Microsoft Pre-Sales Consultant

Description

Job Title: Microsoft Pre-Sales Consultant

Reports to: Technical Director

Department: Sales, Softwerx

Location: Cambridge / East of England / Hybrid working

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 4:30pm 

Salary: Starting at £50,000

We provide outsourced managed services, deployment and migration projects as well as support services to a wide variety of clients using a Microsoft centric technology stack. We are looking to fill several pre-sales positions to directly support the sales team by working closely with our project delivery, security operations and marketing teams.

If you have experience in a pre-sales role working closely with solution design teams or have experience delivering Microsoft 365 related projects and can define and present a solution proposal to clients at all levels this could be the position for you.

As a Microsoft Gold partner we invest heavily in training and provide the time and support for you to achieve accreditations in multiple Microsoft product areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical pre-sales to clients by working closely with sales and project teams to deliver scoping workshops and presentations.
• Assist the sales & marketing teams in articulating our products and services to both technical audiences and business leaders.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and clients at all levels.
• Accurately scope, define and price project work.
• Provide insight and update training with the sales and technical teams.

Essential Skills

• The ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
• A natural communicator with strong presentation skills who can communicate effectively with senior management, business users and technical staff.
• Strong written communications to produce project scopes and sales proposals.
• Self-motivation and organisational discipline.

Essential Experience

• Considerable experience working with Microsoft 365 and Azure in a technical consulting role with a focus on security, identity, and device management technologies.
• Solution design or technical architecture expertise delivering enterprise technology projects.
• A proven track record providing guidance to consulting teams that allows them to execute against customer requirements.

Preferred Experience

• Scoping and design of Office 365 migration projects.
• A working knowledge of the Microsoft Defender product range and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Working in a sales team or with sales processes.
• Microsoft certifications MS500 , AZ500 or SC200

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave allowance per year (25 days standard plus 8 bank holidays)
• Westfield Health Membership (offering cashback on health services plus discounts for retailers and gym memberships)
• Life Cover (2 x basic salary)
• Employer pension contribution (4% employer, 4% employee)
• Referral Scheme
• Continual training and career development