Security Pre-sales Consultant

  • Gleeson Recruitment Group
  • City, Manchester
  • Jul 27, 2025
Full time Sales & Marketing

Job Description


The Role
We're looking for a dynamic Pre-Sales Cyber Security Consultant to join our clients growing Security division. You'll work closely with Account Managers and Post-Sales teams to shape customers' cybersecurity strategies, deliver high-impact technical solutions, and help protect organisations against the evolving threat landscape.
This is your opportunity to make a real difference in a key technical role within one of the UK's fastest-growing IT providers.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Act as a subject matter expert on cybersecurity and emerging threats.
  • Lead solution design and technical strategy for clients across a wide range of sectors.
  • Deliver whiteboard sessions and client workshops to define tailored security solutions.
  • Support customers during incidents and contribute to response strategies.
  • Create technical documentation and provide trusted guidance to customers.
  • Conduct enablement sessions for internal sales teams, partners, and clients.
  • Engage with customers alongside sales to overcome technical challenges.
  • Maintain vendor certifications relevant to the security portfolio.
  • Collaborate across teams (Cloud, Networking, etc.) to ensure integrated solutions.
  • Drive innovation and improvement in cyber security service offering.

What You'll Bring

  • 2+ years in Pre-Sales, Cybersecurity or similar technical consultancy role (MSP/reseller experience preferred).
  • Strong understanding of incident response, SOC operations, and endpoint security.
  • Familiarity with security standards (ISO27002, CIS, NIST, CAF).
  • Experience with technologies such as SSE, SASE, SIEM, MDR/EDR.
  • Confident in customer-facing engagements and solution design.
  • Excellent communication, documentation and stakeholder management skills.
  • Engineer certifications in security platforms - an advantage.

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