposing hardware: ADMs, Switches and Routers

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