Life on the team As part of our journey to become Europe's leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, enabling users and their business.
We are looking to grow our solutions team with in data center and hybrid technologies with an exceptional Presales Solution Lead.
The Data Center & Hybrid business exists to help customers access and deploy world class infrastructure to support their applications and data, and drive their business forward.
As a Presales Solution Lead you will be responsible for working alongside our Solution Sales Specialists to help customers select technologies and access Computacenter professional services, and build lasting trusted adviser relationships with some of the world's largest customers.
What you'll do - Work independently, and alongside our Solution Sales Specialists and Account Managers to identify, qualify and progress complex transformation opportunities in the fields of Data Center, Hybrid and Edge - Help position technologies from leading industry partners, alongside Computacenter's core catalogue of professional services – for private cloud, migration, application discovery and more - Build lasting relationships with key stakeholders at identified customers, becoming a trusted adviser on technical strategy - Understand and be an expert internally for our core Data Center & Hybrid go to market propositions and advocate for these amongst the sales community - Support the growth of the Data Center & Hybrid Solution Area and delivery against its sales targets Secondary Responsibilities and Opportunities - Help influence the development of the propositions and strategy of the Data Center & Hybrid Solution Area, working alongside our group development colleagues and Office of the CTO - Represent Computacenter at partner boards and forums, attend relevant events and conferences and act as a point of technical escalation within the business, ensure that this knowledge is shared across the business.
- Engage within a broad virtual team across Computacenter comprising Professional Services, Group Managed Services, Solution Leaders and Architects to help customers access and procure key technology solutions and services - Providing Proposition and market insight to the Solution Sales Specialist within customer opportunities for both new and core Solutions.
- Develop an understanding of our customers challenges and requirements and ensure that these are relayed into our development programme in order that our solutions address these needs and go to Market remains up to date and compelling.
- Work in conjunction with marketing teams to ensure technical and solution collateral is translated into customer messaging.
- To attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for both Computacenter and the customer.
- Providing Proposition and Market insight to the Specialist within customer opportunities for both new and core Solutions.
- Support the development and maintenance of Sales Enablement collateral and training for each solution developed.
- Support all elements of the sales force (Sector Sales, Specialist Sales) in understanding of our solutions via education, enablement and collateral as required What you'll need - Previous experience in owning customer relationships from a technology perspective - Experience in creating compelling innovative customer solutions within Data Center & Hybrid Technologies - Ability to identify commercial opportunities within Data Center & Hybrid Technologies - Experience with helping customers procure professional services offerings, alongside technology solutions - As we are hiring multiple candidates, we are keen to speak with candidates with specialisms in either technology areas (e.g.
AI, High Performance Compute) or key technology vendors (Dell, NetApp, VMware, IBM etc.)