Presales Consultant

Edinburgh Source: WhatJobs
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Overview

As Presales Consultant, you will bridge client needs with delivery and commercial teams to craft winning proposals. You’ll engage with client stakeholders, run discovery sessions, and shape solutions that align with business challenges. You’ll lead end-to-end RFx pursuits and contribute to strategic bids, turning technical capabilities into compelling value propositions. You collaborate across commercial, delivery and technology teams to influence deal strategy and win themes. This role offers an opportunity to shape AI-driven responses and drive customer success at scale within a values-driven, award-winning environment.

Pay / Benefits

  • Quarterly performance-related profit share
  • Strong career progression and mentorship
  • Flexible/remote working
  • Pension and private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • Employee wellbeing programmes

Responsibilities

  • Engage with client stakeholders in discovery sessions and workshops to understand challenges and shape responses
  • Lead RFx opportunities end-to-end and play a core role on larger strategic bids
  • Map stakeholder landscapes, identify decision-makers and influencers, and tailor positioning
  • Translate technical capability into commercial arguments and value cases for senior buyers
  • Develop case studies, solution narratives, and value propositions with SMEs and delivery teams
  • Participate in and help lead client workshops, solution demonstrations, and oral presentations
  • Analyze competitor positioning and market intelligence to inform deal strategy and win themes
  • Track win conversion and actively work to improve win rate
  • Contribute perspectives on AI in presales to improve response quality, speed, and outcomes across the team
  • Act as a connective link across commercial, delivery and technology teams

Key requirements

  • Experience in IT services or technology consulting with direct client-facing exposure
  • Curiosity about AI tools and their application to presales
  • Confident engaging with senior client stakeholders in discovery, workshops or presentations
  • Proven ability to take a proposal from blank page to submission and own the solution narrative and client relationship
  • Commercial awareness to understand deal structures and why clients buy
  • Analytical mindset for interpreting market data and competitive intelligence
  • Advanced MS Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Organised, deadline-driven and able to manage several workstreams simultaneously
  • Confident communicator with senior stakeholders
  • Curiosity about AI applications in presales
  • Analytical mindset
  • Organised and deadline-driven
  • Advanced MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
  • Interest in AI tools and their application to presales

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