Core Solution Sales Manager at Nokia

What you will learn and contribute to

As part of our team, you will:

• Identify and understand customers’ technical, operational and commercial challenges and opportunities.
• Plan sales initiatives within customer team and lead & follow through on CNS Core opportunities.
• Develop and maintain understanding and insight of customer’s business and markets and follow proactively the trends/needs in own area and turn them to new business opportunities for the customer and for Nokia.
• Manage quality and value by utilizing Nokia’s deep expertise, resources and intellectual capital to realize high customer value and delight.
• Build subject matter expertise in own solution area and share knowledge in Core Presales community as well as wider Nokia community.

Your skills and experience

You have:

• At least ten years of work experience in the telecommunications domain particularly on the core network, and intimate technical knowledge of telco networks (mobile 3G /4G voice & data core, SDM, IMS/VoLTE, 5G core, signaling nodes, cloud networks), technologies and protocols
• High level knowledge of products within Nokia’s or equivalent software products (Cloud Core Products) and emerging technologies in 5G, IoT, etc.
• Presales and Solution Selling competences: architecture & solution building

It would be beneficial if you also had:

• Experience in technical negotiations
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills required. French native speaking skills is highly appreciated.
• Strong interpersonal capabilities and customer intimacy
• Creative ‘out of the box’ thinker
• Exceptional work ethic, the ability to work independently, self-motivated, driven and a strong desire to succeed
• Strong skills on communication and presentation - even for large audience
• Understanding and previous experience of Virtualization and Cloud technologies, including Compute, Storage and Networking components.