Solutions Consultant

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Partner with Sales and Success teams to plan opportunity and account strategy, establishing Hootsuite as the solution and partner of choice and contributing to personal, sub-regional and regional targets.
• Contribute to the creation of successful proposals by answering questions about our solutions and how they fit with customer requirements.
• Lead discovery sessions with practitioners and team leaders to uncover key requirements, challenges and opportunities in their organization.
• Deliver concise, compelling, value-based presentations and product demos, typically up to social media leader level.
• Use creative tools and techniques such as storytelling, whiteboarding and multimedia to present solutions in a compelling, simple and memorable manner.
• Manage trials with customers and prospects to help them see the value of Hootsuite as a partner.
• Facilitate and co-facilitate customer workshops to surface the deeper business value of our partnership.
• Act as a trusted advisor to social practitioners and team leads on social strategy and the product mix that will best support their strategy.
• Share and document learnings from experiences, training and external sources with the regional Value & Solutions team to improve value delivery and customer adoption.
• Enable counterparts in Sales and Success on our product and ecosystem during onboarding programmes and when warranted by major product releases.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Ample experience in Solutions Consulting or social/agency experience.
• College or university degree/diploma (or have equivalent industry experience).
• An aptitude for explaining how solutions work, why people need them, and the business value they will provide.
• Industry knowledge in one or more of our key markets (Financial Services, Government, Higher Ed, Travel/Hospitality/Tourism, Healthcare) is desirable.
• Understands and can articulate our most common social use cases in marketing, social selling, advocacy and service.
• Knowledge of related technologies outside of our ecosystem such as media production, adtech, martech.
• Experience in communicating project plans to potential customers.
• Experience of solution selling and consultative selling approaches.
• Clear, concise, and creative presentation skills with competence in storytelling, and the ability to focus on the business value of the solution.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Works with others to deliver results.