Solutions Consultant
Craft solution strategies to help businesses address customer needs.
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What's it like to be a Solutions Consultant?
Solutions Consultants engage with customers to understand their needs then use their expertise in business processes and project management to advise businesses on strategic, operational, and technical issues to address these needs. Consultants liaise with the different departments and work with stakeholders to define requirements and success criteria. Finally, they craft and communicate functional or technical solutions to meet these requirements.
Tasks and duties
- Liaising with product management, engineering, services, marketing, and support teams.
- Meeting with stakeholders and discussing expectations and success metrics.
- Conducting interviews and workshops with stakeholders, subject matter experts, and the development team.
- Understanding customer needs.
- Identifying strategic or technical issues.
- Communicating strategy and objectives.
- Designing and engineering adaptations of products and services to address customer needs.
- Advising on resource planning, vendor management, and outsourcing.
- Reporting on project progress.
- Providing cost estimates.
- Briefing and providing training on proposed solutions.
- Documenting business requirements, use cases, processes, and applications to technical solutions.
Solutions Consultants have strong problem-solving and communication skills. They provide guidance and leadership to help businesses reach their goals. As such, they need to be continuously learning and stay up-to-date on advances in business practices and emerging technologies. Solutions Consultants can specialise in financial, information technology, or new business.
How to become a Solutions Consultant
To become a Solutions Consultant, you need a strong educational background as well as industry experience.
- Complete a bachelor and masters degree in the field you want to specialise in. Degrees in business, computer science, engineering, accounting, education, design, or marketing can lead to careers in consulting.
- Gain relevant experience and establish a strong network. Employers usually look for a minimum of five years of experience and strong technical skills.
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Latest Solutions Consultant reviews
Nov 2022
Reviewer's Qualification
Bachelor of Information Technology (Business Systems)
Experience
10+ years
Organisation size
Medium (20-199 employees)
The good things
Manage to work globally and know new friends
The challenges
Regional role which cause working time longer
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