Presales Solutions Architect

NTT DATA Business Solutions; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA Business Solutions in Hyderabad, India is seeking an entry-level Presales Associate to support sales, solution teams, and customer engagements. You will gather requirements, assist in proposals, and help develop presentations and sales-support materials to showcase competitive solutions.

You will collaborate with sales, delivery teams, product specialists, and commercial teams to translate customer needs into relevant solutions and ensure timely, well-structured responses and

Responsibilities

• Customer Requirement Analysis: understand business requirements and review RFP/RFI documents.
• Proposal and Bid Support: prepare technical and commercial proposals with inputs from multiple teams.
• Solution Development Support: document solution scope, timelines, and dependencies.
• Presentation and Demonstration Support: create presentations and coordinate demos.
• Sales Support and Opportunity Management: assist in qualification, update CRM, trackers.
• Knowledge Management: maintain repository of proposals, case studies, content.

Job description

The Presales Associate will support the sales and solution teams in understanding customer requirements, preparing proposals, coordinating solution inputs, and developing presentations and other sales-support materials.

This is an entry-level role suitable for candidates who are interested in technology, consulting, business analysis, and customer engagement. The successful candidate will work closely with sales, technical consultants, delivery teams, product specialists, and commercial teams to support the development of relevant and competitive solutions for prospective customers.

Notice Period - Immediate to 45 days only.

Responsibilities

1. Customer Requirement Analysis:

Assist in understanding customer business requirements, challenges, and expected outcomes. Review Requests for Proposal, Requests for Information, and other customer documents.

Identify key requirements, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, and response deadlines.

Support the preparation of clarification questions for customers.

Document customer requirements in a structured format.

2. Proposal and Bid Support:

Support the preparation of technical and commercial proposals.

Coordinate with solution architects, delivery teams, finance, legal, and sales teams to collect proposal inputs.

Maintain proposal templates, case studies, company profiles, and supporting documents.

Ensure that proposal responses are complete, consistent, professionally formatted, and submitted within the required timeline.

Assist in maintaining version control and approval records for proposals.

3. Solution Development Support:

Work with technical and functional experts to understand the proposed solution.

Assist in documenting solution scope, implementation approach, project timelines, resource requirements, assumptions, exclusions, and dependencies.

Support the development of high-level solution diagrams, process flows, and delivery models.

Conduct basic research on relevant technologies, products, industry trends, and competitor offerings.

Help align the proposed solution with customer requirements and business objectives.

4. Presentation and Demonstration Support:

Prepare customer-facing presentations, solution overviews, and executive summaries.

Assist solution consultants in preparing product demonstrations, workshops, and proof-of-concept sessions.

Coordinate demonstration schedules, materials, access requirements, and follow-up actions.

Participate in customer meetings and document key discussion points and action items.

5. Sales Support and Opportunity Management:

Support the sales team during opportunity qualification and proposal development.

Update opportunity-related information in the company’s CRM or sales management system.

Maintain trackers for opportunities, proposals, deadlines, approvals, and customer responses.

Assist in preparing internal deal review and management approval presentations.

Support handover of won opportunities from sales and presales teams to delivery teams.

6. Knowledge Management:

Maintain a central repository of proposals, solution documents, case studies, credentials, resumes, and reusable content.

Capture lessons learned and reusable information from completed proposals.

Help update industry-specific and technology-specific presentation materials.

Follow company standards for document quality, branding, confidentiality, and information security.