Presales Team Lead - Cloud
Location
Berkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Salary upto £75,000 + Commission Plan
- Supported training and development to help you be the best you can be
- Holiday Trading Scheme - buy or sell part of your annual leave allowance
- Flexible and Hybrid working (3 days office/2 days home)
- Day off on your birthday
- Enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption leave
- Flexible Benefits scheme (there a whole list of stuff in here including private health-care, gym memberships, retail discounts… we could go on, but you'll want to know what you will be doing...)
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic individual to join our organisation as a Presales Team Lead. In this player/manager role (70/30% split, managing vs doing), you will be responsible for leading a team of skilled cloud solutions architects and driving the successful delivery of cloud-based solutions to our clients. You will play a crucial role in contributing to and overseeing the team responsible for architectural design of cloud solutions, ensuring nothing gets in their way in delivering their best work.
Objectives:
- Manage and lead a team of cloud solutions architects, providing guidance as an escalation point, providing support, removing blockers, and maximising their potential.
- Cultivating a positive team environment that produces exceptional work.
- Tracking and managing team performance, provide constructive feedback through one-to-one sessions, absence planning, mapping development and learning objectives, and organising associated training.
- Effectively manage team resource, scheduling, and prioritise work requests.
- Assigning and monitoring the delivery of pre-sales pricing and post-sale design work.
- Acting as a quality gate in the approval of completed proposals and contracts.
- Acting as intermediary between the team and stakeholders within the business such as Sales, Project Management and Build.
- Develop structured reporting to track team performance, availability, and workload progress.
- Engage in Design work and RFPs between other responsibilities.
- Have a Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field would be beneficial, but not a requirement.
- Have solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and services, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Have proven experience (3+ years) in a managerial and/or pre-sales role, leading a team of technical professionals.
- Possess excellent people management, leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- Have strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities, with a focus on delivering team objectives to the best of your ability.
- Are calm under pressure, even-tempered when challenged, and able to mediate competing priorities and stakeholders.
At iomart we’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We also recognise your experience may not be perfectly aligned to all the criteria in the job ad. If you like the sound of this role, even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. You might just be the right fit for this or other roles.
iomart is a cloud computing and IT managed services business providing hybrid cloud infrastructure, network connectivity, security and digital workplace capability. Now, that’s quite a mouthful, but our mission is simple: to make our customers businesses unstoppable by enabling them to connect, secure and scale anywhere, anytime.
- We’re a tech start-up success story.
- Starting out in 1998, we’ve grown up a bit and now turnover more than £100m and we have close to 500 employees
- We’re ambitious, in a great position to grow and our executive team are all super excited about driving the business forward.
- We’re headquartered in Glasgow with locations across the UK.
Please click apply if you like the sound of this. If you do not have an up to date CV or want to have a chat about the role first please feel free to contact me on [email protected]
We’re an equal opportunities employer and want our vacancies to be available to all, so if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the process then just let us know.
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£75k per annum
