Job ID

US0704

Position

Pre and post Sales Support

Location

Chicago, USA

Type

Permanent

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Description

 

To provide technical pre and post sales support for sale of Data Mining / Data Warehouse database technology. 3 positions open.

These positions are to be based in the newly formed US Headquarters of a European success story. This is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor!

The successful candidates will work closely with the sales team and presales peers through full sales cycle from prospecting through qualification, including; vision creation, proof of concepts, solution engineering, and proposition creation into delivery, set-up and initial deployment. The role is: fast-paced, customer facing, technical and involves travel across the US and to the UK for training.

Qualifications:


Candidate Attributes:

Required:
Excellent interpersonal skills – Presales technical presentations and demonstrations
Solid writing skills - Ability to respond to RFI/RFQ/RFP etc.
Senior level experience with relational database technologies
Strong SQL knowledge and implementation skills
Practical Unix/Linux end-user and administrator skills
Experience working with and/or for: Teradata, DB2, Netezza, Datallegro, Greenplum preferred

Desirable:
Previously worked in technical presales environment for a Business Intelligence company
Has business skills & domain knowledge in retail, financial services or telecommunications
Finds data and information discovery interesting - investigative mind
Flexible and creative approach to technical and data solutions
Data warehouse implementation experience
ETL implementation experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

Other:

 
Analytical experience - Data mining, statistics or modeling in SAS, SPSS, etc.
Project management experience
Data modeling experience
Systems delivery and implementation experience