Location
Waltham MA (Hybrid)
Estimated Salary Range
$50k - $80k per year
How to Apply
Applicants are required to submit both a resume and a cover letter in PDF format for consideration. Within the cover letter please provide responses to the following questions:
- Question 1: Beyond the job description what specifically about a career in enterprise technology sales particularly in the complex field of Enterprise Technology or infrastructure for HPC/AI/ML excites you What do you hope to learn in such a role
- Question 2: A key part of this role is identifying high-potential customers. If you were given a list of 100 companies what are the top 3-4 data points or signals you would look for to determine which ones should be the highest priority prospects for our solutions
- Question 3: Describe a time you had to learn a complex technical topic quickly. What was your process and how did you ensure you understood it well enough to explain it simply to someone else
Only candidates who provide complete application materials including responses to the above questions will be considered.
Job Overview
The Cambridge Sales Support role is an entry level sales & support position assisting teams in building advanced IT solutions for our clients. By developing personal operational sales and technical expertise in Cambridge solutions this role can scale into opportunities of greater responsibility at our organization. Examples of this include sales operations inside / outside sales solution architecture advanced systems design installation and training.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Collaborate with Relationship Sales Managers in daily tasks:
- Perform product and technology research on hardware software and services offerings.
- Write quotes build proposals and manage statements of work in a manner that maximizes company profit.
- Communicate with vendors and clients.
- Coordinate online meetings technical demonstrations and conferences.
- Manage sales and order logistics.
- Recommend products and upsell solutions to vendors and clients.
- Populate and maintain Cambridges client relationship management (CRM) tools with accurate and timely information.
- Participate in Marketing & Customer Service activities:
- Manage positive vendor relationships.
- Drive lead generation activities including prospecting calling clients to attend technical lectures and following up on marketing driving initiatives.
- Participate in trade shows and/or act as a company representative.
- Act as a liaison between the corporate office and remote employees.
- Support Cambridge initiatives:
- Gain product and technology knowledge and certifications of the vendors we use in our solution stack. This includes Cisco Commvault Dell HPe IBM Lenovo VMWare and many others.
- Build familiarity of trends in storage networking data protection digital archiving and other infrastructure technologies.
- Understand solutions including high performance computing subject matter expertise in machine learning artificial intelligence bioinformatics and life sciences among others.
- Understand and execute corporate and sales managements goals and objectives.
Qualifications
- University undergraduate degree required. Science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) and/or advanced degree preferred.
- Understanding of basic computer hardware and software required. Greater understanding of technology and the IT ecosystem preferred.
- Although the expectation is that this role will be on site there may be times when work will be done outside the office. Accordingly the employee must be able to work remotely independently and unsupervised.
- Candidates must have impeccable communications skills an ability to multi-task and high attention to detail. They must be able to negotiate be proactive in their approach effective problem solvers organized creative outgoing deal with ambiguity and able to work with different types of personalities.
- Although not required many of our successful individuals have some sales experience. Having this skill could assist in scaling to future positions.
- Cambridge employees are self-paced and embrace driving their own personal development. Given the number of potential opportunities for advancement employees must be proactive if they seek advancement.
About Us
Cambridge Computer is a leader in delivering innovative physical and cloud-based IT infrastructure data storage and data security solutions to clients in a wide variety of industries across North America. Our clients include Fortune 100 companies nonprofits academic institutions and some of the hottest high-technology companies in the country. We use creativity technical expertise and extensive industry relationships with investors entrepreneurs technology visionaries and manufacturers to identify and incorporate both new and existing paradigms into cohesive IT strategies for our clients. Also were a Woman-Owned Small Business with a close-knit staff of about 70 people that hail from all over the world.
Benefits
We recognize that satisfaction and well-being are integral components for long-term sustainability and business success. As such available to full-time employees are the following benefits:
- Multiple health insurance options
- Medical FSA and Dependent Care FSA
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance401(k) savings plan with employer matching
- Employer-sponsored long-term disability
- Paid holidays and PTO that increases with longevity at the company
- Discounted health club membership
- Convenient parking
- Opportunities for growth!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Cambridge Computer provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty military service or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.