Lead or Principal, Account Solution Engineer

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Sales

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We are thrilled to offer an exceptional opportunity for a visionary Presales professional to join our team, focused on revolutionizing the Retail and Consumer Goods vertical in Mumbai, India This role presents an exciting chance to collaborate with a rapidly expanding and dynamic industry, showcasing the innovative capabilities of Salesforce applications and platforms. We are seeking a candidate who is not only proficient in Presales but is also deeply passionate about driving impactful change and fostering continuous learning and personal growth.

- The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of partnering with Retail and Consumer Goods organizations to drive tangible business outcomes through cutting-edge technology solutions. They should possess a keen ability to engage with both business and technology leaders at the highest levels, effectively communicating the transformative power of Salesforce.
- More than just presenting features, we are looking for someone who can passionately articulate the profound business value that comes from embracing change and leveraging Salesforce as a strategic partner in this journey towards digital transformation.If you are an innovative thinker who is enthusiastic about your work, dedicated to ongoing learning, and driven by the prospect of personal and professional growth, we encourage you to apply.

Typical Day of a Solution Engineer:

- Strategic Partner: Collaborate closely with Sales teams to navigate territories, fostering productive relationships with prospects and existing customers.
- Insightful Discovery: Lead outcome-driven conversations to deeply understand and define customer business requirements during discovery calls.
- Visionary Solutions: Co-create future visions for customers on the Salesforce platform, aligning short and long-term goals to drive digital transformation.
- Dynamic Demonstrations: Bring visions to life through compelling product demonstrations, showcasing the versatility and potential of our platform.
- Continuous Growth: Engage in ongoing training and certification programs to expand and maintain expertise, staying ahead of industry trends.
- Feedback Champion: Act as a liaison between product and enablement teams, offering valuable field insights to drive solution evolution and enhancement.
- Trusted Advisor: Share expert perspectives on the business value provided by our solutions, building confidence and trust with potential customers.

If you're passionate about driving meaningful change, facilitating impactful conversations, and delivering innovative solutions that drive business outcomes, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of Salesforce-powered transformation.
Specific Responsibilities:

- Provide thought leadership in how large enterprise organisation can drive customer success through digital transformation.
- Ability to uncover the challenges and issues a business is facing by running successful and targeted discovery sessions and workshops.
- Be an innovator who can build new solutions using out-of-the-box thinking.
- Engage with business users to build solution presentations, demonstrations and prototypes.
- Build roadmaps that clearly articulate how partners can implement and accept solutions to move from current to future state.
- The ability to authoritatively present and articulate the business value to managers and executives of all levels.
- Deliver functional and technical responses to RFPs/RFIs.
- Work as an excellent teammate by chipping in, learning and sharing new knowledge.
- Demonstrate a conceptual knowledge of how to integrate cloud applications to existing business applications and technology.
- Lead multiple customer engagements concurrently.
- Be self-motivated, flexible, and take initiative.

Required Skills:

- Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core proficiencies or the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
- 10+ yrs of relevant experience in the IT Industry, either pre-sales or implementation of customer engagement solutions, supporting the sales cycle in selling CRM or high value business solutions.
- Relevant Industry Experience into Retail & Consumer Good
- Strong focus and experience in pre-sales or implementation is required.
- Experience in demonstrating Customer engagement solution, understand and drive use cases, customer journeys, ability to draw Day in life of across different LOBs.
- Business Analysis/ Business case/return on investment construction.
- Experience in sophisticated solution selling to Enterprise customers
- A broad understanding of and ability to articulate the benefits of Cloud Computing, SFA, Service & Support, Marketing and Mobile solutions.
- Strong verbal and written communications skills with a focus on needs analysis, positioning, business justification, and closing techniques.
- Outstanding presentation and demonstration skills.

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