Solutions Consultant

Akkodis is seeking a – “Solutions Consultant” for a Contract position with a client located in San Bruno, California (Hybrid).

Pay Range: $80 - $85/hr. (The rate/salary may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.).

Position Overview

As a Solutions Consultant, you act as a partner to internal/external users or partners and/or consultant to internal teams as you continuously develop your understanding of translating commercial business models/needs into solutions across the user/partner/client life cycle. You work with IC-level internal/external users/partners/clients internally and externally. You deliver excellent user or partner care to achieve project goals. You support your team in troubleshooting for solutions, repeatable solution development, pre-and/or post-sales consulting, and solution scoping and development. You are developing your knowledge of product deployment, systems integration, and our technologies and processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Support defining of long-term solution strategies in collaboration with cross-functional teams and influence the direction and priority of technical product features and/or the solution with some guidance.
• Support assessment and identification of gaps and issues in current products based on user feedback or metrics analysis and quantify impact of solving/the consequences of leaving issues unsolved with some guidance. Support communication of product gaps and issues to internal teams (e.g., Product Management, Business Development, Engineering) with some guidance. Support solving gaps and issues by contribution that can take the form of developing, validating, and documenting new features/solutions with some guidance.
• Help identify trends of solution issues across users/partners/clients and collaborate with internal teams (e.g., engineering) to mitigate risks in the future with minimal guidance. Contribute to developing initiatives and practices to improve solution delivery, develop new delivery workflows, and drive solution innovation with minimal guidance.
• Support collaboration with manager-level stakeholders to troubleshoot the most optimal solutions and enhance offerings with some guidance. Support coaching internal and external teams on new solutions/systems, user/partner/client ecosystem, and industry landscape with some guidance. Address escalations to and from stakeholders with some guidance.
• Help execute solutions, with regular support from peers/community, based on user/partner/client business objectives and technical requirements that have been previously defined, developed, and approved.
• Own project documents, take notes, meet deadlines, communicate obstacles early, manage time, and follow work plans.
• Help to build and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders in user/partner/client/internal organizations to deliver or manage quality solutions and services with some guidance. Contribute to advising on best practices to optimize internal stakeholder/client use of technology to support their business processes with some guidance. Help enhance relationships and seek out new opportunities through consultation and engagement with some guidance.

Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:

- Consultative skills

- Operations management

- Situational leadership

- Customer conversations

- Industry knowledge

- Technical acumen

- Project management

- Domain specific knowledge

- Stakeholder management

- Opportunity and pipeline management

- Systems Thinking (Knowledge)

- Problem-solving

Supplemental Job Description

Work Location: San Bruno, CA - Hybrid (Tues-Thurs in the office. Monday & Friday remote)

Top Responsibilities:

• Execute day-to-day operational tasks for YouTube TV and Primetime Channels Package and Offer support areas, including new package and offer creation, price changes. package turndowns, free trial requests, and rebrands.
• Identify, recommend, and support the implementation of process & tooling improvement opportunities.
• Help execute solutions, with regular support from peers/community, based on user/partner/client business objectives and technical requirements that have been previously defined, developed, and approved.

Minimum role qualifications requirement:

• 2 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.
• 2 yrs experience in product operations or project management (ideally in the media or finance industries.)
• Proven ability to effectively navigate ambiguity.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees with the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

· The California Fair Chance Act

· Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

· Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

· San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance