Safaricom
Limited is the leading mobile telecommunications company in Kenya.
At
Safaricom, we take pride in our talent and develop them to realize their
maximum potential!
Senior Solutions Architect
EBU – SSA – May-2013
EBU – SSA – May-2013
We
are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Enterprise Service
Delivery Department within the Enterprise Business Unit Division.
In
keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets
the criteria indicated below:
Reporting
to the Senior Manager, Pre-Sales, the job holder will be responsible for
providing presales support by ensuring custom made solutions are designed and
developed based on customer needs and the operating environment.
The successful candidate will be responsible for;
The successful candidate will be responsible for;
- Support sales
team in sales engagement and drive solutions based on customer
requirements;
- Grow Enterprise
Business revenues and market share;
- Apply specific
experience to design solutions for clients;
- Achieve
companywide Customer Delight Index score through timely and quality
designs;
- Prepare
competitive enterprise business proposals;
- Work with
various stakeholder to improve design, planning and acceptance of
enterprise solutions designs;
- Demonstrate the
ability to coordinate various objectives from multiple internal divisions
in an effort to drive value for our customers
- Ability to
prepare and deliver presentations to management and executive level
audiences
- Experience with
the following is required: mobile and fixed network infrastructure, cloud
and data center solutions, collaboration and unified communications,
security and managed services
- Embrace the
Safaricom Ways and Values in their day to day work;
The
ideal candidate will possess:
- Degree in a
Computer Science/Telecommunication/Information Technology or related
discipline;
- At least 5
years’ experience in a network design and implementation as well as
technical sales field.
- Accreditation in
network or data center solutions design;
- Cisco
Certification will be an added advantage;
- Sales exposure
with preferably training in the same field will be an added advantage;
- Sound solutions
knowledge of Enterprise services portfolio;
- Proposal writing
skills will be must;
- Strong
relationship building skills;
- Excellent
presentation skills.
If
you meet the requirements and are self-driven, proactive and up to the
challenge, please send your resume and application letter quoting the job
reference number to the address below.
All
applications must be delivered on or before Wednesday 29th May 2013.
Head of Talent & Resourcing
Safaricom Ltd Nairobi
via E-mail to: hr@safaricom.co.ke