Solutions Engineer - CGEM UK

Engineer - Pre Sales and Product Management

Job Type: Professional

Job Id: 1436558

• Location: London, United Kingdom

Candidate must reside in or be willing to relocate to London, UK.

Meet the Team:

You will be in Global Enterprise Segment (GES) where we lead Cisco's top 500 strategic accounts. Our responsibility to Cisco’s business is great, and our responsibility to each other and our culture is greater. We have an unrelenting focus on our customers' success, we are Cisco's growth engine and shape the company’s future.

Your Impact:

We are looking for a Solutions Engineer (SE) with Enterprise Networking, Data Center, Collaboration, Security, Automation, and Cloud background. The SE role is a customer-focused technical sales professional who ensures that technical information and guidance is provided to the customer, delivering meaningful outcomes based on Cisco’s product and services portfolio. You will partner with your Account Managers in a pre-sales technical function, showcasing Cisco solutions, providing customer presentations, performing technical demonstrations, creating BoM’s, and running proof of concept activities.

The SE will perform the following functions:

1. Technology solution consultant to the customer and the Cisco account team.
2. Leverage an array of Cisco technology, services, and support specialists.
3. Collaborate closely with Account Manager on account planning activities.
4. Educate the customer on Cisco differentiation, creating demand.
5. Set brand preference to Cisco.
6. Align Cisco’s product and services capabilities to customers' business drivers.
7. Self-driven with a long history in the Networking field.
8. Strong background in large enterprises and/or large service provider IT accounts.
9. Minimum ten years of experience in the pre-sales engineering industry with a focus on Cisco's Enterprise Routing & Switching, Data Center, and Security solutions.
10. In-depth knowledge of large IT environments and applications.
11. Deep understanding and operational experience with a routed and switched data/voice network.
12. Strong business acumen and customer presence.
13. Experience and comfort conversing with network and telecommunications managers as well as customer lines of business on Data Center, Security, and Retail solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of computing industry related experience.
• Cisco product experience or relevant experience in key competitor offerings in technology area of emphasis required.
• Knowledge of Cisco's Solutions, networking fundamentals required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Typically requires BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent.

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