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United Kingdom · Sales · C-Suite (20+ years)

VP of Global Solutions Engineering

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  • Experience bandC-Suite (20+ years)
  • Direct reports5-10 reports
  • Reports toChief Executive Officer (CEO)
  • UK framework levelUsually a director, accountable for a division and its numbers

Also advertised as Chief Solutions Officer · Global Head of Technical Sales · SVP, Enterprise Solutions

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1What this role really is

This isn't just a big job; it's *the* job for someone who lives and breathes technical sales at an enterprise scale. You'll be the architect of our global technical pre-sales strategy, making sure our solutions engineers around the world are not only hitting their numbers but also shaping the future of our product offerings. Honestly, you're the bridge between what we build and what our biggest clients truly need, setting the vision for how we technically win deals across continents.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Salesforce / Dynamics 365 (CRM)Strategic

Driving CRM process improvement, integrating with other enterprise systems, and using it for strategic territory planning, capacity modelling, and global performance analytics. You'll ensure the system provides the insights your leadership team needs.

SAP CPQ / Oracle CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote)Architect

Designing and refining global quoting rules, managing complex pricing tiers, and analysing CPQ data to identify strategic product bundling opportunities and optimise global margin. You'll ensure it supports our strategic sales plays.

AutoCAD / SOLIDWORKS (CAD Tools)Strategic Understanding

You won't be drawing, but you'll understand interoperability issues between CAD formats, advise on technical data exchange best practices with clients and partners, and ensure your teams have the right tools. You'll speak the language of engineering leaders.

SAP S/4HANA / Oracle NetSuite (ERP Systems)Strategic

Using ERP data to inform large-scale global proposals, forecast demand for key components, and collaborate with operations and supply chain leadership on capacity planning for major deals. You'll connect sales to the operational reality.

MS Teams / Slack (Collaboration & Project Management)Strategic

Establishing collaboration governance for the entire global Solutions Engineering function, ensuring seamless handoffs between sales, engineering, and support, and driving efficient cross-functional project execution across continents.

Power BI / Tableau (Analytics & Visualization)Strategic

Designing and commissioning executive-level dashboards (e.g., in Tableau Server) to track global team performance, win/loss reasons, competitive threats, and strategic initiatives. You'll use data to drive board-level discussions.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Global Technical Sales StrategyN/AN/AN/A
Organisational Design (Global SE)N/AN/AN/A
P&L/Budget Allocation (£10M+)N/AN/AN/A
Product Roadmap InfluenceN/AN/AN/A
M&A Technical Due DiligenceN/AN/AN/A

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Global Technical Win Rate
The percentage of qualified opportunities where our technical solution was chosen over competitors'.
Target · >65% consistently

If we technically qualified 100 enterprise deals in Q1, and our solution was selected in 70 of them, that's a 70% technical win rate. We're looking for that trend to be strong and improving.

Sales Cycle Velocity (Technical Phase)
The average time it takes for a deal to move through the technical validation and solution design stages globally.
Target · Reduce by 10-15% year-on-year

If our average technical sales cycle was 90 days last year, we'd want to see it closer to 80 or 75 days this year, without compromising quality. This means faster PoCs, quicker solution architecture.

Revenue per Solutions Engineer
The total revenue influenced by the global Solutions Engineering team, divided by the number of active Solutions Engineers.
Target · Increase by 15-20% year-on-year

If the team influenced £500M in revenue with 100 engineers, that's £5M per engineer. We'd expect that number to grow as we get more efficient and target higher-value deals.

Product Adoption Rate (New Solutions)
The percentage of new products or major features launched that are successfully integrated into technical sales plays and adopted by clients.
Target · Achieve >80% adoption within 12 months of launch

When we launched our new IoT platform, your team's ability to technically position it saw 85% of relevant deals including it in their proposed solution within the first year. That's what we want to see.

Board and Investor Confidence
The level of trust and confidence the Board and investors have in our technical sales strategy and execution.
  • Board members proactively seek your input on market trends or competitive threats. Investors reference your insights in their reports. You're seen as a credible, strategic voice in executive meetings.
Strategic Partnership Health
The strength and effectiveness of our technical relationships with key global channel partners and integrators.
  • Partners actively co-sell and bring us into new opportunities. They view us as a preferred technical vendor. Joint solutions are developed and successfully brought to market. Feedback from partner surveys is overwhelmingly positive.
Talent Development & Retention
The ability to attract, develop, and retain top-tier Solutions Engineering talent globally.
  • Low regrettable attrition rates within your leadership team. High internal promotion rates. Strong pipeline of future leaders. Positive feedback from skip-level conversations about career growth and development opportunities.
Cross-Functional Alignment
How well the global Solutions Engineering strategy aligns with Product, Engineering, and Regional Sales leadership.
  • Product roadmap reflects market feedback from your teams. Engineering delivers features that directly address technical sales blockers. Regional Sales VPs see your team as an indispensable partner, not just an overhead. Joint planning sessions are productive and lead to clear action.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Driving Enterprise-Level Impact

You'll be making decisions that affect hundreds of millions in revenue and shape our company's market position for years to come. Every strategic choice you make has a ripple effect across the entire organisation and with our global client base.

