NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING IS A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SALES ENGINEERING GROUP’S PRIMARY TASKS AND MAY NOT, THEREFORE, CONTAIN ALL POSSIBLE SPECIFIC WORK ASSIGNMENTS.
The Sr. Sales Engineer provides pre-sales technical support for all Kofax products and associated applications. While assigned to a geographic area, Sr. Sales Engineers also collaborate with and backup peers from across the country to provide efficient pre-sales support nationwide.
The Sr. Sales Engineer is responsible for:
Required Skills
Performance is measured by the revenue produced in Kofax software sales, professional services, and other measurable performance such as: demonstrations, overall sales support, communications, team building, Internal asset contribution and technical leadership. Measurable performance also includes the individuals willingness to:
All Kofax Sr. Sales Engineers regardless of title or level must possess the following skills and knowledge:
(Internal & external) – including but not limited to professional writing, problem escalation, and good analysis skills as outlined below.
Ability to plan for and conduct an Interview with the prospect and/or customer to determine the true business requirements to help build a valid Return on Investment (ROI).
Critical path analysis to do risk assessment, problem decomposition and resource estimation. Not a concentrated focus on the tools available to manage projects but a working knowledge of the concepts and how they apply in sales situations i.e. knowledge of the theory, not the mechanics.
Professional presentation skills and experience in team selling, solution selling methodologies, and an understanding of and ability to utilize the Kofax Sales Process
Ability to manage projects including preparation for presentations and demonstrations, training, scheduling, and reporting, and expense processing. This is critical to the success of the sales opportunities as the Sr. Sales Engineer will be required to manage multiple sales campaigns at any given time.
A HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING of basic networking and operating system concepts, Visual Basic development / scripting – Ability to develop, test and deploy custom VB/VBA scripts, Java and JavaScript, Industry specific business pain points with active paper processing, storage, and retrieval, and an understanding of J2EE, XML, .NET, OCR, ICR and their use in business processing.
A HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING of each of the suites that constitute the Kofax product line and the ability to fit the pieces together into the whole strategy - By stating the requirement for ‘a HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING’, it is defined as the ability to:
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Required Experience
The qualified applicant must demonstrate knowledge of the roles, responsibilities, processes, tools and techniques used by pre-sales technical support and sales departments, and have excellent people skills, communication and negotiation skills along with the ability to perform professional presentations, and extensive, up-to-date technical knowledge in document management and digital processing.
Qualifications include:
7-10 years’ experience supporting a solution sales team in the pre-sales technical role
Experience leading complex, technical, enterprise solution-based opportunities through the opportunity sales step to successful close
Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, information technology or a related discipline, or equivalent years of experience.
Professional presentation experience
Publishing of white papers, blogs, thought leadership assets
Business analysis at both the IT and LOB level, including the ability to document the analysis in a useable, shareable format
Experience working with various partners/channel organization
Ability to travel 50%
Able to lift and carry at least 50 pounds
Knowledge and experience with Visual Basic and Java
Experience in business process management/software industry is a plus.
A Fundamentals Level of understanding around Cloud, Cloud Services, and deploying Enterprise Software on the Cloud is highly desirable.
Performance is measured by the revenue produced in Kofax software sales, professional services, and other measurable performance such as: demonstrations, overall sales support, communications, team building, Internal asset contribution and technical leadership. Measurable performance also includes the individuals willingness to:
All Kofax Sr. Sales Engineers regardless of title or level must possess the following skills and knowledge:
(Internal & external) – including but not limited to professional writing, problem escalation, and good analysis skills as outlined below.
Ability to plan for and conduct an Interview with the prospect and/or customer to determine the true business requirements to help build a valid Return on Investment (ROI).
Critical path analysis to do risk assessment, problem decomposition and resource estimation. Not a concentrated focus on the tools available to manage projects but a working knowledge of the concepts and how they apply in sales situations i.e. knowledge of the theory, not the mechanics.
Professional presentation skills and experience in team selling, solution selling methodologies, and an understanding of and ability to utilize the Kofax Sales Process
Ability to manage projects including preparation for presentations and demonstrations, training, scheduling, and reporting, and expense processing. This is critical to the success of the sales opportunities as the Sr. Sales Engineer will be required to manage multiple sales campaigns at any given time.
A HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING of basic networking and operating system concepts, Visual Basic development / scripting – Ability to develop, test and deploy custom VB/VBA scripts, Java and JavaScript, Industry specific business pain points with active paper processing, storage, and retrieval, and an understanding of J2EE, XML, .NET, OCR, ICR and their use in business processing.
A HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING of each of the suites that constitute the Kofax product line and the ability to fit the pieces together into the whole strategy - By stating the requirement for ‘a HIGH LEVEL UNDERSTANDING’, it is defined as the ability to:
KOFAX, INC. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER M/F/DISABILITY/VETS