Job Description

Job Category: Sales
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Join the Team Making Possibilities Happen
If you've ever used an ATM, paid a bill through your phone, sent money to a friend, or shopped online, chances are your transaction was safeguarded and processed using our payments software. Now it's your turn to serve the payment needs of organisations and people the world over.
Job Summary:
The Principal Solution Consultant plays a key role in augmenting sales opportunities through understanding and addressing customer's key challenges, and leveraging ACI solutions and technology. This role ensures that our customers and prospects maximise their long term relationship with ACI.
This role, working as part of the European Commercial team focused on Banks and Intermediaries, is heavily involved in the qualification of prospects, ensuring a good fit of ACI Solutions to the business problem of potential customers. As part of the sales cycle, the Principal Solution Consultant collaborates with the new business developers and account executives by leading the business, functional and technical solution selling activity.
Working with the Market Product Managers and Product Marketing, the Principal Solution Consultant will help define the key value propositions for the targeted market segments. This role will work closely with the sales organisation and third party partners, and apply the market segment value propositions in the development of account plans, value propositions, and long term solution adoption strategies for ACI's customers and prospects.
The role requires in-depth industry business insight, an understanding of the strategic and long term approach ACI's customers should execute when using our solutions, a strong grasp of how ACI's solutions can add real value for our customers, and an ability to work directly with new and existing customers.
Job Responsibilities:
Sales and Implementation

• Participates as strategic solution representative in end-to-end sales process and contributes to the successful development of specific opportunities.
• Defines value propositions and long term solution strategies for specific opportunities to assist Sales in progressing deals in line with strategic sales plans.
• Successfully defines and obtains agreement regarding customer requirements.
• Identifies business development opportunities through scoping customer and external industry engagements.
• Identifies and provides advice and business consultancy to prospects/customers on solution design options, and impacts of modifications on the existing system.
• Ensures that all client business objectives are met as identified through the sales process and planned for in the implementation process.
• Builds presentations, proposals, and papers designed to assist in the sales of product solutions.
• Collaboratively works with other solution consultants, account representatives, new business developers, customer success managers, project managers, and the executive leadership team.
• Competent in discussing value of outside market segment products and value propositions.
• Works on complex accounts and tier 1 accounts across Europe.
• Mentors less senior Solution Consultants.

Learning and Development

• Creates and executes against an individual development plan with management support.
• Strives for more competency development.
• Desires and capitalises on continual development in the workplace within their industry discipline.
• Communication and Executive Presence
• Contributes market perspective to development of solution/product roadmap and identifies and produces key value propositions (use cases) in their segment.
• Supports Market Product Managers and Product Marketing in defining the unique differentiators for ACI solutions in the marketplace and development of the value map.
• Clearly indicates expertise through effective communication and strong business acumen.
• Organises and expresses business value and overcomes customer objections.
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years as "Subject Matter Expert" in specific market segment covering one or more of Account-to Account payments and card payments, ideally with strong knowledge across the payments ecosystem
• 10-15 years of experience in relevant industry sector
• 5-10 years consultative sales experience
• Strong understanding of current and emerging technologies, including those providing operational cost savings and efficiency when software is deployed in Public or Private Cloud, or offered as a Managed Service
• Knowledge of multiple industry products and applications preferred
• Understands how technology impacts business
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to perform needs analysis & ROI analysis highly preferred
• Ability to self-motivate and work independently with little supervision
• Works effectively in team environment
• Ability to use a personal computer with proficient skills in business applications such as Microsoft Office
• Domestic and/or international travel required up to 50%

Benefits: In return for your expertise, we offer growth, opportunity, and a competitive compensation and benefits package in a casual work environment.
Are you ready to help us transform the world of electronic payments? To learn more about ACI Worldwide, visit our web site at www.aciworldwide.com Job ID (Requisition #16450)
ACI Worldwide is an AA/EEO employer in the United States, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and an EEO employer globally.
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