Senior Pre-Sales Consultant – eCommerce SaaS – London

The Company

One of the fastest growing eCommerce platforms on the market, are expanding their UK presence! Through continuous funding and a number of key new business wins in the UK and Europe, they are now looking to hire a Senior Pre-Sales Consultant to assist the UK Country Manager.

Currently working with large enterprise clients, such as United Colours of Benetton, True Religion and Everything£5, the business is continuing to grow with more exciting opportunities on the horizon. With a strong financial backing, partnered with an amazing product that can not only act as a sole eCommerce platform, but can also act as a partner to existing large scale eCommerce platforms, they envision the UK office to grow by over 200% this year!

The Role

As a Senior Pre-Sales Consultant, you will be responsible of working closely with the UK Country Manager on making sure each new business prospect is fully closed on the platform’s capabilities from a technical standpoint and understands the possibilities of integrating the product with their existing eCommerce solution. You will be acting as an evangelist for the product in the UK!

This is an exciting role to work with enterprise clients within the retail and ecommerce sector – this will include some work for international projects. Considering the amazing growth forecasted for this year, being successful in this position would put you in a great position to grow out a team over the next 18-24 months.

• Qualifying a client’s needs based on driving factors and a business’s pain points.
• Identifying and putting together a trusted solution based around the products the business can provide their client.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients and prospects, in order to work closely with their clients on their businesses requirements.
• Work with Account Managers to define value and provide in depth propositions and project delivery.
• Active participation in scoping and executing client Proofs of Concept (POCs).
• Collaborative working with internal teams (technology, logistics, professional services, etc.) to help design and communicate best-fit solutions.
• Understand and participate in performance management processes.
• Work with Delivery Consultants to design ad-hoc, innovative solutions.

The Candidate

The successful Senior Pre-Sales Consultant will possess the following skills and experience:

• 3+ years’ experience in solutions consulting/ sales engineering for complex enterprise solutions, more specifically within eCommerce.
• Strong relationship building and client facing skills.
• Graduate level of a 2:1 or above, ideally in Computer Science, Maths or a Business discipline.
• Understanding of web-based applications and SaaS technologies.
• Logical approach to delivery and working on client’s requirements, to realise how they align with the company’s current proposition.
• Have worked previously on global requirements with eCommerce outlets and large retailers.
• Good understanding of the SaaS market, Ideally within data solutions.

To be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please send a copy of your CV to cknights@welovesalt.com in the first instance.