Senior Solutions Consultant - Retail

Board; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 127,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Senior Solutions Consultant to drive innovation in the retail sector. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage with large enterprise clients, identify their challenges, and present tailored solutions that enhance their operational efficiency. With a focus on collaboration and customer-centric strategies, this position is perfect for those who thrive in fast-paced environments and are passionate about leveraging advanced analytics to transform businesses. Join a company that values diverse perspectives and fosters professional growth while making a significant impact in the retail industry.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in retail presales or consulting.
• Experience with merchandise and supply planning.
• Ability to demonstrate thought leadership.

Responsibilities

• Engage with enterprise prospects to identify business pain points.
• Provide tailored presentations and demos of Board Solutions.
• Collaborate with sales teams on RFP/RFI completion.

Skills

Retail Planning Processes

Presentation Skills

Client Relationship Management

Consultative Selling

Multi-dimensional Planning Models

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

BI or Analytics Tools (e.g., Board, Anaplan)

Job description

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At Board, we power financial and operational planning solutions for the world’s best brands. Thousands of enterprises use our technology to optimize resources, drive growth, and ensure profitability. With advanced analytics and forecasting, plus AI-driven insights, customers transform complex, real-time data into actionable intelligence.

What’s been key to our success? Our people—we value everyone’s unique perspective and energy they bring to the organization. We collaborate openly across teams and borders. We embrace a growth mindset to get results. And we celebrate shared success as goals and milestones are achieved.

Ready to join a team where innovation meets collaboration? If you're driven by bold ideas and a customer-centric mentality, your next adventure starts here!

Board International is currently looking for a highly talented, self-motivated, and analytically minded Senior Solutions Consultant to join our Pre-Sales team. This role will focus on Board’s retail industry segment in North America.

This role provides an ideal opportunity to join a fast-growing organization with a product at the technological forefront of its market and plenty of opportunities to foster professional growth. As a Senior Solutions Consultant, you enjoy helping people solve complex problems and love showing people how BOARD Solutions and Platform can generate value and help their businesses.

Your Impact:

• Engaging with targeted, large enterprise prospects to identify suboptimal business processes, related pain points and become a trusted business partner that will elevate the business’ current practices and create efficiencies in complex use-cases
• Partner with industry solutions and Sales Team to better understand and talk to the industry and target company challenges
• Provide Customer-tailored, strategic, senior level Board Platform and Solutions presentations as well as demonstrations, to convey BOARD’s value proposition;
• Together with the Sales Team, contribute to RFP/RFI completion, develop and execute brilliant Board Solution Demos, Proof of Concepts/Value for prospects or existing customers within the Core industries;
• Assist and Cross-training teammates and Partners in fostering their knowledge on BOARD Solution and Subject expertise;
• Creating product and Solutions awareness in the marketplace
• Ensure a strong technical fit in the Board SaaS and technical offerings to the client’s analytical needs
• Document and transition deal knowledge to help ensure a successful transition to the implementation team for all winning proposals
• Collaborating with solutions teams on customer and market requirements is essential for seamless communication and effective strategy implementation.

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a retail (presales) capacity and/or retail consulting
• Proven experience in retail planning processes; planning applications is a must.
• Experience with Merchandise Planning, Supply Planning, Optimization, and retail areas is preferred.
• Ability to demonstrate thought leadership and develop credibility with prospects and existing customers as a trusted-advisor in the planning space.
• Excellent presentation, storytelling, client relationship, and interpersonal skills- internally and externally.
• Ability to take a consultative selling approach by listening to customer needs and shaping a shared vision for a solution.
• Experience with multi-dimensional planning models, BI or Analytics (Board, Anaplan, Pigment, Blue Yonder, o9, etc)
• Growth mentality and comfortable in challenging old ways of doing things.
  

Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Join a company that believes in the added value of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We foster a working environment in which all people are respected and valued, for all aspects which make them unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

• Industries

  Financial Services, Software Development, and Technology, Information and Internet

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