Sales Manager - Platforms & Storage

Our client Wipro is an IT Company and is seeking to recruit result driven and motivated individuals for the Vacancy above;

Mission:

To manage the sales function for Platforms and Storage domain of Wipro in Africa.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strong experience in sales and pre sales of Servers & Storage in the East Africa region.
• Extremely good domain knowledge on server, storage and workstations technologies.
• Track record of having advised ,created solutions from architecture to BOM for servers & storage.
• Exposure to Virtualization, HPC and cloud computing.
• Strong understanding of entry. mid, high end servers across OEM’s (at least 2 of the following Sun/Oracle, HP, IBM, EMC etc).
• Good understanding of Operating systems- Unix, Linux, windows, Solaris etc.
• Good understanding of SAN/NAS technologies and exposure to data Centre / DR deployment.
• Good understanding of Backup and archival concepts (disk, tape library etc.).

Qualifications:

• At least 7 to 9 years’ experience in Sales/ Presales.
• Exposure to sales to C level technology stakeholders and account management.
• Experience of handling large banking, telecom customers in the Africa region.
• Experience in delivering technical proposals and bid/ RFP responses.
• Education : Bachelors in Engineering, technology streams or a very strong technology sales background with a diploma in information technology (management education is a clear plus)).
• Strong experience of working closely with OEM Sales/Pre-sales teams.
• Good understanding of Alliance management.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and customer interaction skills with a good command of the English language.
• Track record of owning and achieving a sales quotadirectly.

How to Apply:

Please follow the instructions as stated below as failure to do so could lead to disqualification.

1. Send an Application letter and CV/Resume.

2. Merge these two documents into one document in either word or pdf format.

3. Do not attach or send any scanned documents, these are sometimes too large for our inbox.

4. Include the job title and/or reference number in the subject line of the email address and send your application by email to wiprojobs@nftconsult.com

5. Only successful candidates will be contacted. For all other inquiries please contact our offices directly.