Principal Solutions Consultant
Travel Percentage
25%
Job Description
The Company
We lift economies and communities by advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests. In the time you’ve taken to read this one sentence, our platforms have processed over 8,000 transactions and this number grows daily.
FIS stays ahead of how the world is evolving to power businesses, across merchants, banking and capital markets, to outpace today’s fast-changing competitive landscape and help our clients run, grow and achieve more for their business.
We want all our people to bring their very best self into work, and that means balancing priorities and passions, at work and at home. We create teams without barriers, fostering creativity and innovation - behaviors that we value in everything we do.
Join us now to realize your own future growth and success.
The Opportunity
Part of FIS's success and rapid growth is a result of our teams functioning like well-oiled machines that strive for continual improvement. Once we gain a new customer, our teams have to work together seamlessly in order to deliver stellar service that gets our clients up and running as quickly as possible. Our Sales Operations team members are specialists in communicating our customers' needs to the right teams at FIS, ensuring nothing but the best experience from sale to implementation and beyond.
The Principal Solutions Consultant makes an impact on the business by being the bridge between pre-sales technical support and the implementation of our more complex productions, applications and solutions. Equipped with an in-depth knowledge of our systems and products, he/she will provide technical expertise to not only our Sales staff, but also our customers and clients. When we give our colleaguesand our clients the tools they need, our team members see and feel the impact they have on FIS's continued growth.
The Day-to-Day
Responsibilities:
Provides primarily pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions.
Uses in-depth product knowledge to provide technical expertise to sales staff and the customer through sales presentations and product demonstrations.
Assists the sales staff in assessing potential application of company products to meet customer needs and may prepare detailed product specifications for the development and implementation of customer products/applications/solutions.
Creates detailed design and implementation specifications for complex products, applications and solutions.
May build a mini-application based on customer requirements to demonstrate feasibility of the application, often requiring rapid prototyping and/or product demo for client.
May provide consultation and/or product capability assessment and validation to prospective users.
Having wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways.
Has expert level knowledge of company products and services and may be tasked with introducing new products.
Responsible for selling the company's products or services, developing new accounts and/or expanding existing accounts.
Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel.
Qualifications:
Typically requires 8-12 years of field sales experience. For many companies, this will be the most senior level within the organization.
All the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions for which reasonable accommodation will be made. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This position description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Colleagues may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their leader, subject to reasonable accommodation.
Privacy Statement
FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.
EEOC Statement
FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here
For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.