Senior Presales Consultant

Job Number: 31565

Position Title: Senior Solutions Consultant

External Description:

Our Team

The Pre-Sales team plays a vital role is supporting Informatica’s revenue generation and building Informatica's reputation in the marketplace. We're the frontline evangelists, the direct line to our customers and partners. Backed by the strength of the Informatica brand we act as Trusted Advisors to solve our customers' data problems. This trust is due to the quality products we offer and the knowledge that we can confidently stand behind them with an award winning global support team of experts that are key to our customers' success.

Your Opportunity

We are looking for a Sales Consultant to work as part of the experienced Eastern European & Africa team. The role is to proactively engage with Informatica’s African channel partners and customers to effectively communicate Informatica’s key differentiators. You'll act as an adviser to partners and customers, focused on the market-leading portfolio of Informatica solutions. A key part of the role is working alongside colleagues providing advice and guidance and managing the technical sales cycle.

Our Ideal Candidate

You're technically proficient and have the patience and passion to guide customers and partners through all the capabilities of our products and solutions. Whether it's an initial product evaluation, product demonstration, or addressing technical pain points, you're willing to take the time to provide deep explanations and find solutions where needed. You find a collaborative work environment rewarding yet are equally adept at and content working independently. 

As an influential and effective teacher, you are eager to share your knowledge and best practices and to develop and sustain an open line of communication with your supervisor and teammates. If your team members, partners or customers are in remote locations, you are comfortable with travel in order to engage face-to-face.

In addition, you have the following attributes:

• An ability to rapidly understand and translate clients' business challenges and concerns into a solution-oriented discussion.
• Persuasive communication skills for presenting to all customer levels, from CTOs/CIOs, to engineering managers and programmers.
• Demonstrate a passion for Informatica, motivating partners who work alongside us.
• Resourcefulness, creativity and strategic thinking for troubleshooting problems.

Your Responsibilities

You'll serve as the owner of the technical agenda with responsibility for explaining, training, analyzing and selling the technical aspects of the solution to partners and customers.

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Technical management for a number of partners within Africa.
• Respond promptly to customer questions with technical explanations of product features and capabilities.
• Serve as a technical coach to your colleagues in sales, professional services, product management and engineering.
• Prepare and deliver differentiated solution presentations or technical proposals.
• Deliver and/or coordinate differentiated solution demonstrations to clients and prospective customers.
• Manage technical validation activities including Proof of Concepts.
• Speaking at events.

Your Qualifications

• A college degree.
• At least five years of experience in a pre-sales consulting role, preferably in Enterprise software solutions (Data Integration, Data Quality, MDM, B2B, Business Intelligence, Cloud, ESB, Databases), ideally using Informatica products.
• Excellent written communication skills, experience of preparing proposals and responses to ITTs.
• Experience of managing Proof Of Concept activities on customer premises.
• Ability to communicate a technical message with business relevance to a non-technical audience as well as a technical audience
• Excellent presentation abilities and composure in front of all levels of technical and business customers or prospects.
• Ability to read, speak and understand English language.
• Ability to work as part of a virtual team in delivering a proposal.
• Strong technical and business awareness.
• Industry sector knowledge preferred.

City: Gateway West, Waterfall City, Midrand,

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Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

At Informatica we know diversity drives innovation. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination, one where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law and Informatica policy.

Travel Requirement: Up to 50%

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