Successfully launching a new technical sales methodology globally that directly contributes to a 15% increase in enterprise deal win rates, leading to significant market share gains.

Building & Leading World-Class Teams

You'll spend a good chunk of your time mentoring your direct reports (Directors and Senior Managers), shaping the careers of dozens, if not hundreds, of Solutions Engineers. Seeing your leaders grow and your global team thrive is a huge part of the job.

Identifying and promoting a high-potential regional manager to a global leadership role, then seeing them successfully implement a major strategic initiative across multiple continents.

Shaping Product & Business Strategy

You're not just executing; you're at the table with the CEO and Product leadership, influencing where we invest our R&D, what markets we enter, and how our products evolve. Your insights from the front lines of technical sales are critical to our strategic direction.

Presenting a compelling case to the board for investing in a new technical solution based on emerging market needs, leading to a £20M R&D budget allocation.

What frustrates people
  • Losing a massive, multi-year deal because of a last-minute political manoeuvre by a competitor, despite having the superior technical solution.
  • The constant internal friction between global standardisation and local market customisation—it's a never-ending balancing act.
  • Managing a large, geographically dispersed team means you'll spend a lot of time on calls at odd hours, dealing with time zone challenges.
  • Having to make tough decisions about resource allocation or team structure that might not be popular but are necessary for long-term strategic growth.
  • The relentless travel schedule, often to different continents, means significant time away from home and a constant battle with jet lag.
What this role does not give you
  • A predictable 9-to-5 schedule; this is an executive role, so expect long hours and urgent issues at any time.
  • The ability to personally get 'hands-on' with technical solutions; your job is to lead, not to build individual PoCs.
  • A role where you can avoid internal politics; you'll be navigating complex organisational dynamics daily.
  • A role where you don't have to present to the board or investors; public speaking and high-stakes communication are regular occurrences.

6Who you work with

You'll directly shape our global sales effectiveness, product-market fit, and overall revenue growth. Your decisions influence how we compete, how we innovate, and how we're perceived as a technical leader in the industrial sector. Frankly, this role is critical to our long-term success and competitive advantage.

Inside the business
  • CEO and Executive Leadership Team
  • Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
  • Head of Product & Engineering
  • Chief Operating Officer (COO)
  • Regional Sales VPs
  • Head of Marketing
Outside the business
  • Major Global Clients (C-suite and Technical Leadership)
  • Strategic Channel Partners
  • Industry Analysts and Thought Leaders
  • Investors and Board Members
  • Regulatory Bodies (where applicable)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A proven track record of 15+ years in technical sales leadership roles, with at least 5 years at a Director or VP level overseeing significant teams and revenue targets.
  • Demonstrable experience leading and scaling global or multi-regional Solutions Engineering organisations, including hiring, developing, and retaining executive talent.
  • Deep expertise in a specific industrial sector (e.g., automation, heavy machinery, process engineering) with a strong understanding of its technical challenges and market dynamics.
  • A history of successfully influencing product strategy and collaborating effectively with C-suite Product and Engineering leaders.
  • Significant experience managing large P&L responsibilities (multi-million £) and making strategic investment decisions.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Digital Twin & Metaverse Integration

Industrial clients are increasingly using digital twins for operational optimisation and virtual prototyping. Our Solutions Engineers will need to demonstrate and integrate our products within these virtual environments. You need to lead the strategic adoption of this capability.

Digital Twin Architectures · Metaverse for Industrial Collaboration · Data Visualisation in 3D Environments · Interoperability Standards

  • This quarter: Schedule deep-dive sessions with our R&D team on their digital twin initiatives.
  • Next 6 months: Identify a key client pilot project where we can demonstrate our solution within their digital twin.
  • Next 12 months: Develop a global training programme for your teams on demonstrating products in virtual environments.
  • Continuously: Monitor competitor activities in the digital twin and metaverse space.

Quick win: Task a small innovation team within Solutions Engineering to explore and prototype a basic product demonstration within a virtual reality environment (e.g., using Unity or Unreal Engine).

ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Reporting for Technical Sales

ESG factors are now critical decision drivers for enterprise clients and investors. Your teams need to quantify and articulate how our technical solutions contribute to client sustainability goals, and you need to lead the strategy for this reporting.

ESG Frameworks (e.g., SASB, TCFD) · Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) · Quantifying Sustainability ROI · Greenwashing Avoidance

  • This quarter: Work with our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team to understand our company's ESG strategy.
  • Next 6 months: Develop a standardised 'ESG value proposition' framework for your global teams to use in client engagements.
  • Next 12 months: Integrate ESG metrics into your team's value engineering models and client proposals.
  • Continuously: Participate in industry forums focused on sustainability in industrial technology.

Quick win: Review a recent major client proposal and identify 2-3 areas where we could have better quantified the ESG benefits of our solution. Use this as a learning exercise for your team.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attend and speak at major industrial technology conferences (e.g., Hannover Messe, CES, industry-specific forums) to maintain market visibility and network with peers.
  • Participate in executive peer groups or industry associations to share best practices and stay abreast of leadership challenges and solutions.
  • Engage in continuous learning around emerging technologies (AI, IoT, Digital Twins) and their strategic implications for industrial sales.
  • Mentor rising leaders within and outside the organisation, contributing to the broader talent ecosystem.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

The sheer volume of global market data, competitive intelligence, and internal performance metrics is overwhelming. Leaders who can use AI to cut through the noise and identify actionable strategic insights will make better, faster decisions. This isn't just about reporting; it's about predicting.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Driven Strategic Foresight

The sheer volume of global market data, competitive intelligence, and internal performance metrics is overwhelming. Leaders who can use AI to cut through the noise and identify actionable strategic insights will make better, faster decisions. This isn't just about reporting; it's about predicting.

  • Predictive Analytics for Market Shifts
  • Generative AI for Scenario Planning
  • AI-Powered Risk Assessment
  • Ethical AI Governance

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Enterprise Solutions Architecture
  • Global Market Entry & Expansion Strategy
  • M&A Technical Due Diligence
  • Advanced Value Realisation & ROI Modelling

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Director of Sales Engineering (Global/Regional)

    5-10 years at Director level

    Skills to master

    • Managing multi-million-pound budgets, leading large, diverse teams (25-100+), setting regional/specialist technical sales strategy, and influencing product roadmaps at a senior level.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently exceeding regional/global technical win rate targets.
    • Successfully developing and promoting multiple leaders within your direct reports.
    • Demonstrating strong influence on product strategy and engineering priorities.
    • Successfully navigating complex internal and external stakeholder landscapes.
  2. 2

    VP of Product Management (Technical Products)

    8-15 years in Product Management, with a strong technical background

    Skills to master

    • Deep product lifecycle management, market analysis, competitive positioning, and leading product development teams. This path requires a shift from selling to building and defining.

    You're ready to move on when

    • A proven ability to translate market needs into successful product strategies.
    • Strong collaboration history with sales and engineering teams.
    • Demonstrable experience launching and scaling successful technical products.
    • A deep understanding of the financial implications of product decisions.
  3. 3

    VP of Professional Services / Customer Success

    8-15 years in Professional Services or Customer Success leadership

    Skills to master

    • Managing post-sales implementation, customer adoption, retention, and expansion. This path focuses on the full customer lifecycle and ensuring long-term value realisation.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently achieving high customer satisfaction and retention rates.
    • Successfully building and scaling professional services organisations.
    • A strong track record of driving customer value and identifying expansion opportunities.
    • Deep understanding of post-sales technical challenges and solutions.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This role is a launchpad. It's about building a legacy, not just hitting targets. Your strategic vision and leadership here will set you up for the very top echelons of business, whether that's leading this company or another, or shaping the industry from a board seat.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how VP of Global Solutions Engineering is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

Also named as a next step, with no page in the catalogue yet:

  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Leading a team in EngineeringLevel 2

Applied to your work in VP of Global Solutions Engineering

The objective of this unit is to equip learners with an understanding of the roles, responsibilities, knowledge, and skills required to effectively lead a team in an engineering environment. Learners will explore how to manage team workloads, allocate tasks, and contribute to achieving team goals through effective leadership practices.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in VP of Global Solutions Engineering

