Senior Solutions Engineer
Description
Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer and more resilient digital world with an end-to-end full stack platform made for a hybrid, multi-cloud world. Leading enterprises use our unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. Our customers love our technology, but it's our caring employees that make Splunk stand out as an amazing career destination. No matter where in the world or what level of the organization, we approach our work with kindness. So bring your work experience, problem-solving skills and talent, of course, but also bring your joy, your passion and all the things that make you, you. Come help organizations be their best, while you reach new heights with a team that has your back.
As a Splunk Presales Consultant your primary responsibilities will be to:
Write and deliver excellent presentations; both business focused and technical presentations.
Demonstrate Splunk solutions to prospects, both onsite and remotely (via Webinars).
Attend and demonstrate Splunk solutions at field events, such as conferences and trade shows.
Respond to the functional and technical elements of tender documents, such as RFIs/RFPs.
Deliver and manage Proof of Concept (PoC) engagements to a success outcome.
Answer sophisticated technical and competitive questions plus address customer concerns to a successful outcome.
This role is to cover North Africa so you will be a French speaker and be based in Dubai
Develop relevant presales material, e.g. business cases/ROI, competitive insight documents, etc to persuade clients of the outstanding value, benefits and capabilities of Splunk’s solutions.
Work closely with the presales team and presales management to develop and continually improve working practices, best practices, presales processes, e.g. POC planning, etc.
Experience:
Domain knowledge and experience in any of the following areas:
Big Data (from a data management perspective),
Application Performance Management,
Security,
Business Intelligence/Web Analytics,
Operational Intelligence.
Build, follow and understand the business challenges/drivers, technology and market challenges of these types of organisations.
Ability to develop a strong understanding of each target client’s business, operations and industry trends, including understanding the strategic business and technology goals. Understand the client’s buying process.
Understands how Splunk’s solutions can provide capabilities and benefits in order to address the client’s business needs.
Ability to participate in account planning and planning meetings to identify new and follow-up solution, services and education opportunities.
Ability to develop and articulate business value/ROI case studies.
Presales experience working for Enterprise Software Vendor within UAE
A University degree or similar (preferably in computer science, software engineering or a similar field
Proactive and able to be manage activities in a self-sufficient manner.
Strong communication skills, including excellent verbal and written English language skills.
Strong knowledge of the sales process.
Self-motivated with a proven track record in technical software sales and knowledge of technology.
Ability to be organised and analytical, and must be able to eliminate sales obstacles using creative and adaptive approaches.
You should be comfortable working for a dynamic, technical organisation with a rapidly growing customer base.
Resilience and resourcefulness when solving sophisticated problems.
Excellent team skills.
Winning attitude.
Innovation is in our DNA – from technology to the way we do business.
Fluent in French. Arabic and English
Splunk, a Cisco company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Note:
Thank you for your interest in Splunk!