Technical Solutions Manager
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Summary: Leads Professional Services technical sales support efforts to align with customers, define elegant solutions to complex problems, accurately navigate scoping and estimating activities, and ensure a seamless transition to the Delivery team.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage multiple sales opportunities through a structured sales plan, proposal and Statements of Work, efficiently managing cost of sale and optimizing the close rate of deals worked.
- Qualify PS opportunities based on Customer’s identified pain, “after scenarios,” positive business outcomes and required capabilities. Work with Solutions Engineers and Sales to clarify these items where needed.
- Work with Acquia sales and customers to:
- Evaluate existing client architectural models and perform/drive in-depth analysis of systems, data flows processes, and architectural trade-offs
- Understand resource capabilities, business processes, business strategy, and use long term thinking to help evaluate current and drive future-state architectural models.
- Define solution roadmap, identify requirements and use cases as inputs to implementation plans and estimations.
- Create proposal assets summing PS proposed engagement and Acquia products used, including solution summary and benefits, timeline, resource profile, assumptions, and cost.
- Assist Sales in compiling proposal documentation.
- Work cross functionally with peers/colleagues globally to support training, best practices, and shared opportunities.
- Continuously innovate and improve processes in an effort to optimize program efficiencies; solicit and act on feedback and communicate changes effectively.
- Ad Hoc duties as assigned.
Key requirements:
- 8+ years in Operations, Strategic Planning, Project Implementation and Consulting, Pre-sales and presentation skills
- Prior experience defining technology solutions to Fortune 500 customers
- Demonstrated ability to translate requirements into recommended solutions for implementation team with full risk assessment. Experience with CDPs and/or Marketing Automation a plus
- Advanced Technical Certifications, marketing technology background or data engineering implementation experience. Acquia certifications a plus.
- Understanding of Martech data science and its application.
- Excellent systems documentation and architecture diagram skills with thorough understanding of systems architecture, engineering, administration, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, preventative maintenance and security procedures.
- Demonstrated success in creating/maintaining relationships with senior technical leaders.
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