Pre sales manager

Nicholas Howard are delighted to be recruiting for a Pre-Sales Manager to join a leading Systems Integrator. We are looking for an experienced Technical Pre-Sales professional, with strong technical knowledge across a broad range of domains, from cloud and information security to networking and virtualisation. This role will have a particular interest in AI, especially conversational AI, AIOps, and automation. The successful candidate will join a team of Pre-Sales Managers who work across a number of technical domains, with the company now gaining significant traction in the AI/conversational AI space, so we are looking for an individual with strong recent experience in this arena, while also being capable of supporting work across other technical areas. Key skills * Successful Pre-Sales delivery, including technical, resourcing and commercial specification of major projects * Core skills and experience in Generative Artificial Intelligence (Conversation /or AIOps) Data Centre Migration, Cloud Migration and Managed Outsource Services * Strong design capabilities (medium to large engagements) ndash; Understanding of Technical Design Authority as well as project governance and managed service (ITIL) methodologies * Ownership of presales engagement * Strong understanding of markets, opportunities and competitors, as well as business issues and challenges * Strong written and verbal communication skills ndash; ability to deliver effective and persuasive presentations and demo rsquo;s to Bell Integrations customers and employees * Excellent consulting and interpersonal skills; proven ability to influence and gain consensus * Structured problem solving and analytical skills * Collaborative working style encompassing all delivery disciplines * Able to lead real and virtual teams to reach one common end goal * Provide technical mentoring General Skills * Experienced professional services/technical consultant to deliver presales engagements * Proven experience as a successful Pre-Sales consultant with customer relationship management, technical pre-/post-sales experience * Demonstrated technical design and implementation of infrastructure solutions * Demonstrate Service Design and Project Governance skills and experience * Project facilitation ensuring delivery of services set up in line with customer rsquo;s needs * Demonstrable ability to work as a consultant to CIO/IT Director level. * Manage workshop environments, taking ownership and leading all aspects of workshop facilitation. * Interface with Project Managers and the client rsquo;s IT staff to ensure effective delivery of services * Demonstrable ability to provide robust and clear feedback to customers Technical Expertise * Educated to degree level, or equivalent technical experience / qualifications * Demonstrable knowledge of Artificial Intelligence solution concepts such as conversational AI, AIOps Generative AI * AI core infrastructure and supporting software components, LLM modules, ML and translation engines * Core platform and Operating Systems expertise and experience * Strong understanding of associated Core OS technologies and tools (such as DNS, Directory Services, management tools, Clustering, replication, IP/Subnets, storage, backup etc) * Data centre cloud technologies and techniques This is a fantastic opportunity to join a hugely successful business as it continues to grow in an exciting marketplace delivering cutting edge AI technology. Please register your interest by applying now