NICE - Portfolio Sales Engineering Manager – Western & Northern Europe

• The Portfolio Sales Engineering Manager is a confident storyteller and hands-on leader with a strong background in solution selling and enterprise software. You will lead by example, eliminate sales obstacles through creative and adaptive approaches, and ensure consistent technical excellence across complex sales opportunities.This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing people leadership, portfolio ownership and direct customer engagement, and who has a strong technical foundation with a customer-first mindset. • Lead and manage with vision and hands-on expertise across Agentic Experience Autonomation, Workforce Empowerment and CX Engagement Orchestration solutions to deliver exceptional experiences for customers, partners, and prospects. • Motivate and coach by example, actively engaging in strategic and high-value opportunities • Lead the technical aspects of the sales process across discovery, solution design, demonstrations, and validation • Ensure customer business challenges are clearly understood and mapped to value-driven NiCE portfolio solutions • Own and elevate the technical sales motion for complex, enterprise AI opportunities. • Act as an executive-level storyteller, translating customer business outcomes into compelling AI-driven solution narratives. • Coach and mentor pre-sales teams to operate confidently at both strategic and technical depth. • Provide timely and high-quality support for RFIs, RFPs, and customer technical inquiries • Guide proof of concepts (POCs) including success criteria, AI evaluation metrics, and value realization. • Build strong relationships with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders • Provide structured feedback to Product and R&D based on customer and market insights to influence the product roadmap • Have you got what it takes? • Proven leadership experience in pre-sales, solution consulting, or technical sales within enterprise software or SaaS. • Strong hands-on experience with Conversational AI, Agent Assist, digital agents, or AI-driven CX platforms. • Deep understanding of AI concepts such as intent recognition, dialog management, NLP/LLMs, automation workflows, and model performance KPIs. • Exceptional storytelling and presentation skills with executive credibility. • Ability to translate abstract AI capabilities into concrete, business-driven outcomes. • Comfortable operating across C-level, technical architects, and operational leaders. • Experience managing multiple complex opportunities concurrently.