Principal Sales Engineer

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.Come join the excellence!

Overview

The Applications / Systems Engineering area is responsible for technical pre / post-sales support. Includes customized application engineering and solutions, implementation, training, and maintenance. Assesses application of firm products to meet customer needs. May prepare product specifications for development and implementation of client solutions.

Responsibilities

The Global Solution Consulting Practice supports the sales function by engaging with customers and internal stakeholders to identify and scope sales opportunities, co-design solutions, and hand-over their execution to the delivery teams. The Practice spans across all TNS regions : 1) North America, 2a) the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, 2b) Mainland Europe, 3) the Asia Pacific, and 4) Latin America.

This role will help the Sales Group principally in North America (Region 1) to identify payment solution opportunities within a complete commerce framework, define business problems and solutions via in-depth investigation and gathering of technical and non-technical information, outline detailed requirements for solutions and hand over to delivery to ensure opportunities are completed successfully. A particular focus is Managed Network Services. Assisting the sales team by providing technical support, advice to target customers, and demonstrations (including proof of concept deliveries) to ensure services and solutions are fully qualified and designed to achieve the customer’s requirements. Additionally, to enable the Sales Managers to successfully win business with both our new and existing customers.

Scope may include internal and customer business problems, process definition, training delivery and execution, and support to the Sales Group and Solution Consulting Practice.

Qualifications

Essential responsibilities include :

• Identifying opportunities for managed networks and payments solution sales and supporting the Sales Group prosecuting them.Gathering, validating and documenting customer business requirements.Designing and presenting customer solutions utilising TNS standard solutions, if necessary, suggesting adjacent solutions.Explaining solutions to help remove customers’ barriers to purchase by clearly articulating TNS’ solutions and responding to customers’ technical questions.Support bids, proposals, and presentations
• Industry Standards, Compliance and Trends : Collaborating across the team to keep up to date with industry standards, emerging technologies, and trends relevant to the company’s offerings. Regulatory Compliance : Understanding and ensuring solutions comply with relevant industry regulations and standards.Security Best Practices : Incorporating security best practices into solution design to protect customer data and systems.Regulatory Compliance : Understanding and ensuring solutions comply with relevant industry regulations and standards.Security Best Practices : Incorporating security best practices into solution design to protect customer data and systems.
• Proof of Concept (PoC) : Working with Product to develop PoCs to demonstrate how the solution meets customer needs.
• Documenting solutionsCreating high level drawings to explain solutionsEstimating costs and analysing commercial data to support business cases.Creating functional specifications for solutions.Using and updating CRM tools
• Stakeholder ManagementEmploying an approach to identifying and managing various stakeholders, understanding their concerns and expectations when partnering with TNS, and building processes that consistently follow the same flow to share customer expectations and requirements with the internal teams at TNS.

Essential Skills

For this role, we anticipate paying $140,000k - $150,000K. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge skills, abilities, and geographic location. TNS offers a competitive benefit package including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, paid holidays and vacations, and a 401K plan with company match.

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability / handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.