Presales Solution Consultant, Financial Services
- Staines, Surrey
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for understanding business and technical problems addressed by ServiceNow products including business transformation, operational efficiency, key regulations & resilience, evolving business needs, security, etc.
- Routine interaction with C-Suite Executives
- Interview customers both face to face and remotely to uncover their technology architecture and business needs.
- Partner with the sales teams in the customer account and strategy planning
- Lead non-technical discussions with your customers to help define objectives that ServiceNow can address and their business value
- Sell the value of our solution, not just the features and functions of the products
- Support and sometimes lead regional marketing events - user conferences, trade shows, webinars, etc
- Demonstrations of the product, both standard and tailored to prospects and existing customers, both onsite and via video conference.
- Collaborate in the creation of product demo scripts and scenarios.
- Develop a deep understanding of the ServiceNow platform so you can be consultative and provide customers guidance and best practices in designing their solution
- Responding to Request for Information/Proposal documents
- Staying current on product developments/releases to a level required to brief customers on product roadmaps, deliver product demos and leading POV/POC cycles.
- Staying current on competitive analyses and understanding differentiators between the company and its competitors.
- In conjunction with Sales Personnel and Professional Services, conduct transition briefings - communicate commitments, set expectations in preparation for deployment
- Act as the ServiceNow subject matter expert at Executive briefings/marketing events
- Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
- Expertise (c.3-5 years) of enterprise software pre-sales solution consulting or sales engineering experience essential
- Experience working with and selling to Insurance or related Financial Services enterprises (+ 5000 employees)
- Experience selling complex multi-product or cross-platform software solutions essential
- Solution and/or process experience with one more of the following is highly desirable: IT Service Management (ITSM), Financial Management (FM) Project Portfolio Management (PPM), DevOps, Agile, HR Service Delivery (HRSD), Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Security Operations, IT Operations Management (ITOM) including Cloud Management, Event Management, Infrastructure Discovery/Mapping or any complementary technologies such as Generative AI.
- Exhibits a degree of technical expertise and understanding, with the aptitude to learn new technology and solutions quickly
- Able to articulate and logically communicate concepts with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills including technical and business concepts
- Understanding of and experience selling to Enterprise Architecture teams.
- Ability to understand the "bigger picture" and the business drivers around IT
- Territory management skills, including pipeline building and working with Sales counterpart to guide execution excellence
- Business Travel, as necessary within the UK and occasionally international travel to the US. Offices in London and Staines where regular attendance is expected
- Fluency in English