Solution Consultant/Senior Solution Consultant (PubSec)

Socket.dev; Toronto; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Solution Consultant to support enterprise engagements, partnering with teams to deliver customer ROI. You’ll act as a hands-on advisor, translating client needs into actionable solutions and leading architecture discussions.

You will work with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, and clients to design technology solutions that meet business goals, with travel up to 25% and a focus on delivering value across complex programs.

Qualifications

• Strong presentation skills and ability to communicate to diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to rapidly learn new concepts, business models, and technologies.
• Travel up to 25% based on client needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to the client.
• Collaborate with team on internal initiatives to grow the practice.
• Guide customers in deploying new technologies that drive value.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
• Identify and address risks to keep projects on track.
• Design technology solutions with clients and delivery teams.

Skills

Strong presentation skills

Excellent communication

Active listening

Problem solving

Adaptability

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Technology/Engineering or related fields

Job description

Job Category

Customer Success

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.

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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.

Role Description

The Senior Solution Consultant supports a work stream in sophisticated enterprise customer engagements, partnering with key collaborators to achieve the vision while completing key deliverables. They serve as hands‑on advisors, using strong social skills, solution and/or technical knowledge, Salesforce product knowledge, industry experience, consulting experience, and knowledge of their client’s business to deliver customer return on investment.

Senior Solution Consultants are strong presenters that are able to obtain customer acceptance by demonstrating solutions and an understanding of the client's vision. They can identify key risks or issues and are confident in handling difficult conversations with their team and customer to address them. They interact with customer product owners, business process owners and technical resources to understand capabilities and requirements, analyze information, and craft comprehensive solutions. They also show a strong understanding of typical business challenges faced by customers and common objectives. They supply thought leadership and standard processes, both internally in their Community and externally in the marketplace.

Your Impact

Salesforce Professional Services is looking for a Senior Solution Consultant. You will be serving as a Salesforce product and platform guide to the company’s largest, most complex enterprise customers. Here are some salient responsibilities the role entails:

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the client
• Participate as a part of a team working on internal critical initiatives to grow the consulting practice; serving 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 guiding complex concepts, and creative, prescriptive thinking
• Identify and proactively handle risk areas and commit to seeing an issue through to complete resolution
• Handle customer expectations; negotiate solutions to sophisticated problems with both the customer and third-party partners
• Review and correct key artifacts to keep projects on track and solutions extendable and maintainable going forward
• Work closely with Delivery Managers, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, and directly with clients to design technology solutions to meet client needs
• Contribute to the creation of a program vision/case creation and justification, and be responsible for the monitoring and delivery of these elements throughout the program's lifecycle while advising and articulating program/project strategies on enabling technologies including the Salesforce Platform

Minimum Requirements

• Strong presentation skills; able to successfully present a point of view and clearly articulate the rationale to a variety of collaborators
• Meticulous individual with the ability to rapidly learn and take advantage of new concepts, business models, and technologies
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal; able to effectively develop materials that are appropriate for the audience
• A great listener with the ability to connect with people in diverse roles
• Consistent track record to analyze, design, and optimize business processes via technology and integration
• Resourceful and high-reaching thinker who can work through and solve problems
• Travel is an integral part of this role, and will be based on individual customer needs. 25% travel.
  

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technology, Engineering (any field) or a related quantitative subject area. Equivalent validated work experience in lieu of a degree will be considered
• Confirmed results translating business user stories into technical requirements documents
• Confirmed results leading customer and/or partner success
• Relevant Salesforce certifications and consulting experience are strongly recommended

Accommodations

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Posting Statement

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. For Ontario-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is CAD 74,600 to CAD 124,600 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable. This posting is to fill a vacancy on our team, unless otherwise noted.