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 lead the digital transformation in the Turkish Market, where the company has been operating and investing heavily since 2006.
- University Degree with Electronic, Computer, Telecommunication or Mathematics Engineering
- At least 2 years Presales experience
- Minimum 5 years experience in ICT sector. Preferably in system integrator or vendor.
- Very good technical knowledge (Network, Security, Datacenter Technologies)
- Related Cisco , Microsoft , HP , Dell , Vmware , EMC , NetAPP , IBM , Checkpoint , Fortinet, Juniper certifications are plus.
- Military service completed (for male candidates)
- Very good command of English
- Excellent interpersonal relationship building skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to understand and capture business and technical requirements
- Driving license (B class)
We are seeking a Presales Senior Associate Manager with the will and ambition to work in high performing Vodafone Team responsible for Leading Digital Transformation in Turkey, reporting to Technical Product&Solutions Manager of Vodafone Turkey.
- Act as a design authority to VF Turkey’s enterprise customers’ cloud, colocation and other value added datacenter services.
- Ensure customer requirements are satisfied with a valid technical design using existing VF product lines or via partner ecosystem.
- 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 & Disaster Recovery & Replication (Commvault, Dell, EMC, HP, Symantec, Veeam)
-Virtualization (Vmware, Microsoft, Citrix)
-Cloud Orchestration (Vmware, Microsoft, OpenStack)
- Developing and managing partner ecosystem to deliver datacenter/application migration or management process.
- 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.
- Creating presentations and demonstrations that summarise the simple technical and business benefits of the solution .
- Work with Account Managers to generate lead for related Corporate Sagments.
- Contribute to VF Sales and Marketing strategies for corporate customer segment to ensure VF Turkey 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.
- Identify and address customers critical technical issues (escalations) and non-technical issues, and coordinate necessary support activities.