PreSales Analyst

LogiNext is looking for an experienced and dedicated Presales Solutions Manager to become a part of our fast growing team. A tech enthusiast that you are, you will be passionate about conveying value to our clients while closing huge and complex deals. With a deep understanding of Enterprise SaaS application, you will offer solutions where LogiNext products can be put to best use helping client’s achieve visionary objectives.

You should be a reliable technical advisor to clients and overcome complicated implementation challenges. You will lead the solution design throughout the sales cycle and deliver ideas and solutions to clients to change their customer’s experience. You should have an intense desire to set the vision transforming business goals into exciting and actionable propositions.

Responsibilities :

Develop and convey out-of-the-box solutions, along with solution ideas to key decision makers to focus on their business issues Understand and articulate the benefits of LogiNext products to educate enterprise clients on the value proposition of our products Conduct on-field and on-site Proof of Concepts wherever required to assist clients validate technical requirements Associate with Account managers and Business Development managers to pilot complex deal cycles with C-level executives Work cross-functionally with business development, marketing, technology and finance team to ensure the timely and successful delivery of the solutions according to customer needs and objectives Recognize product and technology disparity with customers and present a point of view to product and leadership teams Run change management programs to drive change on the ground by working with client’s on-field workforce at the warehouse or remote branches Perform business analytics on the client’s business KPIs and present to the client’s management Generate leads by reaching out to prospective clients across countries and time-zones Assist business development manager in achieving the sales targets by conducting pilots, showcasing results and building conviction at the client

Requirements :

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Management, Statistics or related field 4 to 7 years of experience in technical pre-sales or sales preferably in SaaS companies Solid know-how of Enterprise SaaS products Ability to multi task at a high degree with passion, strong initiatives and positive attitude Advanced skill-set for driving system integrations, gathering requirements, documenting RFI/RFPs and cross-functional project management Proficient in Excel and SQL Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to persuade, influence, negotiate and make formal presentations in meetings and training environments Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and sense of humor, is a plus Strong organizational skills, judgment and decision-making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure Willingness to travel around 100% of the time within the city and between cities

Prospecting and Lead Generation US market - SaaS products

Farming, Cold reachout, existing relationships, partnerships

Product demo, proposal drafting, negotiation, contracts 

CRM (ZOHO) mgmnt

Exceed monthly, quarterly, annual targets

Responsibilities:
● Work closely with the sales team in the area of product fitment and delivery expectations
● Deliver Presentations and Demos of Products to both technical and non-technical
customers
● Work with the product development teams to capture new customer requirements and
develop and expand the product portfolio
● Work with the post-sales/ Project implementation team in handing over any pre-sales
efforts
● professionally represent the company and build good relationships with
clients to the company’s benefit


Qualifications:
● 1-4 years experience in the Technology industry and/or hands-on working experience in SAAS
products
● Excellent presentation and communication skills
● Should have excellent English communication skills (both written & verbal)
● General application and technology knowledge
● Creates concise, clear documentation in support of projects.
● Fulfills role in external or internal project teams
● Project Management skills
● Skilled in crafting feedback and delivering enablement and training
● Expert MS PowerPoint and MS Word skills
● A flexible attitude and an ability to produce excellent work with minimal guidance

Job Purpose:

As the Presales Manager Infrastructure Services, you will provide consultancy services by analysing customer requirements and providing quality and cost-effective solutions to produce high quality bid proposal to our customers. You will help the organization improve its profit potential and competitive standing through continuous reviews and enhancements on products and solutions trending.

Key Accountabilities

·       Build and maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date bid materials and templates

·       Produce high quality solution and bid proposal to increase the winning chances of bids

·       Strategize and maintain standardization of products and solutions align to partnership strategy and business direction

·       Be the brand custodian

·       Team Manager

Job Responsibilities & Duties

·       Provides infrastructure presale support to internal/external team during bidding.

·       Gather bid/user requirement from tender specification; evaluates and recommends new/upgrade of software and hardware to meet the project/tender requirement.

·       Provides infrastructure architecture design through industrial best practices and standards.

·       Provides infrastructure consultancy to internal/external team.

·       Profound understanding of the interdependencies of the services (application, system, network and database) and their failover capabilities in a n-Tier Data Center Environment

·       Keeps abreast of technological advancement, emerging standards and new software or hardware solutions to continuously provide proven, innovative, cost-effective and quality solution.

·       Ability to apply experiences and knowledge into Infrastructure solutions

·       Must have good technical skills and know-how to assist in technical solution selling

·       Ability leading and conducting Proof-Of-Concept (POC) and Demo activities to assist sales in closing deals

·       Excellent communication and presentation skills (Tender presentation)

·       Excellent documentation skills with fluent English for Technical write-up and proposal writing

·       Provides technical guidance to junior colleagues in their work

·       Any other duties as and when assigned.

Financial Accountabilities

·       To meet the set target revenue and profit yearly set by the management committee

Minimum Education/Qualifications

·       Degree in Computer Science or related IT discipline with minimally 8 years of relevant experiences in System Integrator environment

Minimum Years/Type of Experience

·       An experience Team player.

