Presales Manager MEA

Job description / Role

Presales Manager Middle East and Africa

Client, an organisation that delivers an innovative digital commerce solution that enables always-on customer engagement, is searching for a MEA Presales Manager to join their team in UAE.

The Presales Manager MEA will work within the global presales team reporting into the VP Presales.

The role is hands-on supporting the sales team across the Middle East & Africa with frequent travel across the region (approximately 30-50%)

Requirements

• Have 12+ years’ experience in an OSS/BSS environment either with an operator or product vendor.
• They will have 6+ years’ experience successfully interacting in a collaborative way with both sales, marketing and product organizations.
• They will have 6+years’ experience working in a competitive vendor environment responsible for responding to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
• They will have excellent expertise in subscriber convergent charging models, knowledge of OSS network standards such as 3GPP and protocols such as Diameter & CAMEL and how OSS network systems interact with the BSS.
• Knowledge of BSS architectures including CRM, self-care, order management, charging, billing, analytics etc.
• Experience of the TMForum framework and shared data model
• Significant knowledge of Linux and ability to create custom scripts using product API’s (REST / Java) and Linux scripting languages.
• Knowledge of operational processes for high availability and geographic redundancy.
• Ability to be able to understand and convey hardware specifications covering blade server technology, networking & load balancing
• Ability to create test scenarios demonstrating the functional and non-functional capabilities.
• Ability to translate business scenarios into technical workflows
• Ability to coordinate and complete RFx responses for new projects
• Can define the solution architecture covering required capabilities and key integration points
• Ability to represent and articulate the organisations solution to prospects & customers at both a technical (CTO/CIO) & business (CMO) level.

About the Company

RP International is the leading specialist recruitment consultancy in the established and emerging telecoms markets.

From our hubs covering the Americas, Europe the CIS, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific we have partnered with operators, vendors, systems integrators and consultancies in more than a hundred countries, giving us an in-depth understanding Of cultural sensitivities, local business practices and hiring requirements.

Our clients and candidates benefit from the long-term perspective and breadth of knowledge that comes from working with an industry partner.

From our beginnings providing telecoms expertise into deregulating markets, we have developed our range of services to supply executive search, contingent, contract and launch and transformation resource solutions across the industry.

Our historic success in cross-border search assignments connects our clients to a global network of industry talent.

We identify the best available candidates on a local, regional and international basis.