• Participation, Leadership and Coordination of the AHEAD virtual team for Network Infrastructure • You will also be responsible for working with the AHEAD partner management team and directly with selected vendors to maintain vendor technical and sales relationships • As a Network Specialist you are a thought leader within the Engineering organization, responsible for designing, architecting, and, at times, consulting for Ahead clients • Your goal as a Network Lead should be to build skills, relationships, and industry credibility across many segments to drive product, services and consulting sales • Support the sales teams during engagements by providing advice and solutions or proposals optimized to meet customer technical and business requirements • Develops relationships with the account managers, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives and engages and leverages team specialist resources as appropriate • Strategizes and executes technical sales calls • Completes required pre-sales documentation (configurations, pricing, services, presentations, justifications etc.) quickly and accurately • Qualifies sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements, decision making process and funding • Presents and markets the design and value of proposed Ahead solutions and business justification to customers, prospects and Ahead management • Participates in mentorship of entry-level team members • Possesses strong, detailed product / technology / industry knowledge. Knowledge of job associated software and applications