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Account Solution Engineer

Own Company

Own Company

Milan, Italy
Posted on Jan 16, 2026

Description

Job Category

Sales Solutions

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

As an Account Solution Engineer, also known as a "Presales Consultant," "Sales Consultant", ”Pre -Sales Engineer” , “Sales Engineer” or "SE", you'll be a key player in the sales cycle, delivering thought leadership and owning solutions to enhance our customers' experience. You'll collaborate with colleagues, support our sales team, and translate business objectives into compelling recommendations. With your technical and sales skills, you'll present our product offerings, address objections, and inspire confidence in our technology infrastructure.

The Account Solution Engineer will act as a trusted advisor to our customers while aiding the customer’s transformational journey.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and support the entire solution cycle through close collaboration with other teams.
  • Understand the customer's needs, and establish Salesforce's product as the best solution that solves unique challenges, particularly within the Manufacturing sector
  • Convey a deep understanding of the client's industry and technology as it pertains to Salesforce's solutions, understanding specific business processes and challenges
  • Develop and deliver innovative custom solutions, build and present customized demos of Salesforce products including solution concepts to key decision-makers to address their business issues and needs showing business value.
  • Participate in all appropriate product, sales, and procedural training and certifications to acquire and maintain the knowledge vital to be effective in the position
  • Attain quarterly and annual objectives assigned by management
  • Respond efficiently to RFPs
  • Lead the technical side of the sales cycle
  • Have a strong curiosity about growing your career and participating in our internal training programs and mentorship initiatives.

Required Qualifications

  • Experience of pre-sales (solution engineering), consultancy, delivery, or training success for an enterprise software solution organization. We are open to a variety of backgrounds for the role
  • Proven oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication and relationship skills.
  • Proven time management skills in a dynamic team environment.
  • Ability to work as part of a team to tackle problems in dynamic, energizing environments.
  • Inquisitive, practical, and passionate about technology and sharing knowledge.
  • Loves to be the first to know something and to understand why and how things happen.
  • Good at searching out information and experimenting, love to concentrate on a particular topic, and tackle puzzles.
  • Good at explaining ideas and finding ways to keep people's attention.
  • Willing and able to travel occasionally
  • Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).
  • Fluency in Italian and English

Preferred Qualifications

  • This role is mainly focused on the Manufacturing industry so prior experience in this vertical is preferable but not mandatory.
  • Basic understanding of the business requirements of customers within the Manufacturing sector and being knowledgeable on industry-specific solutions such as supply chain management, production planning, quality management, and Industry 4.0 initiatives
  • Experience with Salesforce Manufacturing Cloud or other leading business applications in the manufacturing space would be considered a plus
  • Salesforce Product knowledge and certifications