Pre-sales Consultant - Hungerford, United Kingdom - KERRIDGE COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS CORP

KERRIDGE COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS CORP

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Hungerford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

"At KCS we've introduced a flexible hybrid work policy, where employees spend three days in the office and two days working from home. This approach promotes a balanced work environment that combines office collaboration with the comfort and convenience of remote work."_

A private equity backed organisation delivering enviable growth in its defined sector in the UK and globally.

Part of a global business with operating divisions in Netherlands, South Africa, USA, Australia and Kenya as well as the UK and Ireland.

Due to continued growth in our level of sales activity, a vacancy exists within our Presales Department for a Presales Consultant

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake business discovery sessions, to gain a thorough understanding of business requirements, and documenting their outcome
Presales is a customer facing role, supporting the UK New Business and Account Management teams
Building and presenting software presentations that demonstrate to our customers that our solutions can meet and exceed their requirements and provide business benefit
Ensuring that the latest developments are incorporated into our demonstration and working closely with the product teams to adopt new features as well as set up and document these on the demonstration systems
Work with Marketing to create and deliver webinars and customer conference presentations
Aiding in the completion of Bid documentation such as RFI/RFP
Completion of Project Estimations and Statements of Work for contract completion
Maintaining and enhancing the core demonstration data sets in order to ensure that our systems best represents a live trading environment.
Working closely with our Professional Services Group (PSG), Support and Development teams to develop customer propositions, you will ensure that the business understands the real customer requirements and will work closely to ensure that the best available solutions, some of which may be latest developments, are implemented to meet their need.
Ensuring that all presales requirements, information gathered, and demonstrations are documented to provide a handover to PSG and the rest of the business

Key Requirements:

Essential:

The ability to understand and assimilate business process and requirements and convert these to presentations & demonstration to show business benefit to the customer and why they should select KCS as a partner
Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills
Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with diverse groups of individuals from CEO to warehouse operative, and maintain an effective working relationship within a team environment
Ability to work under pressure, be able to "think on your feet" to formulate solutions and to work to deadlines
Be adaptable, work conscientiously and use own initiative and also work as part of the presales and sales teams

Desirable:

A good working knowledge of the K8 and its supporting software
Knowledge and experience of KCS Distributive trade core markets
Previous presales experience
This role will involve UKI travel and therefore a valid UK driving licence is essential.

Company Info
Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is the market leader in developing and delivering fully integrated business management solutions for distributors, suppliers, resellers, wholesalers and merchants

Our mission is simple:

to design, implement and support high performance systems that enable our customers to source effectively, stock efficiently, sell profitably and service competitively.

Equal Opportunities
KCS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

If you have a disability or special need that requires us to adjust the recruiting process please do advise us when contacted.

To all recruitment agencies: KCS does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers site or direct to KCS employee. KCS is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes._