Senior Solution Consultant

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Manufacturing • Education

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Solution Consultant leads workstreams in enterprise customer engagements, partnering with stakeholders to achieve project vision. They act as hands-on advisors, leveraging interpersonal skills, solution/technical knowledge, Salesforce product expertise, industry experience, and client business understanding to deliver customer ROI. Strong presentation and facilitation skills are crucial for co-creating vision and execution. They drive difficult conversations, remove roadblocks, analyze issues, and identify corrective actions. Daily interactions involve understanding requirements, analyzing information, and crafting solutions with customer product owners, business process owners, and technical resources. They show a strong understanding of typical business challenges. They are stewards of the Professional Services Methodology, ensuring best practices and collaborating with Customer Success and Product teams. Contributions to thought leadership and best practices within internal communities and externally in the marketplace are expected.
Must have:
  • Proven experience in enterprise-level projects using waterfall and agile methodologies.
  • Extensive experience with Salesforce platform configuration and customization.
  • Expert-level experience defining system architecture, identifying gaps, and delivering comprehensive solutions.
  • Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories, and providing detailed system and functional designs.
  • Experience detailing business processes and wire-framing using process flow diagrams, UML, sequence diagrams, etc.
Good to have:
  • Agile approach experience delivering high-value business outcomes.
  • Leading customer/partner success stories.
  • Relevant Salesforce certifications and consulting experience.
Perks:
  • Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits
  • World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com
  • Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching
  • Volunteer opportunities

Job Details

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts.

Job Category

Customer Success

Job Details

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Although all qualified candidates are invited to apply and will be given equal consideration, this vacancy is preferably intended for women (regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, age, race or ethnicity, and disability).

The Senior Solution Consultant leads one or more workstreams in enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key stakeholders to achieve the vision while completing key work. They serve as hands-on advisors, using strong interpersonal skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer ROI.

They are strong presenters and facilitators that are able to co-create the vision and lead the execution with the customer and obtain customer acceptance of the delivered solution. They are capable of driving difficult conversations and removing roadblocks to implement the business strategies. They are proficient at analyzing issues and obstacles to resolve root cause, and can identify appropriate corrective action. They connect with technical and business stakeholders from all levels through C-suite. On a day to day basis, they interact with customer product owners, business process owners and technical resources to understand requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges or common objectives faced by customers within the industry.

They are also stewards of the Professional Services Methodology and use their networks to ensure that best practices are followed. They engage with Customer Success and Product teams to ensure the solutions are driving the most effective achievement of the value objectives. Senior Solution Consultants contribute to thought leadership and best practices by engaging with the cloud-specific practices teams. They will contribute both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace.

Your Impact

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the client

  • Identify and lead internal critical initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serve as an active contributor to the community’s overall knowledge base and expertise

  • Guide customers and colleagues in rationalizing and deploying new technologies that drive increased business value

  • Work collaboratively and having very strong communications skills, especially in teaching complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking across various levels of a client organization

  • Identify and proactively handle risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution

  • Manage customer expectations; find solutions to complex problems with both the customer and third-party partners

  • Review and accurate project/program direction, approach, and key artifacts to keep programs on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward

  • Drive a program vision while advising and articulating program/project strategies to enable technologies including the Salesforce platform

Minimum Requirements

  • Proven experience in enterprise-level projects using both waterfall and agile software development methodologies throughout the whole life cycle with repeated and demonstrable success

  • Extensive experience with configuration and customization on the Salesforce platform

  • Expert level experience defining the system architecture landscape, identifying gaps between current and desired end-states, and delivering a comprehensive solution that will enable achievement of the desired business outcomes

  • Experience leading discovery sessions, defining business requirements, writing user stories and providing detailed system and functional designs

  • Experience in detailing business processes and wire-framing system designs using process flow diagram tools, UML, sequence diagrams, etc. as well as making recommendations for future state improved processes and system designs

  • Possible travel of about 25%, but exact travel requirements will vary based on customer.


Preferred Requirements

  • Shown results in delivering high value business outcomes using an agile approach

  • Shown results leading customer and/or partner success stories

  • Relevant Salesforce certifications and consulting experience are strongly recommended

Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

NOTE: By applying to the Solution Consultant posting, recruiters and hiring managers across the organization hiring Solution Consultants will review your resume. Our goal is for you to apply once and have your resume reviewed by multiple hiring teams.

BENEFITS & PERKS

  • Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!

  • World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com

  • Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership

  • Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community

  • For more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/

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