Salary:
Category: IT
Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: Glasgow Lanarkshire
Posted on: 08/03/2010

We are currently looking to recruit an experienced Technical Consultant / Manager to manage and direct the Technical Professional Services Team and deliver both pre-sales and technical consultancy services to new and existing customers across Scotland

We are looking for a candidate to manage our Project Teams across Scotland and to play an important part in directing us in new and emerging technologies; to work closely with the Sales team, attending pre sales meetings and assisting the sales team in the generation of sales proposals and solutions architecture.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to take complete ownership of a projects and people from initial sales engagement, all the way through to project planning solution deployment.

The successful Technical Consultant / Manager will:

• Be highly qualified in a range of technologies with particular emphasis on consulting as a service.
• Be able to demonstrate the ability to work in an organised fashion, to tight timescales
• Be able to ensure projects stay on schedule.
• Possess a proven ability to present highly technical proposals to a client and deliver them in a profitable manner.
• Remain current with emerging technologies
• Provide strong leadership to the Project Team and guidance to the Sales team.

Required Skills for Technical Consultant / Manager

• Microsoft (Technical Background)
• VM Ware (Technical Background)
• Project Management
• Pre-Sales engagement
• Meetings
• Proposals
• Presentations
• Proof of concepts
• SAN Architecture SAN Deployment (Technical Background)
• Proven Management Skills
• Professional Qualifications

Additional Preferred Experience for Technical Consultant / Manager

• Altiris
• CommVault
• Citrix

In return you will receive a competitive salary, excellent working conditions, training, life assurance, critical illness cover and private healthcare. A company laptop and phone will also be provided.

This role will be based across various locations in Scotland; therefore a full UK Driving Licence will be required. This is an excellent opportunity to work for a leading provider of software and hardware solutions.


Spire is a recruitment outsourcing company that advertises on behalf of both client organisations and recruitment agencies. Applicant details submitted in response to this advertisement will be passed directly to the organisation on behalf of whom we are advertising.

Vacancy Reference: 37436804
Employer/Agency: Spire