Pre-sales Engineer

Published on August 05, 2008 - Comments
Calgary and Montreal

Search Managed by The Laudi Group

Location
Calgary and Montreal

About the Company
Whether it’s by mashing satellite maps to retail hot spots, providing granular, authenticated postal code demographics, or visualizing location-based information, this organization helps clients get closer to their customers.

Founded in 1994, this growing company of 60+ employees serves Global 2000 companies in the Telco, CPG and government sectors.

The Opportunity
Working with Account Managers, the Pre-sales Engineer will analyze customer requirements for designing tailored location intelligence solutions.

  • Owns the technical validation phase of the sales cycle and being accountable for the delivery of the designed solution.
  • Understand business value and build ROI analysis as appropriate.
  • Responding to solution and technical sections of RFIs and RFPs.
  • Creating and delivering demonstrations, presentations and/or proof of concepts of the proposed solution.
  • Act as Technical Account Manager on a shortlist of critical clients
  • Knowledge transfer to Business and Technology partners.
  • In addition, the Presales Engineer will convey customer product feedback to company’s product management and R&D team.
  • Must be willing to travel

Who Should Apply
Candidates should be comfortable in translating clients’ business requirements into detailed proposals, presenting to both technical and non-technical managers, plus defining and agreeing final solutions.

  • Ability to lead Sales in identifying appropriate location intelligence solution.
  • Ability to work closely with various branches of the organization (Sales, Consultants, Product Managers, Marketing, R&D )
  • Strong ability to communicate and present complex technology solutions to customer’s project managers, marketing and operation teams.

A minimum of 6 years experience in the software of GIS industry is mandatory. Candidate should have working experience within a software company or a service provider. A candidate needs a broad understanding of technology concerns with considerable experience in the following domains:

  • Location Intelligence
  • GIS applications
  • Spatial Technology
  • Geomatics

Contact
To make an inquiry and/or to submit a resume, please contact: Heather Holmes

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