·       Generally, the candidate should have minimally 5 years of relevant working experiences in establish system Integrator organization with IPv6 domain experiences.

·       He/She should have good domain knowledge in Government bid process and their domain solution.

·       In addition, he/she should have the experiences and skillsets in the following Infrastructure domain areas:

o  Networking: Preferably CCNP with in depth knowledge of market leading brands of Firewalls, Load Balancers, Routers and Switches, IPS/IDS, Global Traffic Manager, Wireless and IP Telephony in a n-Tier Data centre environment.

o  Application: Familiar with middleware products and their role on multi-tier architecture, broad understanding of the ORACLE and IBM suits and RedHat JBoss group of Middle-wares.

o  Databases: Sound knowledge and experiences with different types of database products, replication technologies and (eg. Oracle, IBM DB2, MSSQL, MySQLs) and their role on multi-tier architecture in a multi-sites environment.

o  Server: Sound knowledge and experiences on server virtualization and able to calculate the compute resources sizing based on project requirements inputs; good understanding of architecture components for all tiers, storage, back up and server security. General understanding of the major hardware platforms (Oracle Sun, IBM, HP, DELL, etc).

o  Storage: Sound knowledge and experiences on storage networking and data replication, sizing requirements, implementations and SAN / NAS replication as well as COLD / WARM DR storage architecture. Preferably having a good understanding of FCoE, FCIP concept and theory would be advantage.

o  Security: Preferably CISSP certified and familiar with the industry trends in relation to security solutions and best practices such as infrastructure hardening, endpoints and SIEM solution, advance threats and mitigation know-how.

o  Cloud: Good understanding of Cloud Computing solutions with experiences in design, implementation and      operation of IaaS. PaaS platform for various type of hypervisors. Essential knowledge in Micro-services architecture (Kubernetes)

o  Essential knowledge of Government Infrastructure Policies and Implementation knowledge in Government      Commercial Cloud and Private Cloud

- Generating business through online freelancing portal likes freelancer, upwork, guru etc.

- Good write proposals skill for projects

- Setup portfolio on websites and get projects through these websites

- Should be comfortable in client interaction

- Should have prior experience in software or Web Development Company.

- Candidates should be dynamic enough to achieve our monthly or quartely targets.

• Lead and design solutions for complex testing problems by driving the requirements discussions with existing customers
• Conceptualize, design, develop and present the proposed solution; ensuring an integrated end-to-end testing solution is delivered 'right first time'
• Responsible for end to end pre-sales pursuit management in coordination with cross functional teams such as sales, delivery, horizontals, networking, marketing and process teams in global delivery model for the existing accounts
• Stay up to speed on process, practice and technology developments to ensure they enhance the solutions applied to the testing problems
• Act as a technical liaison between prospects, clients, quality engineering teams and management
• Engage with the customer build professional relationship; participate in teleconferences; lead customer workshops and presentations
• Mentor and train team members on domain and technology, help resolve any technical issues
• Travel to customer location across the geography to participate in proposal / RFP / SOW defense discussions and presentations
• Lead continuous improvement activities through contribution to technology repositories, supporting process change, leading transformational changes and driving re-use

Good to have Skills / Experience

• 14-18 years proven experience as a Solution Architect on large-scale testing accounts
• Experience as a Solution Architect or senior SME leading the development of solutions for testing complex systems, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers.
• Awareness of testing approaches, practices, techniques and methodologies to help design the overall testing solution
• Ability to have conversation with client (key stakeholders or key technologist at client). Ability to drive the discussion and arrive at conclusion
• The ability to see the big picture and manage multiple threads at the same time
• Well-versed in continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous testing
• Understand and plan for commercial aspects and impact on winnability and deliverability of the solution
• In depth knowledge of one or more technical specializations including - quality engineering, release management, test environment management, test automation, test data management, testing approaches and test execution, performance engineering, development operations.
• Experience with all SDLC (Agile, Scaled Agile, DevOps) and engagement models
• Strong stakeholder relationship management and the confidence to initiate and influence relationships with and between key stakeholders
• Know the art of negotiation, persuasion and deal management

• Maintaining long-lasting relationships with existing customers through exceptional after-sales service.
• Actively sourcing new sales opportunities through cold-calling and emailing.
• Developing in-depth knowledge of product features and benefits.
• Utilizing virtual meetings to build relationships with new customers.
• Processing customers' purchase orders and liaising with the logistics department to ensure the timely delivery of ordered products.
• Advising customers on suitable product selection based on their needs and specifications.
• Creating a sales pipeline to accurately reflect the relative placement of sales prospects in the purchasing process.
• Following up on sales inquiries that are made by potential customers through website chats, emails, and inbound calls.
• Setting up face-to-face meetings between potential customers and Outside Sales Representatives.

• High school diploma or GED.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Management, Marketing, or related field is preferred.
• Proficiency in all Microsoft Office applications and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
• Proven sales experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent negotiation and consultative sales skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Exceptional customer service skills.