Professional Services Consultant

Join Vonage and help us innovate cloud communications for businesses worldwide! Our Applications business unit focuses on delivering a suite of advanced communication tools designed to enhance customer engagement. From cloud contact centers to feature-rich unified communications solutions, our Applications team is dedicated to providing businesses with the tools they need to streamline operations and improve customer experiences.

Vonage Professional Services Mission: We help customers succeed through the successful delivery of our entire portfolio of solutions. Our customers expect products and services to arrive on time, within budget and in line with technical, operational and functional expectations. Our job is to make sure this happens. We apply customer, business, technical and service understanding to orchestrate a holistic and unified company approach to developing and delivering what our customers need and expect. We integrate Vonage capabilities with customer requirements and work with them to install, configure, educate and train. Their success is our success.

Why this role matters: We’re looking for a talented Professional Services Consultant to deliver outstanding client solutions. Your role will include scoping client requirements, uncovering what customer experience problems need solving, and managing multiple project delivery with the added opportunity of global travel. The primary role of the Professional Services Consultant is to provide solution implementation services, integration development, training, and associated consulting. Given the nature of the job, the Consultant must be able to work both independently and in a team. The successful PS Consultant will quickly inspire the customer’s confidence in Vonage's services and solutions through his/her product knowledge, applications expertise, creativity, integrity, responsiveness, and effective communication.

Your key responsibilities:

• Directing early solution consideration around gaps/risks, including the effective engagement of executives, Sales, Development, and Product Management.
• Actively contribute to broader goals and growth beyond the scope of a single project by building relationships with both internal and external clients.
• Create, review and manage project direction, approach and key deliverables.
• Provide guidance to the client in making the right choice.
• Lead and direct the project implementation activities with a goal of maximizing the customer’s learning and ownership of the various tasks.
• Lead major portions of large or medium engagements and lead small engagements autonomously.
• Deployment of NVM/Vonage network monitoring tools onto a customer network to measure VOIP attributes such as latency, jitter and packet loss.
• Audit of the customers environment to ensure that it can meet all the Vonage technical prerequisites and support the NVM/Vonage solution.
• Troubleshoot and resolve Network and Telephony settings as required.
• Perform remote and on-site application configuration and support, including activities such as implementation of new features, system upgrades or migrations, implementation of real-time and historical reporting, or Salesforce.com configuration.
• Identify and proactively manage key risk areas.
• Perform application discoveries, solution design, and product configuration to customer specific requirements.
• Train customers in the use of product.
• Recognize opportunities for Vonage to expand its presence in targeted markets and communicate sales leads to the appropriate account management.
• Performance of all duties to maximize client satisfaction and growth of business by generating client-billable activities and achieving a target utilization levels.
• Continually grow your value by increasing your skills, knowledge and ability in leading edge technologies consistent with our business focus.

What you'll bring:

• The ability to perform in a fast pace environment and possess the organizational skills to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines effectively.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills that can be applied in a fast moving environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Superior presentation and facilitation skills.
• Proven ability to train customers in software applications.
• Keen to work in a client-focused environment.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member, taking direction when necessary.
• Willingness to keep management appraised of potential areas of concern, escalating when necessary.
• Ability to complete administrative tasks consistently and on time.
• Driver’s license and be willing and able to travel at short notice.

Required:

• Experience of working as an implementation consultant deploying software solutions.
• Experience operating in a professional services capacity, ideally serving clients directly.
• Knowledge of Contact Center Software such as Automatic Call Distribution, Call Recording, Management Reporting and Workforce Management.
• Salesforce CRM, Contact Center Operations, Cloud technologies, SaaS solutions, VoIP.

How you’ll benefit:

• Private Medical Insurance, Dental Cover, Group Pension Plan, Group Income Protection, Group Life Insurance, Unlimited DTO.
• Additional benefits and perks will be shared and discussed with you by the recruiter during the interview process.

There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.

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Who we are: Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.

Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.