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Role: Technology & Pricing Specialist, Networking & Security
Location: Manchester or Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: competitive salary plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
* An inclusive workplace
* Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
* Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
* Career development and life-long learning opportunities
* Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Role purpose: Ownership of complex Networking & Security opportunities by providing specialist quoting and support around complex orders to the branch, wider SCC departments and end user customers.
Key responsibilities:
* Position yourself as a Technology Specialist for relevant Networking & Security vendors within the business and proactively update and maintain knowledge on a regular basis
* Assist with high end specifications by speaking to customer as necessary in order to qualify requirements
* Be responsible for creating complex configurations and act as a sanity check for complex configurations created by distribution where necessary
* Ensure that pricing submitted contains most appropriate pricing structures / programmes / bid process as relevant
* Create customer facing quotations in appropriate format with any associated documentation as necessary
* Assist with pre-sales technical queries as required
* Be available to attend conference calls in order to assist in the qualification process
* Undergo appropriate training and obtain associated accreditations
* Provide support to the Operations team for any complex requirements
* Maximising rebate payments utilising relevant tools
* Ongoing training/support to both the branches and supporting teams (Romania) to ensure best practice around SCC Networking & Security quoting
* Central point of contact and distribution point for vendor specific technology/promo pricing into the wider business
* Assistance with pipeline management as required
Skills and experience:
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Proven experience in industry and sound technology background
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Excellent attention to detail
* Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
* Good analytical and commercial skills
* Adaptable and flexible in a fast paced environment
About You
About Us
SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.
We are an equal opportunities employer
SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.
If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.
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