The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The Role
As a Solution Consultant, you will partner with AspenTech sales teams during the sales cycle to lead in the consultative discovery process with customers; craft a vision and roadmap of a solution that addresses customer requirements; identify differentiated value capture potential; and design an implementation/sustainment program for that solution. This involves maintaining a keen understanding of AspenTech’s product strategy; our value enablers; the execution capabilities of our professional services team and those of our partners; and of the sales pipeline to drive opportunities where AspenTech solutions can bring significant business value to our customers and to AspenTech.$ads={1}
The Solution Consultant is responsible for delivering high quality solutions and business outcomes based on existing AspenTech products. Demonstrating deep knowledge of the solutions and offerings, capable of contributing to the design of a complete solution across the entire lifecycle of a project - from pre-sales through design and delivery of the solution - the Solution Consultant drives transformational results and realizes business strategy for AspenTech customers.This is a customer-facing role that requires self-motivated individuals with excellent business, industry and technical knowledge, along with strong consultative and communication skills to position AspenTech solutions and services with our customers.
The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, with a proven track record in software / technology sales / consulting. We are looking for candidates who are comfortable at the intersection of technology and business. On the business side, the ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to this role.
Your Impact
- Develop industry- and application-specific solutions for the customer. This is a very customer-facing position that will have you leading value discovery customer sessions, assessing customer needs, and developing solutions.
- Determine and understand prospective customer’s critical business issues in order to present and demonstrate AspenTech’s software capabilities as the best possible solution to win the business.
- Build customer-specific solutions on the AspenTech platform using all the available tool options.
- Develop robust recommendations, proposals and scope of work documents for AspenTech Consulting engagements, while also identifying critical dependencies & gaps
- Consult with customers and advise on relevant AspenTech solutions and services, and establish a credible value proposition
- Develop & execute sales campaigns and plans together with the Sales teams
- Work with the Sales team to identify and qualify business opportunities; identify key customer technical challenges; and develop solutions to meet business needs.
- Proactively support pipeline development (e.g. marketing, account planning, awareness sessions, etc.) and sales execution (e.g. strategy for accounts and opportunities, including commercial model conversion, deal models, and Business Requirement Plans) in assigned accounts and opportunities
What You'll Need
- B.S. in Chemical Engineering with 5-8 years practical experience in consulting, technology, and/or industry.
- Minimum of 5-8 years’ experience in APM related technologies a plus but not a must.
- Experience in the process or manufacturing industries- Chemical and/or refining industry experience is strongly preferred. Experience in batch processing and regulated industries will be considered as an advantage.
- Experience with APC (advanced process controls) is a plus. An interest in process data analytics is also a plus.
- Ability to lead cross functional teams and manage multiple priorities under pressure.
- Strong business acumen. Adept at performing customer interviews, identifying improvement opportunities, and overcoming resistance to change. Ability to assess and articulate customer value creation.
- Must possess a strong passion for cutting-edge technologies, with the aptitude and desire to learn new skills.
- A team player with the ability to relate to customers and maintain good working relationship.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
- Flexibility to travel up to 50% of time
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