PreSales Solution Partner at Orange Business Services - Nigeria

Job description
About the role

• Pre-Sales support for Africa Sales team across Network and other BU solutions to multinational customers
• Building solutions across multiple domains and solution blocks
• Customer facing engagement
• Internal engagement to Sales and central teams
• Build technical solutions and documentation
• Proposal generation - RFP
• Strong focus on governance and process
• Support of Order to Bill where required

About you

• Strong broad generalist skills
• Hands on Low-Level Design
• Customer workshop facilitation
• Crisis management
• Working under pressure
• Experience working with and designing RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP routing protocols
• Reasonable commercial acumen
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• “can do”, customer-focused attitude
• Team Player
• Good Presentation skills
• Ability to engage customers, understand issues and pain points in their ICT environment and map these to solution from Orange Business Services
• Able to work independently and with rigour and speed
• Creative and can take initiative and be pro active
• Able to manage Technical bid workstreams and contribute to large and complex bid programs
• Ability to write compelling technical documentation

Additional information
Training

• Cisco CCNP
• TOGAF/ ITIL advantageous
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in Telecommunications or IT field
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• French advantageous

Experience

• 5 – 10 years experience
• Previous experience in the Pre Sales and Networking area
• Strong generalist understanding of Microsoft, Fortinet and other industry vendors
• Strong understanding on MPLS and building multinational Network Solution
• VoIP understanding
• Design, Build and Manage experience
• Understanding of ITIL and operational support requirements for Enterprise customers
• Understanding of the Africa Telecoms and regulatory environment.
• Understanding of the Africa competitive landscape for Enterprise Telco services