Author: DeMond Adkison

[Career Opportunity] Hybrid Cloud Sales Specialist

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Hybrid-Cloud Sales Specialist:

Looking to make a dramatic change in our company’s strategic plans moving forward while taking advantage of one of the industry’s best commission plans?  If so, this position is for you.

We are seeking a Hybrid-Cloud Sales Specialist to lead in the development of the technical solution or offering and in translating the business needs into technical requirements. The right person will be able to identify gaps, strategic impacts, financial impacts and the risk profile in the technical solution or offering and be able to relay these to clients and prospects. 

As a Hybrid Cloud Sales Specialist, you’ll be constantly learning about new technologies and how they can be applied to solve enterprise challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Play a key role in building a cloud practice.
  • Prospecting to SMB to large enterprise clients to drive meetings (virtual or in person)
  • Meet quantitative performance expectations.
  • Collaborate with the sales organization to advance key infrastructure and cloud management opportunities.
  • Contribute to sales and marketing strategies in the infrastructure and cloud management solutions portfolio.
  • Present at events or webinars to raise awareness of Clear’s infrastructure and cloud solutions portfolio.
  • Partner with distributor and manufacturer partners to drive new opportunities.

Required Skills

  • Strong understanding of data center technology and cloud
  • Effective influencing and negotiation skills
  • Client oriented approach
  • Business communication, leadership and project management skills
  • Innovation skills and vision
  • Business architectural, analysis and planning skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Experience

  • 5+  years of experience in solutions sales role
  • Extensive experience in technical sales in data center infrastructure, cloud, and cloud management solutions
  • Good communication and technical skills that enable customer relationship development to all  levels

In order for our team to consider you for employment, you MUST fill out this Pre- Employment survey below:

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[Career Opportunity] IT Services Manager

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We’re searching for an energetic, and action-oriented leader to head up our IT consulting group.

This management position is accountable for a group of client facing consultants. The head of consulting services is responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of all consulting contracts as well as pre-sales engagements.

This position will contribute to the development and execution of the company strategy.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Play a key role in building a cloud practice
  • Lead and grow a team of consultants to support a client base of SMB to large enterprise clients
  • Manage resource allocation between pre-sales support for the sales team and billable consulting engagements
  • Provides strategic direction and oversight for the team to keeps up skills and ensure quality delivery of projects and client support.
  • Works with the sales team to properly scope and deliver SOW’s for project based services
  • Acts as a trusted advisor and builds and maintains relationships with the sales team, partner companies and clients to develop a clear understanding of business needs

Required Skills

  • Visionary leader with an eye for the future of data center technology and cloud
  • Client first mindset
  • Strong project management acumen
  • Understanding of current and emerging technologies and practices
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and technologies to business leaders.

Required Experience

  • 5 or more years of experience in IT and/or consulting business
  • 1 years of IT leadership experience

In order for our team to consider you for employment, you MUST fill out this Pre- Employment survey below:

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[Career Opportunity] Marketing Manager Position

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Job Description

We are looking for a detailed and dedicated Marketing Manager to join our team in Addison, Texas for an in-office position. The Marketing Manager is responsible for executing e-mail and social media activities to generate leads to expand our B2B Reseller partner and customer base and increase our revenue by acquiring new customer accounts.

Specific responsibilities include working with minimal supervision to leverage prospect, customer, partner lists to conduct live event, online event, and creative marketing activities. Other activities include outbound marketing, including email, SEO, copywriting/editing, graphic
design, and videos to customers, prospects, partners, and media outlets. Other duties may be assigned where necessary.

Requirements:

  • 4-5 years B2B marketing experience.
  • Sound understanding of marketing principles and correlation to ROI.
  • Ability to win partner sales force mindshare through novel and innovative marketing activities.
  • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office 365, Photoshop, Illustrator, marketing automation platforms, WordPress, and all social media platforms.
  • Leveraging digital technology and social media to identify prospects and source leads.
  • Using Salesforce to pipeline prospective clients using company acquired leads.
  • Excellent command of written English with copy accuracy.
  • Confident and upbeat personality.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business Administration.

Skills: In addition to the requirements listed above, the following skills or experience are needed to successfully perform the job:

  • Proven strong administration and organizational skills
  • Strong project management skills
  • Ability to multi­task, prioritize, and manage time effectively
  • Discipline to setup, track, and analyze marketing campaigns and online activities
  • Skill to write B2B-focused articles and promotional materials
  • Flexibility to assist with cold-calling
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure
  • Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities

In order for our team to consider you for employment, you MUST fill out this Pre- Employment survey below:

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Red Hat Ansible Workshop

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April 15th | 1 PM CDT

Clear Technologies Red Hat Ansible Workshop

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Join us April 15th as we take a deeper dive into how Red Hat Ansible amplifies the impact of IT professionals by automating repetitive inefficient task, streamlining IT leading to an increase in revenue.

Below is a sample of what will be covered during the workshop. The workshop will be designed around the specific instances that attendees want to see:

  • Introduction to Ansible automation
  • How Ansible works for network automation
  • Understanding Ansible modules and playbooks
  • Executing Ansible playbooks to:
    • Make configuration changes
    • Make routine changes
    • Gather information (Ansible facts)
  • Using Jinja to template network configurations
  • Using Ansible Tower to scale automation to the enterprise
  • Configure Cisco switches to work with Ansible

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