Pre-Sales and Technical Solutions Engineer at Netcom Africa

Job Description

• Provide basic design information of solution scope, functional description, bill of material and specification to serve as a basis for independent delivery / implementation by Project Engineering team and capability owners representatives as applicable.
• Provide Technical Sales Support for the company's portfolio of products and services and effectively communicate the value proposition of offered solutions.
• Collaborate with the Business development department, Capability Owners and other technical OEM resources to ensure proposed deals include technical solutions that accurately address customer needs and are appropriately supported by key customer technical decision-makers.
• To continually keep up with new technologies entering the market and refresh technical sales training and certification to stay current with evolving technologies and continue to develop optimal product and service offering.
• Gather and prioritize customer requirements and other market insights to define the future of Netcom products and services and to recommend new product lines.
• Achieve product and service pre-sales engineering productivity, profitability, and growth targets.
• Develop thorough knowledge of technology relating to the product technology and experience in network, storage, servers, cloud, and security solutions

Experience, Education and/or Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degrees in computer science, network engineering or information security.
• Alternatively, an associate degree when holding technology certifications in networking, (cloud) storage, security, or virtualization.
• 5 years job experience in the information technology or related technical service provider sector.
• A record of achievement and technical solution expertise in a comparable Pre-Sales role.
• Product sales certification, engineering design credentials, or equivalent technical sales credentials for OEM solutions.
• Demonstrated success defining, launching, and managing product lines.