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Global Technical Win RateThe percentage of qualified opportunities where our technical solution was chosen over competitors'.If we technically qualified 100 enterprise deals in Q1, and our solution was selected in 70 of them, that's a 70% technical win rate. We're looking for that trend to be strong and improving.>65% consistently
  • Sales Cycle Velocity (Technical Phase)The average time it takes for a deal to move through the technical validation and solution design stages globally.If our average technical sales cycle was 90 days last year, we'd want to see it closer to 80 or 75 days this year, without compromising quality. This means faster PoCs, quicker solution architecture.Reduce by 10-15% year-on-year
  • Revenue per Solutions EngineerThe total revenue influenced by the global Solutions Engineering team, divided by the number of active Solutions Engineers.If the team influenced £500M in revenue with 100 engineers, that's £5M per engineer. We'd expect that number to grow as we get more efficient and target higher-value deals.Increase by 15-20% year-on-year
  • Product Adoption Rate (New Solutions)The percentage of new products or major features launched that are successfully integrated into technical sales plays and adopted by clients.When we launched our new IoT platform, your team's ability to technically position it saw 85% of relevant deals including it in their proposed solution within the first year. That's what we want to see.Achieve >80% adoption within 12 months of launch
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From VP of Global Solutions Engineering to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 7 · in progressAI Fluency→ Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)→ your design
Where this takes you

This role is a launchpad. It's about building a legacy, not just hitting targets. Your strategic vision and leadership here will set you up for the very top echelons of business, whether that's leading this company or another, or shaping the industry from a board seat.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
VP of Global Solutions Engineering
  • Enterprise Solutions Architecture
  • Global Market Entry & Expansion Strategy
  • M&A Technical Due Diligence
  • Advanced Value Realisation & ROI Modelling
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14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

VP of Global Solutions Engineering is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

    3-5 years as VP of Global Solutions Engineering

    Enterprise-wide P&L responsibility, overseeing all revenue-generating functions (Sales, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success).

    • Advanced sales operations and enablement across the entire revenue organisation.
    • Global marketing strategy and brand positioning.
    • Customer lifecycle management and retention strategies.
    • Pricing and packaging optimisation for maximum revenue.

  2. Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

    5-10 years in a C-suite role (e.g., VP GSE, CRO, COO)

    Overall company P&L, strategic direction, shareholder value, and external representation.

    • Legal and regulatory compliance at an enterprise level.
    • Human Resources and talent strategy for the entire organisation.
    • Financial planning and analysis for the entire business.
    • Stakeholder management with investors, regulators, and media.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

At the C-suite level, your time is your most valuable asset. Imagine reclaiming a significant chunk of your week, not just for more meetings, but for deeper strategic thinking, critical decision-making, and truly transformative initiatives. That's what AI can offer you.

We're not talking about automating basic tasks here. For a VP of Global Solutions Engineering, AI becomes a force multiplier for strategic analysis, global team management, and executive communication. It's about augmenting your leadership, not replacing it, so you can focus on what only you can do.

AI-Driven Market & Competitive Intelligence

Use advanced AI platforms to continuously scan global industrial markets, identifying emerging trends, competitive threats, and untapped opportunities. Get synthesised reports on competitor technical strategies, patent filings, and customer sentiment across regions, saving you days of manual research. This helps you pivot faster and make more informed strategic bets.

Global Talent & Org Design AI

Leverage AI to analyse global talent pools, identify skill gaps within your organisation, and even model optimal team structures for new market entries or product launches. AI can help you understand the impact of different organisational designs on productivity and retention, giving you data-backed insights for your next big restructure or hiring push.

Strategic Partnership Vetting & Integration

AI can rapidly assess potential strategic partners by analysing their technical capabilities, market reputation, and integration compatibility with our existing ecosystem. It can even help draft initial partnership proposals or integration roadmaps, accelerating your ability to build and scale critical alliances globally.

Executive Communication & Board Report Drafting

Feed meeting transcripts, performance data, and strategic objectives into an AI to draft compelling board presentations, investor updates, or internal executive communications. AI can help refine your messaging, ensure data accuracy, and tailor content for different audiences, freeing you up to focus on the strategic narrative and critical Q&A.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a VP of Global Solutions Engineering?

Common routes in include Director of Sales Engineering (Global/Regional) (5-10 years at Director level), VP of Product Management (Technical Products) (8-15 years in Product Management, with a strong technical background) and VP of Professional Services / Customer Success (8-15 years in Professional Services or Customer Success leadership). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a VP of Global Solutions Engineering progress to?

This role can lead on to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) (3-5 years as VP of Global Solutions Engineering) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (5-10 years in a C-suite role (e.g., VP GSE, CRO, COO)), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a VP of Global Solutions Engineering in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 7 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a VP of Global Solutions Engineering?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Strategic Foresight. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a VP of Global Solutions Engineering, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 1 national skill standard. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a VP of Global Solutions Engineering: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 7

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Sales

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

Your experience at this level is highly transferable. You could move into similar C-suite roles in other industrial technology companies, or even transition into private equity, venture capital, or management consulting, leveraging your deep operational and strategic expertise.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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