Shifting to pre-sales or sales consulting

Krishna wrote:

Hi

I need advice related to shifting to pre-sales or sales consulting from Product Management (or Development). Please let me know your advice.

Below is the brief resume for your perusal.

• 7 Years Experience at SAP AG and in total 9 years experience in IT
• More than 4 Years Financial Product Management in SAP Mid-market Solution
• Financial Solution defined in Payment, AP, AR, Treasury (Roll-in from Customer)
• Financial Service - Banking Product Development Experience
• Multi-Cultural Team Co-ordination Experience
• 1 year Experience in Marketing
• Studied Engineering with Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (Major: Marketing)
• Strong Communication and Client Facing Skills

Thank you and best regards

KK

A consultant in WH Marks Sattin's management consultancy team replied:

My advice would be that going down the consulting route, you would need to look at leveraging the strong experience that you have gained in the past and particularly in the recent past. A Product Management orientated consulting role may not be what you are specifically looking for but in order to get into a Consulting role at your current career stage, you need to be utilizing your strongest and most applicable skills. There will be a lot of learning and development that you will need to do in a Consulting role so in the short term, you need to apply your strongest skills.

Management Consultancy as a long term goal would be something that would broaden your horizons in terms of the skills that you will develop and the avenues that this type of work will open to you. When making that initial transition however, I would encourage you to think about the long term plan and benefits.

I hope that helps. Best of luck

WH Marks Sattin

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