Global Pre-Sales Specialist Mid-Level
Location: Hyderabad, India
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open Positions: 3-4
Reporting to: Head of Pre-Sales and Head of Operations ANZ
Regional Coverage: India, Middle East, Americas, Europe, Australia & New Zealand
Working Hours: Flexibility required to support customers and internal teams across multiple global time zones.
1.1 About the Role
We are looking for 3-4 dynamic and customer-focused Pre-Sales Specialists to strengthen our global Pre-Sales team.
Based in Hyderabad, the team will support business opportunities across multiple regions, including India, the Middle East, Americas, Europe, and Australia & New Zealand. Regional responsibilities may be allocated based on business demand, customer requirements, time-zone coverage, and individual strengths.
The role combines Pre-Sales, solution consulting, customer engagement, proposal support, and sales coordination. The successful candidates will work closely with regional sales and operations teams, global Pre-Sales, product teams, and delivery teams to progress opportunities from initial customer engagement through solutioning, demonstrations, proposals, PoCs, and handover to delivery.
1.2 Key Responsibilities
1.2.1 Pre-Sales & Solution Support
- Participate in customer discovery and requirements-gathering sessions.
- Understand customer business challenges and translate them into relevant solution use cases.
- Support solution mapping and solution design in collaboration with Pre-Sales, Product, and Delivery teams.
- Prepare and deliver product presentations and demonstrations.
- Tailor demonstrations and solution scenarios to customer requirements and industry use cases.
- Support technical and functional discussions with business and technical stakeholders.
1.2.2 Lead & Opportunity Support
- Support regional sales teams in progressing qualified opportunities.
- Coordinate customer meetings, demonstrations, workshops, and follow-up activities.
- Maintain timely and accurate opportunity information in CRM and pipeline tracking systems.
- Follow up on actions arising from customer meetings, demonstrations, events, and campaigns.
- Work with sales teams to maintain momentum across active opportunities.
1.2.3 Proposal, RFI & RFP Support
- Support preparation of RFI, RFP and RFQ responses.
- Contribute to proposals, statements of scope, solution documentation, and presentations.
- Coordinate inputs from Product, Technical, Delivery, Commercial, and other internal teams.
- Ensure responses clearly articulate the proposed solution, value proposition, scope, assumptions, and differentiators.
1.2.4 Customer Engagement
- Act as a professional customer-facing representative of PiLog.
- Engage effectively with business stakeholders, technical teams, enterprise architects, partners, and customer leadership.
- Communicate complex solution concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Support customer workshops and solution discussions across different industries and regions.
1.2.5 Demo, PoC & Assessment Support
- Prepare demonstration environments and scenarios.
- Coordinate sample customer data and demonstration requirements.
- Support execution of Proofs of Concept (PoCs), pilots, and data assessments.
- Work with technical and functional teams to validate customer requirements and solution feasibility.
- Capture outcomes and support definition of next steps following demonstrations and PoCs.
1.2.6 Coordination with Delivery & Product Teams
- Work closely with Delivery teams to validate solution feasibility, scope, effort, and assumptions.
- Gather technical and functional inputs required for proposals and demonstrations.
- Coordinate with Product teams where customer requirements require additional clarification.
- Support smooth handover of successful opportunities from Pre-Sales to Delivery.
1.2.7 Global Collaboration
- Work closely with regional Sales and Operations teams across India, Middle East, Americas, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
- Collaborate with global Pre-Sales, Product, Delivery, Marketing, and Commercial teams.
- Support webinars, industry events, customer workshops, and marketing campaigns where required.
- Share knowledge, demo assets, use cases, and lessons learned across the global Pre-Sales team.
1.3 Required Skills & Experience
1.3.1 Experience
- Approximately 4-7 years of relevant experience in Pre-Sales, Solution Consulting, Solution Support, Technical Sales, or a related B2B enterprise software role.
- Experience working with enterprise customers and cross-functional teams.
- Experience supporting international customers or geographically distributed teams is preferred.
1.3.1 Core Skills
- Strong English communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Confident presentation and customer engagement skills.
- Ability to understand customer requirements and translate them into solution scenarios.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Strong presentation, proposal-writing, and documentation skills.
- Comfortable preparing professional PowerPoint presentations, Excel-based analysis, and customer-facing materials.
1.3.2 Technical & Business Understanding
Exposure to one or more of the following would be advantageous:
- Enterprise software and SaaS solutions.
- SAP ecosystem