Pre-Sales Consultant

Pre-Sales Consultant | Birmingham | £35,000 – £45,000

Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists are currently looking for an experienced Technical Analyst/Support to join a growing, professional and friendly Software company.

As Pre-Sales Consultant | Technical Analyst this job opportunity is customer facing where you will provide technical guidance & support from initial customer contact to requirements scoping, solution demonstration through to oversight of installation and implementation.

If you have progressed from a technical support role, Microsoft .net based software to a customer facing pre-sales Consultant then you will be very suited.

If you are motivated, confident and experienced self-starter who can hit the ground running, who is personable and professional, and can liaise clearly & constructively with customers & partners with the required pre-requisites we would like to hear from you.

Windows technology stack experience of hands-on software support & requirements analysis are a must, project management skills an advantage. The job role requires experienced technical evaluation & guidance in pre-sales situations with technical support right through to ‘Go-Live’.

You will enjoy being part of a like-minded team, co-ordinating across the sales/technical divide, within a friendly culture working with an innovative portfolio of software solutions.

Job responsibilities:

Working closely with customers & partners to understand and capture requirements

Ensuring that the company’s solutions can deliver on the customer’s requirements

Working closely and collaboratively with customers & partners to devise effective solutions

Putting together technical use cases to support business development proposals

Attending pre-sales & scoping meetings acting as the technical expert

Working closely with business development & partners on proposals and pitches

Providing ongoing technical support for customers through to Go-Live including systems admin training and handover

Work with commercial, software development & testing colleagues

Job pre-requisites:

You will have strong logical, data manipulation and problem-solving skills

Be able to articulate concepts in both business and technical terms communicating to both system developers and system end users

Ability to self-start and desire to drive issues through to resolution

Attention to detail, strong organisational skills and a drive to provide timely, accurate technical guidance & support to our business development, customers & partners

Technical Experience:

Good understanding of Microsoft .Net & IIS

Good confidence with Windows 2008 & 2012 core setup and configuration

Good understanding of Dell Servers as well as optimal server architecture

Good understanding of server virtualisation with Hyper-V and VMWare

Good understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and VPNs

Good understanding of what Single Sign On, is

Experience with SQL Server 2008 and upwards as well as MySQL

General SQL experience including general DB Admin functions

Understanding of .Net Web Services and ASP,NET

Experience/Understanding of JavaScript, JQuery

Experience with Configuration of Microsoft Active Directory would be advantageous

If you are interested, please send a copy of your CV to Claire at Jonothan Bosworth for more information.