Sales Engineer

Marga Consulting LLC; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Marga Consulting LLC is seeking a Sales Engineer to support the Sales team with pre-sales technical expertise and value-driven presentations in the Dallas area.

You will partner with Account Managers and the Regional Director to identify customer needs, develop technical strategies, and win opportunities. Travel 40-50% is expected, with strong presentation and competitive differentiation skills to close deals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/Software Eng is required.
• Minimum 10 years IT experience and 7 years in pre-sales/engineering roles.
• Proven ability to understand customer challenges and propose solutions.
• Strong pre-sales track record and ability to work with sales teams.
• Experience with Linux/Windows environments and networking concepts.
• Region-specific cultural/business experience is critical.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Account Managers and Regional Director to develop business and technical strategies.
• Assess prospect needs and help craft strategies to win business.
• Support sales teams in tactical decisions and competitive positioning.
• Deliver PoCs and conduct on-site or remote product demonstrations.
• Lead whiteboard sessions and present solutions to customers, resellers, and integrators.
• Travel within territory 40-50% with a laptop.

Skills

Pre-sales experience

Presentation skills

Sales strategy contribution

Customer requirements gathering

Networking background

Linux/Windows knowledge

Travel availability

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or Software Eng or equivalent

Tools

WebEx

Meeting Place

Sniffer tools

nGenius

Job description

The role of the Sales Engineer is to assist the Sales team in reaching the revenue goal by providing quality pre-sales technical support and presentations focused on articulating value to the prospective buyer. Represent client's

Systems as the product solution specialist and work to ensure the best possible technical solution with the information provided. Specialization designated by a defined strategic initiative as named by Systems.

These areas will include verticals such as System Integrators, Service Providers, and Channel Partners.

This individual will report to the Regional Director and in some cases the Area Vice President and will be required to have significant interaction and consultation with customers and must have a solid understanding of the sales

cycle and working with the Sales teams throughout the process.

Sales Engineers and their Account Managers will be placed in situations to uncover and develop new areas of business and relationships for client's Systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• The Sales Engineer must be able to work closely with the Account Manager(s) and Regional Director to develop business and technical strategies that can help ensure the best chance to win business.
• Investigate the prospect’s needs and assist in developing a strategy to win business
• Assist the Sales Teams in making tactical decisions regarding the sale.
• Identify compelling events or specific business problems and offer attractive solutions to the client.
• Provide specialized technical support to the prospect/customer using ‘best practices’
• techniques along with other available resources provided to the Sales Engineering group.
• Account responsibility for all lead technical activities. This includes building relationships across customers IT silos to document their infrastructure and understand their challenges and seek out potential projects.
• The Sales Engineer will directly assist Sales teams in achieving financial targets via the sales process and assisting sales in accurately assessing and forecasting opportunities.
• Must be able to create and deliver PoCs, manage competitive Bakeoffs, prepare for and run initial and subsequent onsite presentations or host remote presentations using WebEx or Meeting Place, ability to
• perform canned or live product demonstrations of system capabilities and benefits for customer meeting, show ability to lead whiteboard discussions, etc., to best present solutions in the best possible light for customers, resellers, integrators, etc.
• Work with users on a regular basis, explore scenarios in which the system is being used and discover new upsell opportunities by understanding the user’s needs.
• Adapt to new situations and opportunities that may include multiple Integrators on a common customer network
• Travel required within the assigned territory and within the Region estimated at 40 - 50% within the territory, carrying a laptop.
• Strong ability to differentiate the products from competitors – an expert in competitor’s product and how to differentiate against them
• Very strong presentation skills – Charismatic presenter that can present compelling views of our products against the customer needs
• Top level technical skills
• Shows the initiative to research the recent market trends and presents how our solution can help customers in these new areas
• Shows leadership skills in terms of contributing to the sales strategy from a solution requirements standpoint – strong contributor to the sales strategy.
• Develops own relationships in key accounts and is a strong contributor to overall account relationships
• Makes contributions to new product direction through making suggestions to the EBO/SBO

Basic Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in IT and/or 7 years as a pre-sales engineer, Network Engineer, Application Engineer or in a pre-sales technical support role.
• This person must have experience and demonstrated working with customers to understand their technical challenges and requirements and to have effectively proposed desired solutions.
• Proven pre-sales record of success and achievement for themselves and their team.
• Strong Networking and Application background desired along with a working knowledge of Linux/Windows operating systems.
• Cultural familiarity with and experience in doing business within the Region is critical.
• The individual must also possess technical skills that relate to these areas:

• Cisco routing, switching, gateways and applications(must)
• Various topologies, LAN, WAN (MPLS, Frame, ATM)
• Trend analysis concepts
• Security concepts
• Network infrastructure concepts
• Network General (Sniffer) knowledge
• Network performance management
• Fault/Alert management concepts
• nGenius product experience is an advantage