Business Development Manager - IT Solutions - SME...

A privately owned organisation, my client provides a wide range of office technology solutions and have experienced phenomenal growth - now boasting an annual group turnover in excess of £30million. A committment to high quality design, installation and maintenance ensures they have developed lasting partnerships with clients and suppliers alike. With regional offices across the UK, they offer the full resources of a major national organisation delivered through local account and engineering experts. As independent resellers they are proud to be Microsoft Gold, Mitel Premier, Aastra Gold Plus, Cisco Select and HP Gold Preferred Partners

Experience of selling IT support services - vital

• Experience of selling into SME Market Space of between 10 and 150 Users
• Experience of designing solutions based on Microsoft Windows 2008 Server and Small Business Server 2008
• Experience of Email solutions based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2003
• Experience of Network design and Local Area Networks including switching and routing
• Experience of hardware specification including servers, storage and connectivity
• Experience of business requirements for IT solution, responsibility for designing solution based on client requirements, specifying hardware, software and professional services
• Exposure to Virtualisation technologies

Nice to have:

• Experience of selling into 150-250 user marketplace
• Experience of Storage Area Network (SAN) technology
• Experience of Hewlett Packard Proliant and Storageworks
• Experience of VMWare/Virtualisation technologies and solutions

Fundamentally my client is looking for a proven salesperson into the SME infrastructure market and IT support services and not programming, development or other overly technical discipline. Ideally you will have a good technical grasp of how things plug together and why and be able to design (with assistance) solutions which can be sold to the customer as a total solution to their technology outsourcing.

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