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Pre-Sales Consultant Job Description: Position Purpose The Principal Solutions Consultant (PSC) role within the sales process is to fully understand a prospect’s business problem and construct a solution around that problem leveraging SUSE products. The Senior Solutions Consultant exhibits a high level of sales and business maturity, operates independently in Pre-Sales activities and has the proven ability to quickly understand business problems and find the appropriate SUSE technology offerings and differentiators. A Pre-Sales Principal Solutions Consultant (PSC) interacts with prospective customers through executive meetings, discovery conversations, solution demonstrations, executive presentations and follow-up discussions. The Primary role of the Pre-Sales Senior Consultant during an active sales cycle is to gain acceptance from the customer that SUSE solution can solve the customer’s problem and is the right choice over the other competitive offerings. During these cycles they often take on the role of a Solution Captain. In addition to deal support, a Pre-Sales Senior Consultant collaborates with sales and Industry Value Engineer teams to plan and execute business development strategies. The Principal Solution Consultant (PSC) understands technical architecture and design expertise within the SUSE based technologies, process and integration solutions space. Objectives Prospect Qualification: The PSC aids in qualifying prospects to assure they are well-aligned with SUSE’s go-to market product and solution capabilities. Pre-Sales Lifecycle Management: The PSC provides high quality, business-oriented and technical support to the sales and Pre-Sales team to assure the product-oriented aspects of the sales campaign are strongly aligned with the business objectives of the prospect throughout the sales cycle. Account Management: The PSC owns key accounts from a technical and solution perspective, and in some ways from a Business perspective to identify ongoing opportunities and guide business users. Prospect and Customer Facing Own and progress opportunities through the qualification, definition, proof/evaluation, proposal and closure stages of the sales cycle with attention to timelines. Respond to the functional and business requirements and capabilities sections of RFI/RFPs Engage with the sales representative and prospect to ensure a prospect’s business needs can be addressed with SUSE’s current and roadmap product capabilities. Listen, understand, and analyze the prospect’s business requirements and compose, validate, and present the best possible SUSE solution Prepare and deliver value-based “fit to standard” software demonstrations/presentations in support of sales cycles. Preparation includes personalization of materials to ensure delivery of a simple, appealing and compelling customer presentation Lead teams of solution consultants on implementation of proof of value and customer demos. If no solutions consultants exist within the current structure, then the PSC will take care of this. Ensure the demonstration fulfills the prospect’s requirements and highlight and differentiate SUSE’s capabilities. Work with other PSCs to define the prospect’s target solution architecture that fulfills their business objectives. Work with the Sales to structure the proposal that meets the prospect’s target architecture. Prospect and Customer Technical/Solution Liaison Establish trust relationships with customers and prospects and understand their objectives. Solicit and provide product feedback from customers and prospects. Participate in meetings and conferences with customers and partners to serve as a liaison between SUSE internal organizations such as Technical Support and Product Research and Development. Identify new opportunities within new and existing customer accounts where SUSE solutions or products can be used. Internal Facing Advise internal senior management on the technical and business strategy within active deals. Maintain alignment with Marketing and Product Management of existing and Future SUSE suite capabilities and help drive product innovation. Keep up to date with any new SUSE solutions across the business lines. Understand functionality and interoperability of SUSE components. Collect and communicate competitive intelligence from the field Be a Go-To Person on competitive information for Products, Process, Industry and Verticals Exchange best practices and share knowledge within SA and Pre-Sales Community Guide Solution Consultants and Pre-Sales in Technical and Business situations to become more effective in handling objections and customer challenges Works with Product Research and Development to influence the incorporation of key capabilities that increase the competitiveness of SUSE’s product offering. Customer-Oriented Skills Experience engaging with senior leaders (CxO level) on various solutions and business problems. Able to listen and analyze a prospect’s requirements and present to a compelling business value message of a solution Possess deep and expert knowledge of finance, procurement, order to cash, manufacturing, supply chain or projects Demonstrated ability to present business solutions to executive levels with a focus on solutions selling Provide Pre-Sales support to the largest, most well-qualified deals Ability to, review and augment Proof of Value documents, and various project plans involving SUSE technologies. Able to work independently and multi-task while managing multiple customer opportunities at a time Ability to give guidance and consult with customers on various levels of the organization. Business and Leadership Skills Demonstrate a team attitude and leadership Ability to act as a mentor due to outstanding character, judgment and knowledge Excellent written and verbal communication skills Proven ability to manage time and deliver on deadlines Experience developing and presenting clear and concise product briefings Proven ability to unearth business requirements & drivers Proven ability to map business drivers & initiatives to technology offering & differentiators Able to lead teams of solution consultants on Proof of Values, Solution/Architecture Planning and custom demos. Ability to lead Discovery and Customer First Assessment Meetings to identify business value and ROI for complex business challenges Technology and Consultative Skills Strong understanding of SUSE’s products including internal architecture, with an ability to leverage these in the sales cycle. Strong experiences with implementation of SUSE technologies in customer projects or Proof of Values. Expert in providing best practices to customers and helping with IT Strategy and implementation planning related to SUSE solutions domain Have good Technical/Solution understanding and speaking knowledge about SUSE's products and capabilities Education and Experience BS Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Similar Qualification or Work Experience “Excellent” experience in Consultative and Solution Selling Pre-Sales role Understanding of business infrastructure technology, Experience with Internet software development concepts Experience with Business Infrastructure concepts (SOA, BPM, BAM, EAI,API) Very strong in-depth knowledge of SUSE core technologies or similar technologies Cloud Technology and Solution Experience Job: Sales SUSE is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Prospective employees will receive consideration without discrimination because of race, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship or any other legally protected status

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