Technical Pre-sales Support Manager

Technical Pre-sales Support Manager

Our clients, an industry leading supplier of Technology products in Ireland, are looking to recruit a Technical Pre-sales Support Manager to join their team.

The Role:

Reporting to the Head of Security & Emerging Technology, the position of Technical Account Manager is a key role within the Team. The primary function of this role is to develop and lead a Pre-sales technical team across a range of technologies.  To ensure partners are technically enabled to sell, implement and support our product set.

• Assist the B2B sales team with technical configurations across enterprise class server, storage, cloud, back up and compliance solutions
• Assist with customer engagements as an extended Presales Resource for the Partner
• Be the voice of the company for technical engagement with partners
• Facilitate the Sales Life Cycle along with the Partner
• Complete Technical Closure if required
• Enable the Partner to Articulate the Vendor message, discover new opportunities, and Close Deals
• Sales & Presales Enablement
• Provide support services
• Leverage Vendor programs for Enablement activities.

The Person:

• Engineering Degree or equivalent

• Industry Certification advantageous – CCNA, CCNP, Fortinet NSE4+, MCP, VCP
• Knowledge & experience with Dell/EMC, Sonicwall, Fortinet, F5, Cisco would be an advantage
• 3 to 5 years in similar role.
• Some experience of server, storage, security solution deployment and management (firewall, mail, AV, WAF, sandbox, IPS, VPN)
• Understanding of DNS, SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, IPSEC
• Knowledge of virtualisation and cloud technologies
• Knowledge of the following technologies: Datacentre Server & Storage, Routing, Switching, VPN, LAN, WAN, Network Security, Intrusion Detection, and Anti-Virus
• Understanding of encryption and authentication technologies
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills
• Proficient spoken and written English
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Willing to travel to meetings, events and customer sites as necessary.

For more information please call Keith on 01 912 1892 or email keith@executiveedge.ie