About M247

We’re so proud of the people and team at M247; our success and growth are a real joint effort. The key to our amazing team is simple – we focus on recruiting the best person for the job. We then create opportunities and equip you with the skills you need to build a successful career.

Our vision is for M247 to be the digital growth and innovation partner of choice. Underpinned by our heritage in connectivity and unified communications (UC) and advanced by our passion for cloud and application-based innovation, we enable our customers to grow and compete in the digital era.

Every single person at M247 has a part to play in our future success, so we look forward to your application and hopefully welcoming you into our team!

Pre-Sales Solutions Architect

Manchester (with hybrid working)

Are you an ambitious and talented Pre-Sales professional, who’d relish the opportunity to work for a progressive, market-leading technology solutions business? If so, then read on…

Your role

In this exciting Pre-Sales Solutions Architect opportunity, you’ll be a technologist who helps ensure our customers’ businesses thrive whilst M247 become their trusted IT business partner of choice through our vision, thought leadership, strategy and sound technology advice.

As the ideal candidate, you’ll be an accomplished Pre-Sales Solutions Architect or similar professional, who’s passionate about technology, innovation and exceeding customer expectations, whilst being able to demonstrate a proven track record of success and business growth.

What you’ll do:

• You’ll collaborate with sales colleagues and customers from initial contact, ideation and design of solutions, through to implementation with our expert engineers and consultants, to ensure the end to end customer journey is best in class and showcases our full solutions portfolio.
• You’ll partner with the Sales Team to run an M247 franchise, whilst maximising all opportunities through understanding and capturing our customer's technology requirements, whilst aligning them to business objectives and ambitions.
• You’ll provide strategic vision and thought leadership, demonstrating and articulating the benefits of future, emerging and disruptive technology.
• You’ll be project focused, from initial opportunity scoping, high-level design attaining trusted technology advisor status for our customers.
• You’ll produce customer-facing high-level designs and support the sales team in presenting proposed solutions, both written and verbal, including demonstrations and proof of concepts.
• You’ll occasionally be required to be hands-on with customer solutions during delivery or support phases to ensure a high-standard customer experience.
• You will understand the customer sales cycle and sales qualification processes.

Your package and perks

• £60,000 - £65,000 (negotable) basic salary.
• £90,000 - 97,500 on target earnings.
• M247 iPhone and performance laptop.
• Healthcare Cash Plan and PERKS.
• Company Life Assurance scheme offering 3 times annual salary upon death in service.
• Auto-Enrolment Pension with 3% Employer Contribution.
• Access to payable gym classes.
• Free Car Parking (available 24/7 limited spaces).
• Hybrid office and remote working.
• Flexible working accommodated where possible.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay.
• 24 days holiday, plus 8 days bank holidays an extra day to use on your birthday.
• Holiday purchasing scheme (up to 5 additional days).
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Company sick pay.
• Refer a Friend Scheme – up to £1,000 reward for successful recommendation.

Your skills and experience

Should have

• Proven as a Pre-Sales Solutions Architect or similar, with UC&C Primary Specialism (MS Teams, Contact Center, SIP, SBC, Omnichannel).
• Understanding of cloud technologies, focused around Microsoft.
• Solid grounding in networking, LAN/WAN technologies including SDWAN.
• Business and commercial acumen, with an understanding of customer sales cycles and accurate analytics and reporting.
• Ability to ask probing questions and identify customer objectives and obstacles to understand their full requirement.
• Ability to solve problems, work well under pressure and out of your day-to-day comfort zone.

Nice to have

• Worked for an IT service provider (ISP, MSP, integrator etc) or equivalent.
• Understanding of Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, number porting, call recording, SIP trunking and omnichannel contact centre solutions.
• The design and proposal of medium to large scale VoIP architectures, including the migration of legacy systems to modern architectures.
• Awareness of security posture and cyber risks.
• Understanding of AudioCodes SBCs.
• Evolve IP / Broadsoft (Cisco) solutions.
• ipCortex / Asterisk.
• Core networking understanding – CCNA or equivalent.

What next?

Our established, expanding and exciting values-led business is bustling with diversity, talent and experience.

If you’re looking to develop your career in sales as a Pre-Sales Solutions Architect, add value to our team and work with the latest cutting-edge technology we want to hear from you.

Why not join us?

All applicants, regardless of gender, ethnic background, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status or any other factor will be treated equally and fairly in the application process.

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