Geospatial Pre-Sales Consultant

Scotland, United Kingdom

Geospatial Pre-Sales Consultant

Idox Software

Home or Office Based (Glasgow, Belfast or Woking)

About the role

We are looking to recruit a talented and motivated Geospatial Pre-Sales Consultant to join our Product Management Team. Formerly known as thinkWhere, our geospatial team are now proud to be part of the Idox Geospatial Division and are at the leading edge of cloud delivery for web mapping and pioneering GIS software and data as a service. Using globally leading geospatial technologies, this is a team which is passionate about applying GIS and geospatial data to improve and innovate what our customers do.

As a Geospatial Pre-Sales Consultant you will have a broad set of responsibilities. You will take a proactive role with customers, understanding their business processes, capturing requirements, building and delivering product demonstrations, researching trends, shaping solutions and providing pre/post sales technical support for our products. You will be expected to work in collaboration with our software development, data management, product management, sales and marketing teams to support customer engagement, product roadmaps and realising the opportunities for sales growth.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the expansion and use of GIS by our customers, internal and external, as well as contribute to future product and service development. You’ll work on your own initiative and bring new ideas to continuously improve what we do.

To apply, you will need to have a strong understanding of geospatial technologies, data and services and how we can use our capabilities to address the geospatial challenges and opportunities presented by our customers. You’ll find a fast-track personal development path and work on leading geospatial solutions that solve real world problems for our customers. Please look at our website to get a feel of the contribution you’ll be making as part of the Idox team: https://www.idoxgroup.com

Key Responsibilities

Provide pre-sales technical support to existing and prospective customers

Gather and analyse customer business needs and technical requirements

Lead pre sales engagement activity focused on GIS and geospatial technology products

Provide geospatial product demonstrations and presentations

Proposing realistic solutions to customer geospatial challenges

Assisting with the development of technical proposals and bids

Working with product management teams to shape product roadmaps driven by customer insight

Collaborate with other internal teams to deliver high impact solutions

Staying abreast of key industry trends and identifying target opportunities

Adherence to Idox Information Security policies and protocols.

To be successful, you’ll need to have:

At least 3 years practical experience working with GIS products and services

Applied knowledge of geospatial data management

Experience of providing customer-focused services

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work effectively and efficiently as part of a team

Good planning and organisational skills

Excellent problem solving and analysis skills

Ability to manage your own workload.

Ability to generate new ideas and solutions

Aptitude for learning and applying new technologies.

Additional desirable qualities:

or Technical Qualification in GIS, related discipline or transferable skills

of pre-sales consultancy.

About Idox

Our specialist software solutions power the performance of government and industry, driving productivity and a better experience for everyone. Built around the user and designed in collaboration with experts who have worked through every detail of every process from end-to-end, our hard-working process engines deliver exceptional functionality and embed workflows that drive efficiency and best practice with a long-term focus for regulated environments.

Through the automation of tasks, the simplification of complex operations, finding scalability as operations evolve, and more effective management of information, we help our customers harness the power of Digital, so they can do more.

We employ around 660 staff in the UK and worldwide, including Europe, North America and Asia, so some travel to meet colleagues may be required.

Our Values, Our Culture

We are ambitious in working together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity. Idox is a company where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit, where we respect all our employees, customers and communities in which we live, work and are a part of.

We recruit and reward employees based on capability and performance – regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability. Each office location worldwide, is free to respond to local needs to create a culturally sensitive workplace for everyone. In doing so, we want every employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.

Our Benefits Flex to Fit

We recognise that for individuals, the opportunity to work flexibly can enable them to achieve a better work-life balance along with a greater sense of responsibility, ownership and control of their working life. During the pandemic, all our employees successfully transitioned to remote working and we are open to conversations on work patterns to suit our employees needs such as change to working times; part time working; term time working; 9-day fortnight. We are proud to be a flexible employer enabling effective hybrid working for our employees.

How to apply

Please submit a CV, and a short cover letter (maximum 500 words - including salary expectation, and current remuneration) explaining why you feel you would be suited to this role.

Please note successful applicants will need to satisfy the BPSS guidelines (Baseline Personnel Security Standards) which consist of the receipt of satisfactory references covering the last 3 years of employment; an identity check; verification of eligibility to work in the UK; and a Basic Disclosure Check. This is in order to help us make safer recruitment decisions.

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Please read our Recruitment Data Privacy Policy here: Idox-Group-Recruitment-Privacy-Notice.pdf (idoxgroup.com)