Role/Team overview : Sky Business is expanding its Mid-Market and Enterprise capability, helping organisations transform how they connect, collaborate and operate through market-leading connectivity, voice, mobile, security and managed technology solutions.We are looking for a Manager of Pre-Sales Solution Consultants to lead a team of technical pre-sales specialists, ensuring alignment with sales priorities and delivering high-quality customer solutions that drive commercial success.This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong technical credibility, commercial acumen and people leadership. Alongside coaching and developing the team, you will engage senior customer stakeholders on complex, high-value opportunities, providing technical leadership and executive-level support.What you'll do: Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Pre-Sales Solution Consultants, setting clear priorities and managing capacity to ensure alignment with business strategy, sales objectives
and high-value customer opportunities. Drive technical sales excellence by overseeing technical discovery, solution design, documentation and customer-facing support across connectivity, WiFi, voice, mobile, security and managed services, ensuring solutions are commercially viable and aligned to customer and delivery requirements. Act as a senior technical leader on complex, strategic and high-value opportunities, engaging with senior customer stakeholders, supporting Sales teams, providing escalation support, and ensuring the quality of bids, RFIs, RFPs, solution designs and technical responses. Establish and govern the Pre-Sales operating model, embedding consistent processes for opportunity qualification, technical discovery, solution validation, customer engagement, documentation, handover and pipeline reviews, while maintaining clear visibility of activity, risks, priorities and outcomes. Partner across Sky Business with Sales, Product, Commercial, Engineering, Tech Ops, PMO, Delivery

and partner teams to ensure customer solutions are delivered seamlessly, while providing market insight, technical enablement and strategic support to customer-facing teams. Build future capability by developing team skills through coaching, mentoring and structured development, fostering continuous improvement, driving enhancements to tools and ways of working, and shaping the future role of Pre-Sales as Sky Business expands its Mid-Market and Enterprise ambitions.What you'll bring:You will be a collaborative, commercially minded and technically credible leader with a passion for helping customers solve business challenges through technology. Comfortable operating across Sales, technical teams, partners and senior customer stakeholders, you'll be equally effective shaping strategy and providing hands-on support on complex, high-value opportunities. Leadership & Pre-Sales Expertise: Proven experience leading or coaching technical pre-sales, solution consulting, solution architecture or
sales engineering teams, driving performance, development and prioritisation in a customer-focused environment. Technical & Industry Knowledge: Strong understanding of B2B telecoms and managed services, including connectivity, SD-WAN/SASE, networking, WiFi, voice, mobile, security, cloud connectivity and modern hybrid IT architectures. Customer & Sales Engagement: Demonstrated ability to lead senior customer conversations, support complex sales cycles, shape winning solutions, and drive technical engagement across bids, RFIs, RFPs and strategic opportunities. Commercial & Solution Design Capability: Able to translate customer requirements into practical, technically robust and commercially viable solutions, balancing customer outcomes, delivery considerations, risk and revenue opportunities. Stakeholder & Communication Skills: Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across customers, Sales, Product, Commercial, Engineering,
Operations, Delivery teams and external partners. Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Experienced in using Salesforce and other CRM/reporting tools to manage pipeline visibility and performance, with a track record of improving processes, governance, documentation and ways of working within a technical sales environment.Benefits and perks There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here's a taster: Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution Private healthcare with mental health support Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect Sharesave and Tech schemes A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences How you'll work:We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. This is a
field-based role requiring you to travel across the UK. Who we are :We're Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you'll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society. We're an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we'll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any
convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer. To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position. To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.