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SunSystems Pre-Sales Consultant

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Location: London

Start Date: ASAP

Apply for this job: recruitment@sapphiresystems.co.uk 

 

Description:  

 

Sapphire is seeking a highly motivated, experienced pre-sales consultant to support the successful achievement of Sapphire sales targets.  The successful candidate will be responsible for matching and providing proof of Sapphire capabilities to business requirements through a professional and ethical business approach endorsing the Sapphire values.  This will include RFI completion, bid co-ordination, prospect qualification and requirement analysis meetings, product demonstrations and architecture design.

 

In addition the successful candidate will be expected to assist further sales into existing Sapphire accounts and help to ensure that customers are successful and referenceable.

 

Key responsibilities include:

 

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Proving our products and services to potential and existing customers by presenting the Sapphire solution and demonstrating the products

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Understand and articulate customer business requirements and develop corresponding solution designs

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Confirm solution fit and identify customer specific benefits that contribute to unique business value offering

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Generate high quality responses to RFI’s and RFP’s

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Create sales support materials to represent Sapphire capabilities

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Maintain solid, technical understanding of Sapphire products in conjunction with business benefits and unique business proposition

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Perform periodic reviews of customer needs, identifying potential issues and opportunities

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Manage product application and technical reviews

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Configure applications for prototyping

 

Personal Qualities and Experience

 

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Educated to degree level preferably with a professional accountancy qualification

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Technical experience that covers databases, internet technologies and infrastructure

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Proven experience in a pre-sales environment

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Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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Excellent presentation skills

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Self-directed individual

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Strong self-motivator

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Adaptable team player with good market knowledge

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Responsive, reliable and results oriented

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Able to work with all levels of customers and partners

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Able to demonstrate business benefit of a technical solution

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Experience of demonstrating ROI in enterprise business space

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Strong understanding of ERP solutions, Internet technologies and architecture including web servers

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Experience working with any of the following major ERP systems (no DBA experience required: SunSystems, Agresso, MS Great Plains, Oracle, SAP, Peoplesoft (MS SQL helpful)

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Experience working with advanced analytics and forecasting applications

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Demonstrable in-depth understanding of sales processes and major account selling/support strategies

 

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