Support deal qualification activity with Sales Specialist and Account Owners for a defined set of products and services within a technology area e.g. Wide Area Networking, LAN or Mobile communications
Understand design brief / tender requirements to enable creation of a statement of requirements for standard products from which to build a solution
Review current customer inventory / specifications to ensure suitable knowledge of customer environment to be accounted for in the solution creation/design/pricing
Identify suitable BT vendors/partners that BT can work with to deliver solutions as and when required
Requesting Deal Registration with vendors to secure preferential pricing and/or terms
Develop Solutions
Engage with BT colleagues and/or customers as appropriate to ensure full understanding of the design briefs
Ensure understanding of any design principles or financial guardrails to ensure solution compliance within BT
Check Network or Service access availability / coverage to identify how the solution will be delivered and identification of potential challenges
Create pricing for standard BT products and services (i.e. where a bespoke or complex solution is not required.)
Build solution pricing (to produce pricing capable of customer acceptance) based on receipt of a detailed design supplied by team colleagues
Pricing of all product components through a mix of the following: inputting deal parameters into appropriate pricing tools, following Salesforce and other online processes, deal registration, submitting front door requests, attending and following relevant governance steps
Follow approved governance processes including seeking relevant pricing sign offs using processes/forms/meetings
Presentation/Deal Closure
Create proposal documentation and/or input to customer presentations for the designed and priced solutions
Re-work pricing/proposal documentation following customer feedback
Prepare customer order forms and CRFs including eSigning
Handover to Delivery
Prepare for handover into delivery
Assist with order input as required into various BT systems
Technical Expertise
Maintain expertise in your chosen technology area to keep up to date with technology developments, market movement, regulation and competitionRole & responsibilities
Preferred candidate profile
Job Classification
Industry: Telecom / ISPFunctional Area / Department: Sales & Business DevelopmentRole Category: BD / Pre SalesRole: Pre Sales ConsultantEmployement Type: Full time