Implementation Consultant designing and implementing Upshop’s AI-powered retail operations SaaS solutions. Advising grocery and convenience-store customers on requirements, roadmaps, demos, and adoption.
Responsibilities
Engage directly with customers individually or as part of the sales team
Oversee and advise on implementation of customers’ Upshop platform
Develop solution architectures and implementation recommendations
Act as a trusted advisor to customer executive leadership
Extract business requirements and translate them into well-architected recommendations
Develop future-state guidance and roadmaps
Leverage best practices and solutions to reduce implementation risk
Decompose future-state goals into actionable execution plans
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align customers with Upshop goals
Serve as subject matter expert on Upshop’s Customer Journey and platforms
Attend weekly team meetings, onsite team workshops, sales events, and trade shows as scheduled
Stay current on industry trends, product enhancements, internal learning, and competitive intelligence
Maintain demo environment scenarios
Partner with sales to understand customer requirements and challenges
Gather information to address needs and gaps
Help build business cases and potential ROI analyses
Recommend designs/configurations aligned with customer objectives
Demo compelling solutions and present desired future states with measurable outcomes
Lead and document discovery sessions and advise customers on implementation best practices
Present solution visions that drive adoption and growth
Assist with scoping SOWs and draft SOW deliverables
Lead scoping calls and recommend scope to customers and the revenue team
Ensure solutions are correctly implemented with internal and customer teams
Provide guidance throughout the sales process
Provide detailed handoffs to Project Teams and Customer Success Managers
Requirements
Ability to explain complex concepts clearly and understandably
Excellent presentation and communication skills, including software demonstrations and communicating product value
Aptitude for finding solutions to meet customer needs based on Upshop modules
Ability to collaborate with customers and internal teams
Customer-focused approach to understanding and addressing customer needs
3+ years of relevant solutions or sales consulting experience
Experience in a retail operation, presales, or implementation consulting role at a SaaS company managing large enterprise customers
Experience in customer support, including PowerPoint presentations, RFP responses, scripted and unscripted demos, business case development, leading discovery design sessions and/or implementation
In-depth understanding of multiple retail enterprise solutions, especially POS, OMS, Sales Audit, CRM/Loyalty, Merchandising, Allocation & Replenishment, and Analytics
Familiarity with CRM, Marketing Automation, Business Intelligence, and Social Media
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