Cisco Presales Solutions Architect Job - Full-time / Part-time

Cisco Solutions Architect needed for a direct hire opportunity with Yoh's client located in New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Washington DC.

Top Skills You Should Possess:

- Strong Pre-sales background
- Experience working in services delivery and IT consulting
- Unified Communications or Core Networking (Routing and Switching)

What You'll Be Doing:

- Work with account executives to drive new Cisco solutions and services opportunities.
- Participate in customer meetings to determine business and technical requirements that will be used in developing Cisco solutions or solution alternatives that map within our capabilities.
- Lead customer technical sessions, both white board and PowerPoint, around potential and proposed Cisco solutions.
- Design and deliver technical design solutions, including preparation of Bill of Materials (BOM), writing the services proposal content (Statements of Work), and pricing for customer projects.
- Partner with internal resources to develop and manage deals that cross between multiple technology solutions.
- Obtain sales and technical certifications around various Cisco solutions as required.
- Coach and mentor sales team members including organizing and leading sales training sessions around various Cisco Unified Communications technologies.
- Elevate the level of knowledge within the sales team around Cisco Unified Communications technologies, sales techniques and strategies for the assigned sales territory.
- Develop and maintain relationships for Cisco and Cisco-related technologies. Act as primary contact for marketing and training events. Regularly engage the local teams for assistance, support and opportunity mapping as necessary.
- Grow and achieve Services and Cisco sales targets in assigned region.
- Accountable for tracking opportunities and maintaining a pipeline in CRM

What You Need to Bring to the Table:

- Pre-Sales experience is required
- Five to ten (5 - 10) years related experience is required
- Solid understanding of MS - Excel, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint for creating Customer deliverables.
- Cisco specific specialist certifications (i.e. Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist, Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric Design Specialist, etc.)
- Knowledge of software and/or hardware, testing and implementation
- Excellent communication skills and the proven ability to interact with senior-level technical and business decision-makers as a strategic advisor
- Ability to work as a solid member and leader of a team
- Must be a self-starter and have ability to manage expectations with a sales team and with customers
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- A positive attitude and desire to build a business within a business
- Ability to travel up to 30%
- BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent experienceAbility to travel up to 50%

Preferred Qualifications:

- Cisco Certified Network Professional Voice (CCNP Voice)
- CCIE Voice
- Cisco Commerce Workspace
- Cisco networking and wireless technologies
- Experience working with Microsoft Lync
- VMware

What's In It For You?

- Opportunity to work for a growing cutting-edge technology company in a very high-impact role.

What Are You Waiting For? Apply Now!

Recruiter: Brandy Jacqueline Smith

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TAX TERM: FULLTIME

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Branch: IT & Telecom