As a member of our Solution Consulting team, you will have a major impact on our future success by supporting Customer Workflow & Industry Solution Sales. You will guide revenue for one of our  products with the support and partnership of Sales, Product Management, and the executive team. This is a hands-on technical consultant who can go wide and deep on solution delivery and solution positioning during sales cycles.

What you get to do in this role:  

The Solution Consultant is a technical consultant with the advanced ability to develop, position and provide product-specific solutions during sales cycles while achieving quarterly and annual sales goals for an assigned territory.

• Support product sales as a technical and domain expert of a client-facing sales team that pursues customers and prospects across multiple industry markets
• Lead discovery workshops to determine customers' challenges and give product demonstrations to align our solution with customer needs
• Develop client partner relationships
• Guide strategic programs in top accounts such as customer journey sessions for roadmap and outcome agreement
• Provide feedback to product management about product enhancements that can address customer needs and provide additional value
• Share and learn best practices and re-usable assets with other Solution Consultants to enhance the quality and efficiency of the team
• Stay current on competitive analysis and market differentiation
• Support marketing events including executive briefings, conferences, user groups, and trade shows

What you get to do in this role:

Imagine a world where every business runs at the speed of now.

As a Director of Solution Consulting, Customer & Industry Workflows, you'll play a pivotal role in making this a reality. 

You'll lead a high-performing team of Solution Consultants, hungry to innovate and humble enough to learn from every interaction.

Together, you'll wow our customers by developing and delivering cutting-edge solutions that transform how businesses operate. You'll foster a team environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives.

Key Focus:

• Hungry: Continuously push boundaries and exceed customer expectations.
• Humble: Embrace feedback and learn from every internal and external experience.
• Wow Our Customers: Deliver exceptional experiences and  outcomes that exceed expectations.
• Create Belonging & Win as a Team: Build a high-performing and inclusive team that thrives on collaboration and celebrates shared success.

Job Description

The Role

We are looking for a motivated and ambitious leader to grow and manage our Enterprise Customer & Indsutry Workflow Solution Sales Team across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). This leader must be a proven and trusted sales leader, who can influence, partner and advise across the matrix; including Solution Consulting, Sales, Alliance & Channel, Global Delivery and Marketing as well as, with our Business Units.

As the Director Solution Sales, you will be responsible for supporting the ANZ Managing Director to develop our go-to-market strategy for Customer Experience Solutions and support strategic sales opportunities across the region. You will share your knowledge and expertise to help prepare the markets for success on the road to 2025. This role will be reporting into the APJ AVP Customer Workflows and will be managing a team of Solution Sales Executives.

What you get to do in this role:

· Partner with the Managing Director ANZ and Sales Directors to make sure we achieve success

· Build and drive sales strategy and go-to-market for the region including understanding the competitive landscape, presence and strength within the region

· Align with the APJ and Global Business Unit (BU) leaders to build a plan to aggressively grow the business

· Lead and develop a team of specialized sellers to drive different solutions

· Actively engage in territory planning, relationship development and opportunity development and driving revenue by owning Solution Led opportunities and assisting Field Sales Teams in closing other opportunities

· Partner with our Alliance and Channel organization to build a sell to, with and through go-to-market model.

· Influence and drive the right value model around pricing and packaging

· Align to the global success metrics for Customer Success

· Development of territories and quota for the Solution sales team and effective communication to set performance expectations within the team

· Grow and develop a predictable business through accurate forecasting and pipeline development

· Achievement of annual sales goals on a quarterly and annual basis is required

· Engage and align effectively in C-level meetings in order to properly understand customer business requirements

· Build effective working relationships with Sales Directors, Solution Consulting, Business Units, Professional Services, Marketing, our Partner community and the ServiceNow executive team

This is an apprenticeship position within Smiths Detection’s field service team, primarily responsible for traveling to customer sites, 
which are often high-security environments, to maintain and repair Smiths Detection’s X-ray and trace detection equipment using 
hand and power tools. This position requires the development of customer-interaction and team-working skills. It is anticipated that 
apprentices will develop the ability to work semi-autonomously, and outside of day-time business hours from time to time, during 
their second year of experience.

Responsibilities-

• Attending weekly TAFE course trainings and completing associated educational tasks and activities
• Travelling to customer sites across metropolitan and regional/remote areas, at times requiring long-distance driving, air travel, and hotel accommodation for several days per trip
• Assisting with troubleshooting, servicing and repairing X-ray and trace detection equipment at customer sites and within Smiths Detection’s service centres
• Assisting with completing preventative maintenance tasks according to service contracts and schedules
• Assisting with responding to equipment faults and other corrective maintenance requirements according to service contracts and key performance indicators
• Assisting with testing components and circuitry of X-ray equipment using a multimeter, computer/laptop and the inbuilt equipment-software
• Assisting with diagnosing the root cause of mechanical, electrical and electronics related equipment faults (involving 24 volts or less)
• Assisting with replacing belts, rollers, motors and other mechanical components within X-ray equipment
• Assisting with replacing and manoeuvring X-ray sources (ie. generators) and other heavy parts using lifting aids
• Assisting with inspecting, vacuuming, cleaning, de-greasing, repairing and replacing internal parts
• Assisting with installing new equipment at customer sites, alongside Smiths Detection’s programs and installations teams and various subcontractors and customer-stakeholders
• Completing field service related documentation and reports
• Completing technical, safety, compliance and other job related trainings, online and in-person
• Maintaining a clean/tidy work station and work environment
• Consuming spare parts from the warehouse/storage area and promptly updating the associated records in the IT 
  software tracking system
• Joining regular internal team meetings and safety briefings
• Assisting with ensuring that tools and testing equipment is maintained and calibrated
• Acting as the designated on-call person according to the relevant regional on-call roster, to provide remote and in-person technical support to customers, during second-year – or sooner if competent to do so – and thereafter
• Other duties as required