Company Description
IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really mattersat the Moment of Service.
At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.
If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.
Job Description
Presales Manager is a player/coach role. It specialisesin new sales and customer development and has an important role in the sales phase to create business opportunities from a solution-oriented perspective and show the customers how IFS products will fulfil their functional needs and requirement and deliver the value expected from the investment. They are accountable for the preparation of presentations and demonstrations and should work to build trusting relationships within both IFS and the clients with whom they engage.
The Presales Manager sits on the Market Unit Leadership team and drives presales activity in the market unit, ensuring a smooth distribution of workload and prioritisation across the team.
- Provide presales design support for both new and existing requiring IFS Services and Solutions. Maintain end-to-end solution integrity across the products sold to customer.
- Ability to interface with customers as required in support of sales closure.
- Expected to act in a coaching role and provide support to less experiences team members and partners.
- Ensure the successful delivery of Proof of Concepts is tied to the customers success criteria and business initiatives
- Maintain a high degree of knowledge of specific IFS products and services including roadmaps and occasional liaison with Product Management.
- Commit to self-learning and regular product training.
- Working with the sales organization to address technical needs for the customers
- Use the knowledge and/or the understanding of the major customers requirement to provide and/or propose commercially and viable product/solution improvement feedbacks
Qualifications
This role is open to individuals progressing internally at IFS with a positive work history and aptitude to take on a player coach position