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About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of 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.

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

As a Solution Engineer, also known as a "Presales Consultant," "Sales Consultant", ”Pre -Sales Engineer” or “Sales Engineer”, you'll be a key player in the sales cycle, delivering thought leadership and owning solutions to enhance our customers' experience. You'll collaborate with colleagues, support our sales team, and translate business objectives into compelling recommendations. With your technical and sales skills, you'll present our product offerings, address objections, and inspire confidence in our technology infrastructure.

The Solution Engineer for Consumer Goods will act as a trusted advisor to our customers while aiding the customer’s transformational journey.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead the entire solution cycle through close collaboration with other teams.
• Understand the customer’s needs, and establish Salesforce’s product as the best solution that solves unique challenges
• Convey a deep understanding of the client’s industry and technology as it pertains to Salesforce’s solutions
• Develop and deliver innovative custom solutions, build and present customized demos of Salesforce products including solution concepts to key decision-makers to address their business issues and needs showing business value.
• Understand and contribute to the Consumer Goods Go To Market propositions bringing innovation to the conversation for our customers
• Participate in all appropriate product, sales, and procedural training and certifications to acquire and maintain the knowledge vital to be effective in the position
• Attain quarterly and annual objectives assigned by management
• Respond efficiently to RFPs
• Lead the technical side of the sales cycle
• Have a strong curiosity about growing your career and participating in our internal training programs and mentorship initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience implementing Digital Transformation strategies and delivering increased success to their customers.
• Track record of solution engineering, consultancy, delivery, or training success for an enterprise software solution organization. We are open to a variety of backgrounds for the role.
• Proven oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication and relationship skills.
• Proven time management skills in a dynamic team environment.
• Ability to work as part of a team to tackle problems in dynamic, energizing environments.
• Inquisitive, practical, and passionate about technology and sharing knowledge.
• Loves to be the first to know something and to understand why and how things happen.
• Good at searching out information and experimenting, love to concentrate on a particular topic, and tackle puzzles.
• Good at explaining ideas and finding ways to keep people’s attention.
• Willing and able to travel occasionally
• Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Salesforce Product knowledge and certifications
• Deep understanding of the business requirements of customers within the Consumer Goods industry and being knowledgeable of industry-specific solutions & processes

Benefits & Perks
Check out our benefits site which explains our various benefits, including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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