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Solutions Engineer

This customer-facing role leads discovery, solution design, and tailored demonstrations for CPG customers, focusing on trade promotion and complex financial workflows. It requires at least three years of solutions-oriented experience, strong communication skills, and familiarity with ERP systems, integrations, and SaaS applications.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Lead business and solution discovery with Account Executives to understand customer workflows, pain points, priorities, and desired outcomes.
  • Deliver tailored demonstrations connecting platform capabilities to customer problems and business outcomes.
  • Solution across trade promotion planning, deductions, accruals, forecasting, reporting, profitability, and related CPG workflows.
  • Translate complex customer processes into future-state workflows.
  • Engage stakeholders across Sales, Accounting, Finance, Operations, IT, and executive leadership.
  • Understand customers’ technology and data environments, including ERP systems, retailer and distributor data, syndicated data, and related systems.
  • Partner with Integration Solutions Engineering on technical discovery and integration feasibility.
  • Identify implementation dependencies, solution gaps, risks, and customer-readiness considerations before closing.
  • Align proposed solutions and customer expectations with platform capabilities.
  • Document workflows, requirements, assumptions, decisions, and commitments, and provide structured handoffs to Solution Architecture after closing.
  • Develop reusable demonstrations, discovery frameworks, solution patterns, and enablement.
  • Share CPG expertise and recurring customer feedback with Product, Customer Experience, and Sales.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Solutions Engineering, Solutions Consulting, or a similar customer-facing solution role.
  • Experience solutioning complex business, commercial, or financial workflows.
  • Strong communication, presentation, consultative discovery, and storytelling skills.
  • Ability to understand business operations, identify underlying problems, and recommend improved approaches.
  • Experience working with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, QuickBooks, or similar platforms.
  • Technical curiosity regarding integrations, APIs, data flows, and system dependencies.
  • Ability to learn and demonstrate complex SaaS applications quickly.
  • Ability to work independently, adapt to changing priorities, and create structure in ambiguous environments.
  • Strong judgment about when to involve Product, Integrations, Solution Architecture, or other subject-matter experts.

Nice-to-haves

  • Consumer packaged goods industry experience.
  • Trade Promotion Management experience.
  • Experience with revenue, accounting, forecasting, payments, or financial reporting workflows.
  • Experience as a Solutions Engineer, Solutions Consultant, Sales Engineer, Implementation Consultant, or with TPM/RGM technology.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Compensation details are not provided.

Skills

Trade Promotion Management, ERP Systems, NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, Quickbooks, APIs, Data Flows, SaaS, Forecasting, Financial Reporting, Revenue Management, Deductions Management, Accruals

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