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Senior Solution Consultant - Retail
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Senior Solution Consultant - Retail
Senior Solution Consultant (Retail) – Northern Europe – Pre-Sales
At Board, we help enterprises plan smarter, drive outcomes, and lead transformation with our Intelligent Planning Platform. Trusted by thousands of leading organizations over the last 28 years, we’ve designed our product with enterprise planning agility in mind while prioritizing the passion and care of our team.
We believe every colleague brings unique value. Collaboration is key—we work openly to deliver results, celebrate shared success, innovate continuously, and embrace a growth mindset to push for excellence daily.
If you’re a forward-thinking professional looking for your next career step in a dynamic and collaborative environment, Board is where you belong!
About the Role
Board International is seeking a highly talented, self-motivated, and analytically-minded Senior Solution Consultant to join our Pre-Sales team, specialising in the retail industry segment within Northern Europe. This role is part of our global retail practice.
As a Senior Solution Consultant, you’ll help clients solve complex problems, demonstrate how Board Solutions and Platform can unlock value, and elevate business processes.
Key Responsibilities
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Your impact will be transformative:
- Engage with high-value, enterprise-level prospects to identify inefficiencies, pain points, and opportunities for improvement—positioning Board as a trusted business partner.
- Partner with industry specialists and account executives to refine engagement strategies and align solutions with targeted challenges.
- Deliver tailored, strategic, and immersive presentations (including demos) to articulate Board’s value proposition to both prospects and customers.
- Collaborate with the sales team to complete RFPs, RFIs, and execute persuasive Solution Demos, Proofs of Concept (PoCs), or Value Propositions.
- Cross-train teams and partners to foster expertise in Board Solutions, ensuring they can represent the product confidently.
- Raise product and solution awareness in the market through industry engagement and thought leadership.
- Ensure technical alignment between Board’s SaaS and offerings with clients’ analytical needs, bridging strategy and execution.
- Document and transfer deal knowledge to implementation teams, ensuring seamless transitions for successful proposals.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years in retail pre-sales, consulting, or planning-related roles.
- Proven expertise in Merchandise Planning processes—knowledge of planning applications is mandatory.
- Preferable: experience with Merchandise Planning, Supply Planning, Demand Forecasting, and retail optimisation tools.
- Ability to develop thought leadership and build credibility as clients’ trusted advisors in the planning space.
- Strong presentation, storytelling, and relationship-building skills—internal and external.
- Must excel at consultative selling: listening to client needs and co-creating solutions through shared vision.
- Experience with multi-dimensional planning models, BI (Business Intelligence), or analytics tools (e.g., Board, Anaplan, Pigment).
- Growth mindset: Energetic in challenging legacy processes and driving innovation.
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