Vodafone, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has mobile operations in 26 countries (partnering with mobile networks in 55 more) and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets, serving 446 million mobile customers and 12 million fixed broadband customers around the world. Vodafone is strongly committed to invest in the Turkish Market, where the company has been operating with great success since 2006.
We are seeking a Presales Senior Associate Manager - Data Center with the will and ambition to work in high performing Vodafone Team responsible for Leading Digital Transformation in Turkey, reporting Fixed & Cloud & VAS Presales Manager of Vodafone Turkey.
The accountabilities of this role are:
This role is responsible for acting as a design authority to sales and operational teams to ensure technical design and customer needs/expectations so that VF Turkiye achieves targets within the all sales segments
- Contribute to VF Sales and Marketing strategies for whole sales segments (Corporate Customers) to ensure VF Turkiye realizes its ambitions for the short-mid and long term.
- Work with VAS&Cloud Product Management and Marketing to help define/refine sales messages and ensure sales packages are developed and messages communicated to sales team.
- Work with Account Managers to lead genarate for related Corporate Sagments.
- Identify and address customers critical technical issues (escalations) and non-technical issues, and coordinate necessary support activities.
- Position requires broad and deep knowledge of hardware and software products within the following technology areas and manufacturers. Multi-vendor expertise and experience is highly desired, particularly with two or more of the OEMs listed within each of the following technical areas:
Servers and Converged Infrastructure platforms (Cisco, Dell, HP, Oracle, IBM/Lenovo)
Storage (Hitachi, EMC, HP 3PAR, NetApp)
Data Protection & Archival (Commvault, Dell, EMC, HP, Symantec, Veeam)
Virtualization (VMware, Microsoft, Citrix)
Cloud Orchestration (VMware, Microsoft, OpenStack, others)
Creating IT Architecture model that provides a timely response to strategic business requirements of customers.
- Making R&D activities and running PoCs to choose the best technologies that is cost-effective, accordance with the standards.
- Providing configuration management based on COBIT Standarts.
- Generating IT Development Strategies for customers that will meet their business requirements in terms of current architecture structure and future plans.
- Participating to key vendor events, trainings and organizations to follow the technology trends