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Presales SE

Windsor, England, United Kingdom

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Overview

At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards it maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

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Ready for a sales career at NetApp? Explore the traits that can help you thrive.

  • Relationship expertise
  • Communicator
  • Results-driven
  • Strategic
  • Collaborative
  • Perceptive

Responsibilities

Windsor, England, United Kingdom Job category: EMEA Sales Job ID: 129762-en_US

About NetApp

NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people.

If this sounds like something you want to be part of, NetApp is the place for you. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. Of course, you won't be doing it alone. At NetApp, we're all about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond.

Job Summary

Our Solutions Engineering (Presales SE) Org’ is a driving force within NetApp UK sales account teams. The Presales SE significantly contributes to build and manage the strongest possible relationship with technical peers in key enterprise customer accounts. The SE proactively drives technical initiatives, oversees all pre-sales activity (presentations, demonstrations, sizing, etc) while ensuring the right expertise from a supporting cast of NetApp specialist is applied where needed.

Role
As the technical lead on focused accounts, you will develop the strategy to increase penetration into UK Enterprise customer targets across a mixture of verticals.

Influence and support the channel ‘route-to-market’ working with peer technologists at partner resellers & service-integrators hand-in-glove. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring holistic delivery to clients, by understanding customer’s needs, creating and articulating solutions to the buying centres. Regularly demonstrate the value of newer emerging technologies that supports customer transformation - whilst also strengthening existing business avenues.

Active to identify new sales opportunities that build pipeline, develop technical solutions to meet customers’ needs and requirements, work through the fiscal campaign to then develop, close and win on sustained pipeline.

Operates technical excellence and discipline at all times, tuning & refining solutions to maximize revenue as well as being the technical authority on final solution proposals. Constantly innovating and quick thinking on your feet to bring new ideas to the table across your accounts and develop customer centric objectives into NetApp rounded solutions.

Job Requirements

  • Excellent communications skills, presenting in either small round-table events or to larger audiences.
  • Strong understanding of modern technologies and competitive offerings in the marketplace, including (but not limited to); infrastructure data storage, virtualisation, cloud, cloud-native, finops, devops, AI, data-protection & recovery.
  • Able to build strong financial and commercial arguments for TCO and procurement methods.
  • Experience with target account selling, solution selling, and/or consultative sales techniques.
  • An aptitude for understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.
  • Ability to organically build firm business relationships with customers from technical buyer through to C-Level executives.
  • Developing ‘technical account plans’ that set out strategic initiatives to deliver customer outcomes as well driving significant sales pipeline.
  • Written and verbal excellence ensuring all customer literature & proposals are fine tuned.
  • Works well as part of a collaborative team, but is also independent to work in a close partnership with aligned sales-executive.
  • Ability to travel to customer & partner sites for face-to-face engagement(s) around London, UK and infrequent international travel.
  • Routine ability to coach, mentor and develop junior peers within the NetApp UK org’ and support their career objectives.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar related field.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in field pre-sales, technical consulting, professional services role.
  • Expertise & qualification in data storage and data management solutions, including backup and recovery, disaster recovery, cloud storage, and data analytics.
  • Prior Industry experience working for or with global data-storage vendor labels or service providers.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.

Why NetApp?

In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. No one knows how to elevate the world's biggest clouds like NetApp. We are data-driven and empowered to innovate. Trust, integrity, and teamwork all combine to make a difference for our customers, partners, and communities.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.


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Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

Volunteer time off

40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

Well-being

Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

Time away

Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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Equal Opportunity Employer*

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status and any other protected classification. We pledge to take every reasonable step to ensure that our applicants and employees are respected, treated fairly and with dignity. See the EEO poster, Know your rights poster, and NetApp EEO policy. NetApp makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for religious purposes and for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.

State-specific postings/notices to applicants regarding contract compliance can be found here in English and here in Spanish, and fair employment practice information can be found here.

Reasonable accommodation

If you are an applicant with a physical or mental disability requiring an accommodation, or you require a religious accommodation for any part of our application process, please email gdib@netapp.com. Each request for reasonable accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis, consistent with applicable laws and regulations. Please note, this email address is only for accommodation requests; we do not accept unsolicited resumes.

Data privacy

We care about your privacy and therefore ask that you read our Applicant Privacy Policy (PDF) before you submit any personal information to us.

NetApp may use an automated employment evaluation tool or similar tool as one of several tools, actions, and/or steps to assist with NetApp’s review of candidate applications for various hiring needs. Currently, when addressing certain hiring needs, NetApp uses the Eightfold tool which can provide an initial ranking of a candidate’s skills and experience, based on information provided by the applicant in the application and/or supporting documentation, in comparison to the NetApp designated key requirements of a specific role. Additionally, the tool may be used to help review and /or rank internal employees seeking promotion or other internal mobility.

An independent audit of the Eightfold Matching Model tool can be found at https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model.

Candidates may request an alternative selection process which will not be subject to the Eightfold matching tool or to any electronic automated employment evaluation by contacting NetApp at careers@netapp.com. To bypass the Eightfold matching tool or any electronic automated employment evaluation, you must include a resume and job ID with your email to careers@netapp.com and you must include in the subject line of your email: Data Privacy Request. Candidates who have questions or want to request additional information on the source of data, type of data, and/or collection of data related to the candidate review process should contact NetApp at careers@netapp.com

Submitting an application

To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

*Applies to applicants for employment in the United States.