PORTFOLIO MARKETING TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

Requisition Number: 212616

External Description:

Teradata enables customers to support their business opportunities and address their business challenges with timely information from many source systems, both internal and external. To assist customers and prospects in choosing technology that meets their needs, we may support their decision process with a benchmark of new technology versus existing technology, help them prove out an idea for a new application; either a technically oriented Proof Of Concept (POC) or a business oriented Proof Of Value (POV), or in some cases a demonstration or trial to prove that a solution will meet their needs.

We are looking for people that have experience in benchmarks, POC’s, POVs, and demonstrations of technology to build the collateral to help the sales teams win business by showing customers and prospected that we can meet their needs better than any alternative. They may need to provide hands-on support for applying materials in critical engagements.

Portfolio Marketing Technical Specialist needs to:

• Develop and document demonstrations and tools that can be re-applied by field teams to support sales motions
• Design and lead implementation of packages to generate and load industry specific data for use in demonstrations
• Provide training materials for field teams on strategy and use of materials
• Provide guidance to critical engagements on competitive tactics
• lead benchmark workshops to document critical success factors and document a project of sufficient scope to support the customer/prospect technology selection
• be brave enough to assess engagements that won’t provide valuable input to customer/prospect technology selections and stand up to field sales executives to stop bad engagements
• coach teams in techniques for quick benchmark implementation,
• assist in the analysis of customer production requirements and benchmark results
• “hack” software you’ve never seen before to install, configure, and demonstrate basic use by following documentation and using web searches.

Essential Skills:

• Experience in presenting at the DBA level and the Customer Executive level.
• Strong PowerPoint and Word skills
• Experience working as a DBA for a production system or supporting DBAs
• Strong skills in one or more Enterprise Class DBMSs
• Experience in cloud implementations
• Strong Excel skills including pivot tables and graphs
• Experience in production ETL/ELT applications and writing analytic queries. Specific experience in one or more ETL/ELT or BI tools is a plus.
• Basic Linux system admin skills and strong skills in Linux scripting
• Experience in automating mundane DBA tasks and Linux file manipulation

And, If possible:

• Strong skills in Teradata SQL, TASM and Teradata Utilities
• Java programming skills

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City: London

State: Greater London

Community / Marketing Title: PORTFOLIO MARKETING TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

Job Category: Product Marketing

Company Profile:

Our Company

At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. That’s why we built the most complete cloud analytics and data platform for AI. By delivering harmonized data, trusted AI, and faster innovation, we uplift and empower our customers—and our customers’ customers—to make better, more confident decisions. The world’s top companies across every major industry trust Teradata to improve business performance, enrich customer experiences, and fully integrate data across the enterprise.

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