Network & Security Pre-Sales Consultant

Title: Pre-Sales Consultant (Networking & Security) Location: Warrington Duration: Full time, permanent Package: Up to £65k + Bonus + Benefits Our client, an award winning Systems Integrator, is looking to recruit a Network and Security Pre-Sales Consultant into their team in Warrington. The position is detailed below. Pre-Sales Consultant Role: * Presales Responsibilities * Provide assistance to sales in customer meetings onsite, at the London office or in vendor offices * Provide a High Level Design (HLD) service that deliver quotations, proposal documents, diagrams and input to the design and technical sections of tender responses * Document and present solutions to customer * Provide clear solution handover information to post-sales using an agreed format, Solution Document (with resource description, expectation and caveats) and via a handover meeting with the assigned post sales team * Attend low level design meetings with post-sales and customer staff * To ensure that requests for assistance from the sales team and engineering staff involved with the implementation of scoped projects are serviced in a timely manner and, where applicable, within agreed time scales * To ensure that where customer requirements are unclear for portfolio vendor's products this is clarified in further communication with the customer or escalated to sales or Presales Manager if unresolved * To ensure that where product capabilities are not fully understood, to seek assistance from a relevantly skilled post-sales engineer, vendor (or distributor) system engineering staff to validate solutions prior to providing customer solutions or pricing. * Maintain up to date vendor accreditation levels for key portfolio vendors. This will include Cisco, Microsoft, EMC and Riverbed. Pre-Sales Consultant Requirements: * 5+ years Pre-Sales, Design or Architecture experience * Strong Networking knowledge * Excellent Security knowledge * Proven ability to produce design and technical documentation * Experience of presenting to clients * Excellent knowledge of Cisco, Microsoft and EMC/NetApp * Ideally experience in Riverbed solutions If you are looking to take your career to the next level, with a growing business that has plenty of progression opportunity… please apply NOW