Pre-Sales Software Planner

Role Overview

Siemens Healthineers is looking for a Pre-Sales Software Planner to support the Sales and Project Management functions within the APJ CPO Software Planning team. The role focuses on pre-project planning support, technical coordination, and customer-facing discussions for healthcare IT environments.

What You Will Do

• Handle standard planning requests on your own by following established software planning workflows, tools, and templates, with limited supervision.
• Lead and facilitate infrastructure discussions that may involve clinical, IT, CIO-level, and hospital executive stakeholders.
• Carry out independent quote quality checks, review customer expectations in detail, and coordinate follow-up with the Sales team.
• Build early-stage client confidence by consistently delivering strong outputs and setting realistic expectations before a project begins.
• Ensure that responses, escalations, and solutions are aligned with regulatory, quality, safety, and contractual requirements while remaining cost-effective.
• Support high-visibility accounts and projects, including Luminary, Strategic, Complex, and similarly important customers.
• Take on additional responsibilities assigned by the Direct Manager as needed.

Required Background

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred, along with 3 to 5 years of experience working with software solutions in multi-vendor healthcare IT environments.
• Solid understanding of network architecture, security systems, software control systems, and server administration.
• Experience creating system topology diagrams in Visio to present a customer’s technical setup clearly.
• Hands-on exposure to planning, overseeing, and resolving software and IT infrastructure deployments, especially in healthcare settings.
• Prior work with cloud implementations and virtualized server platforms is an advantage.
• Oncology service-line experience, especially with Varian products, is highly desirable.
• PMP certification and telecommunications experience are preferred.
• Strong spoken and written communication abilities, along with a customer-focused approach.
• Comfortable leading remote conference calls in a professional and effective manner.
• Skilled in Outlook, Microsoft Project, Visio, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.

Additional Requirements

• Working hours may vary depending on hospital schedules, and you should be open to weekend work or hours outside the standard business day.
• You must represent Varian with professionalism, confidence, and strong belief in the company and its products.
• Ability to collaborate across Varian teams to support cooperation and issue resolution.
• Willingness to travel within and outside APJ when required.
• Willingness to attend training for several weeks outside APJ if needed.

About Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers is a global medical technology leader with more than 72,000 employees across over 70 countries. The organization is focused on improving patient outcomes and care experiences through innovation in clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

Work Culture

The company promotes an inclusive, diverse, and supportive environment where employees are encouraged to grow personally and professionally. Team members come from varied backgrounds and work together with a shared mission to advance healthcare access and outcomes worldwide.

Equal Opportunity and Compliance

Siemens Healthineers welcomes applications from candidates with disabilities. The company also takes data privacy seriously and emphasizes compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws. Applicants are asked not to email resumes directly and to use a profile-based application process instead.

Fraud and Recruitment Notice

Candidates should be cautious of fraudulent recruitment activity or fake job postings from individuals impersonating Siemens Healthineers recruiters or employees. The company also states that it does not accept agency resumes and will not be responsible for fees tied to unsolicited submissions.