Now Hiring - China Telecom Americas - Telecommunications Sales Engineer in Los Angeles, CA

Description Summary:

The Sales Engineer will be the technical liaison and key advisor working closely with the team?s Sales Managers and Network Operations to ensure customer requirements are met during the pre-sales phase. Pre-sales activity includes but is not limited to, support in contract bids and network solution design. The Sales Engineer is also recognized as the product advocate, assisting in streamlining support processes of CTA products and Services.

Major Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary technical liaison for sales managers, customers, pricing team, project managers and Network Operations
• Aggregate customer?s technical requirements directly through sales, or through a customer visit, and design a solution around those requirements
• Identify technical solutions and define technical requirements for service implementation, understanding customer?s existing network, key locations and technical needs
• Present, demonstrate and communicate the technical capabilities of the Company network and associated products and services
• Present the technical design/RFP in a complete and well-illustrated fashion to the appropriate sales representatives and/or customer
• Keep the sales force appraised of technical updates, and similarly keep the network group and product development teams aware of forthcoming technical requirements
• Conduct product and resource check with China Telecom Provincial organization as well as CT Headquarters
• Utilize existing IT software (BSS, CRM etc).