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Associate Pre Sales Architect
Ahead, Georgia
Experience
1 Year
Salary
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Career Level
Telecommute
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As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Mar 2, 2022
Last Date
Apr 2, 2022
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Job Description
AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
Associate Pre Sales Architect(Internally known as an Associate Client Solutions Architect)
The Associate Client Solutions Architect assists AHEAD Client Directors through formal technical presentations and technical design of AHEAD’s solution and service offerings to existing and prospective clients. The Associate Client Solutions Architect assists with all technical aspects of a sales campaign and hand off to the consulting and services team.
You will engage with multiple Client Directors to continue cultivating and serving existing and prospective clients. As part of this strategy, you and the Client Directors will identify potential solutions and vendors to partner within a given opportunity and drive this strategy throughout the sales campaign.Time management and prioritization are essential attributes of a successful Associate Client Solutions Architect. Your goal is to evolve into the technical thought leader for each of your clients. In this capacity, you will strategize with other resources internally and externally, compare and contrast alternative approaches, and build key relationships, as well as size and configure solutions. Positioning and leveraging Subject Matter Experts (Practice Directors, Solution Principals, Specialists, Client Services, etc.) is a necessity to scale your effectiveness within accounts. You will also be expected to provide insight and details regarding work effort and client engagement to enable tracking of key KPIs throughout the year through tools that will be provided to you.Education is critical to your success at AHEAD. You are expected to continually educate not only yourself, but also our clients and your team resources.Roles and Responsibilities - Possessdeepdata centerfoundations
- AssistwithTechnical Briefings and Lab Demonstrations with clients and partners to showcase AHEAD's value.
- Recognized by the partner community toassisttechnical sales campaigns
- Qualify and position consulting engagements and services.
- Qualify sales opportunities in the terms of client technical requirements, decision making process and funding and decides if we should move forward with the campaign.
- Understand and articulate AHEAD's Enterprise Framework.
- Prioritize opportunities and efforts assigned to the geography based on maximizing total impact on team productivity and profit.
- Drive engagement conversions to additional services / solutions.
- Provide feedback to improve internal efficiencies.
- Present regularly at AHEAD events, user groups, conferences, and forums.
- Assist withSolution Verification / BOM Review process for the geography.
Qualifications- Bachelorsdegree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- 2+ yearsPre Salesand Data Center experience ispreferred
- Professional communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge ofat leastoneof the following data center solutions: storage, networking, compute, virtualization, data center management / automation, and security
- Ability to work under critical conditions and influence others to achieve results
- Strong interpersonal skills with excellent presentation skills
- Must be independent,self motivated, aself starterand possess a good working attitude
- Able to work well within a team and partner environment
- Customer focused and results driven
Why AHEAD:
Transparent managementWork alongside and collaborate with industry expertsInvestment in training amp; developmentIncentives for certificationsAbility to make an immediate impactFlex PTOOutstanding lab Job Specification
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