Pre-sales Consultant

Job Function: Cloud & Software Services Why SoftwareONE?:
Today SoftwareONE is a global leader in software and cloud portfolio management and is modernizing the way organizations budget and optimize their global IT spend from on-premises to the cloud.

In tandem, our Software Lifecycle Management (SLM) services provide the methodology and framework to optimize the underlying IT infrastructure, accelerate cloud adoption and minimize compliance risk.

With our dynamic leadership and driven business strategy SoftwareONE is one of the fastest growing technology solution providers in the world with elite partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Adobe, IBM, VMware, Oracle, Citrix, Red Hat, Trend Micro and many more.

The role:
This role also serves as the liaison between the assigned AM and Business Development Executives and customers for new Solution & Services opportunities, supporting effective & efficient handover into delivery & customer success resources.

In this role your focus will be working with the pre-sales of the SoftwareONE Solutions & Services, which are specialized in AWS

Core Accountabilities:

- Lead Presentations, service architecture, coordinate complex decision-making processes and overcome objections in order to maximize opportunities
- To analyse & gather business requirement from complex client environment and perform required research and investigation to identify and create thorough, accurate technical solution proposals based on requirements, aligned to the SoftwareONE customer journey’s.
- Prepares cost estimates, proposals & appropriate contracts for solutions & services sales
- Works with BDE and AM teams to contribute to sales engineering effectiveness by identifying short-term and long-range issues that must be addressed; providing information and commentary pertinent to deliberations; recommending options and courses of action; implementing directives.
- Assist and support partnership/alliance functions to assigned vendor partner relationships. This may include being primary contact for Partner/Channel Account Managers and assisting in GTM and business planning as well as driving forward programmatic initiatives.

What we need to see from you:
**Skills**:

- Highly motivated and results oriented - evidence of consistently exceeding acquisition specific
- performance metrics
- 5 years of proven sales experience, including at least 3 years of experience selling / pre-sales or as a solution architects for AWS products and services, with documented successful sales of enterprise-wide solutions & services (Professional & Managed Services)
- Ability to independently conduct meetings with engineering-level, management-level or executive level customer personnel in regard to positioning complex solutions & services
- High level of knowledge of internal organization working and Information Technology trends
- Ability to build relationships and quickly develop trust with C-level executives
- Proven track record of consistently exceeding corporate objectives, quotas & targets

**Cloud Services Skills**:

- Evidenced network of AWS contacts
- Solid understanding of AWS principles, architecture and management
- Understanding of IaaS, PaaS service delivery
- Understanding around migration planning & execution including migration to Azure, re-platforming of on-premises solutions to cloud-native incl. compute, network and storage, logging & monitoring;
- Proposing problem solving activities and approaches for dynamic customer challenges within
- engagements
- Technology and business enablement advocate to advise the best practice methods in how to utilize IT to drive competitive advantage.
- Experience in building value propositon around implementing Hybrid Cloud solution projects.
- Ability to provide expert guidance to customers, driving solution architecture, and ensuring solution
- strategy is optimally aligned with business strategy

**Essential**:
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

**Desired**:
AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Security Fundamentals

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What you should really know about us.:
Strip away everything. Strip away our brand, strip away our buildings, strip away our offices. What are we left with? Our people. This is what makes SoftwareONE successful.

Passionate people who live and breathe our values every day, who delight our customers, every day, and who go above and beyond, every day. Our culture is unique, and I believe that having the right people, and empowering them to succeed, is the absolute key to our success.

Patrick Winter, Founder.

What we expect from our employees:
Success at SoftwareONE is not defined by what you do for yourself, but by what you deliver for our customers, the business and for the employees around you. SoftwareONE employees are energized, agile and are laser focused on delivering world class Customer Satisfaction and results. Our leaders motivate and inspire their teams and provide a working