
Solution Engineer, UK and Ireland
- York
- Permanent
- Full-time
- As the issuer processing Subject Matter Expert (SME), you’ll provide strategic support to Sales during various phases of the sales cycle.
- You’ll create, review, and/or lead the creation of proposal materials for existing and prospective clients
- preliminary call activities, performing prospect research, presentation preparation, compiling and/or developing collateral materials, and/or meeting preparation / follow-up.
- You’ll run value proposition sessions with internal teams to develop strong, quantifiable and winning themes to build our responses around.
- You’ll complete and review documentation in response to a Request for Information (RFI) and Request for Proposal (RFP).
- Creates and leads pitch presentations to prospective clients, to include storyboarding and creation of compelling presentation material, and coaching of the bid team to ensure consistent messages are being delivered.
- Completes solution design work, addressing client requirements and working with internal technical and commercial teams to formulate a winning proposal.
- Delivers product demos against prospect requirements – working with TSYS Product teams to bring our solutions to life with prospective clients.
- Facilitates the development of sales strategies with other inter-company departments and other partners (vendors) involved in the sales process for individual prospects.
- Works in close liaison with Marketing and/or product owners to gather information and materials for sales offerings.
- Identifies coaching/mentoring opportunities and provides less experienced Solution Engineers with feedback and advice regarding sales support activities.
- Assists management with the coordination of strategic Sales Team activity that may not directly involve a client / prospect such as team education, trade show participation, etc.
- Compiles information and prepares reporting of strategic sales activities and key sales metrics for management to present to the executive leadership team.
- Remains knowledgeable and up-to-date on the current product/service portfolio and changes/developments within the payments industry. Maintains a comprehensive knowledge of all applications, modules, Value Added Products (VAP) offerings, and/or systems that are being sold by the supported Sales team.
- Extensive experience in the payments industry – 5 years plus ideally, with a significant portion of this in issuer processing.
- Experience working with the TSYS TS2 platform and ecosystem an advantage.
- Articulate and a good standard of English too - writing skills are important.
- Good understanding of latest trends in IT – cloud computing, big data, APIs etc.
- Experience presenting to mid-level / senior audiences.
- Strong writing skills, able to clearly and concisely convey TSYS value propositions in proposals and presentations.
- Advanced ability to be an effective problem solver and act quickly to resolve issues.
- Effective listener and communicator who is able to be a reliable strategic partner to the sales team.
- Team player, helping out on opportunities across regions depending on work stack, and proactively supporting and coaching more junior members of the team.
- Effective relationship building, to grow both internal network at TSYS in order to create accurate, up to date sales collateral; and external network to gain industry / prospect insights.
- Strong analytical skills, able to identify prospect needs and develop a tailored value proposition and solution with clearly identified benefits to differentiate TSYS against our competition.
- Technical experience an advantage – knowledge of solution architecture, integration patterns and different SDLCs.
- Willingness to travel, to meet prospects and internal TSYS teams, growing your internal and external networks.