Pre Sales Engineer

Junior Presales Engineer

A highly successful IT and data centre services provider which operates predominantly in the south-east, extending nationally and worldwide from their base in Chelmsford, Essex. They work with a diverse range of clients ranging from schools and local businesses through to large multi-national organisations and data centre co-location providers.

The Role

• Develop a thorough and expansive knowledge of products and services.
• Build and develop relationships within our clients.
• Assist with initial fact finding and early-stage sales process and participate in Sales calls.
• Work on client instructions and fact find to design and build proposals & quotations.
• Create simple designs and assist on complex solutions.
• Maintain detailed and up-to-date client contact records within the CRM.
• Support the sales, business development and marketing team in relevant activities.
• Work with Sales lead to develop service expansion with current and new clients.
• Support the Sales Team to help achieve sales & market share growth in line with business plans and budgets.
• Research potential business opportunities, industry trends and developments

This position is a fantastic opportunity for someone interested in technology & communications networks. We would like you to be customer focused and self-motivated, with lots of energy and a 'go-getter' attitude. It's important that you are technically minded, an excellent listener and communicator and have good organization, administration and relationship-building skills.

Who We Want

• We're looking for a confident, motivated, results-driven, assertive and effective team player that is well organised, methodical, reliable and dependable.
• Acting as a key point of contact for some of their key accounts, you will be responsible for providing technically adept, easy to understand quotes and designs. You ultimately need to be able to understand and sell the value of their services and contribute to the growth of
• The role will see you turning around multiple quotations, responding to clients, and assisting Sales leadership with various activities to help close and win orders.

Knowledge and Experience

• You must be an excellent verbal and written communicator with an ability to learn, understand, explain and articulate complex processes and information at all levels.
• Knowledge of IT & Networking technology or similar technical or services-based company.
• Some general business acumen and customer management skills.
• Experience within a similar IT service, structured cabling, managed services, data centre company would be highly desirable.
• Flexibility with a strong work ethic
• Full UK driving licence

Technical Skills

• Need to be fully conversant with MS Office, particularly Excel and Powerpoint.
• Adaptable and natural at picking up and utilising new technologies.
• Pipeline and CRM management tools.
• Quoting tool management.

You'll get

• Bonus/incentives in a dynamic team
• Pension contributions
• Private health benefits
• Training and development courses