Sales Engineer / Consultant

Technical sales engineers use their technical

knowledge along with sales skills to provide advice and support on

a range of products, for which a certain level of expertise is

needed. You work close together with sales and engineering and

assist colleagues with bids and tenders for new clients from a

technical perspective, working on proof of concept deployments and

answering questions. You like to work independently and self

responsible on dedicated projects but like to also to exchange your

knowledge with your colleagues. Tasks persuading clients that a

product or service best satisfies their needs in terms of quality,

price and delivery working closely together with sales on customer

projects calculating client quotations providing pre-sales

technical assistance and product education working on after-sales

support services and providing technical backup as required

arranging and carrying out product training support POC and Pilots

at the customers together with support and engineering supporting

sales and marketing activities by attending trade shows,

conferences and other marketing events making technical

presentations and demonstrating how a product meets client needs

liaising with other members of the sales team and other technical

experts helping in the design of custom-made products providing

training and producing support material for other members of the

sales team Requirements Solid technical background for

infrastructure set-ups in medium and large organizations Sales

skills Sound judgement and good business sense Organizational

skills Teamworking capabilities Analytical and problem-solving

skills Independence and self-reliance. Problem solving Product

knowledge around open source technology General programming skills

in PHP, HTML, CSS Benefits A distributed, open team with a passion

for working on and within the open source community Promoting and

selling a product which pushes the boundaries of technology and

with a global user and contributor community A competitive salary

Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance Time for personal

growth and education We are looking for somebody with ambition and

drive who would like to grow and learn. That means that if you

don’t fulfill the requirements yet but want to learn,

apply!