PreSales Solution Partner

Orange Business Services manages and integrates the complexity of international communications, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that drive their business.  Our extensive experience and knowledge in global communication solutions, together with our understanding of multinational business and local support in 166 countries and territories, ensure that our customers receive a consistent, global solution wherever they do business.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: PreSales Solution Partner

Ref : 541763
Location: Lagos
Contract: Regular
Department: Sls and Mktg Emerging Markets

About the Role

• Pre Sales support for Africa Sales team across Network and other BU solutions to multinational customers
• Building solutions across multiple domains and solution blocks
• Customer facing engagement
• Internal engagement to Sales and central teams
• Build technical solutions and documentation
• Proposal generation
• Strong focus on governance and process
• Support of Order to Bill where required

About You

• Strong broad generalist skills
• Hands on Low Level Design
• Customer workshop facilitation
• Crisis management
• Working under pressure
• Experience working with and designing RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP routing protocols
• Reasonable commercial acumen
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skillsindependent self-starter
• Sense of urgency
• Structured and attention to detail
• “can do”, customer-focused attitude
• Team Player
• Good Presentation skills
• Ability to engage customers, understand issues and pain points in their ICT environment and map these to solution from Orange Business Services
• Able to work independently and with rigour and speed
• Creative and can take initiative and be pro active
• Able to manage Technical bid workstreams and contribute to large bid programs
• Ability to write compelling technical documentation

Additional Information
Training:

• Cisco CCNP
• TOGAF/ ITIL advantageous
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Telecommunications or IT field.
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• French advantageous

Experience:

•  5 - 10 years experience
• Previous experience in the Pre Sales and Networking area
• Strong generalist understanding of Microsoft, Fortinet and other industry vendors
• Strong understanding on MPLS and building multinational Network Solution
• VoIP understanding
• Design, Build and Manage experience
• Understanding of ITIL and operational support requirements for Enterprise customers
• Understanding of the Africa Telecoms and regulatory environment.
• Understanding of the Africa competitive landscape for Enterprise Telco services