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United Kingdom · Sales · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Manager, Solutions Consulting

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  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports6-10 reports
  • Reports toDirector, Solutions Consulting
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Solutions Engineering Manager · Head of Pre-Sales (Mid-Market) · Technical Sales Manager · Principal Solutions Consultant (with leadership focus)

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about managing people; it's about leading a team of technical experts who are the backbone of our sales process. You'll be the person ensuring your Solutions Consultants (SCs) are sharp, supported, and consistently winning the technical evaluations. Think of yourself as a player-coach, but with a heavy emphasis on the coaching and strategic oversight. You'll balance individual performance with team development, all while keeping a keen eye on how your team's efforts translate into actual revenue. It's a demanding role, but incredibly rewarding when you see your team thrive and deals close because of their technical brilliance.

2What you'd actually use

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

Salesforce (Lightning)Strategic

Designing custom objects and workflows with RevOps to track POCs, product gaps, and SE workload. Analysing org-wide data for capacity planning and team performance metrics. Ensuring your team's data hygiene.

Seismic / Highspot (Sales Enablement)Architect

Leading the selection and implementation of enablement platforms for technical content. Defining the entire technical content strategy and taxonomy for your team and contributing to the wider sales organisation.

AWS/Azure/GCP (POC Environments)Strategic

Developing the organisation's overall demo strategy (e.g., interactive vs. live, cloud-hosted vs. local). Managing the cloud budget for your entire pre-sales function and ensuring cost-effective use of resources.

Jira / ConfluenceStrategic

Designing the cross-functional workflow between Sales, Product, and Engineering using Jira/Confluence integrations. Ensuring effective communication and tracking of technical feedback and product gaps from your team.

Tableau / Power BIExpert

Building and presenting executive-level dashboards on your team's performance, SE impact on revenue, and product-deal correlation for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs). Using data to drive strategic decisions.

Anaplan / Clari (Capacity Planning)Advanced

Using planning tools to model SE:AE ratios, forecast hiring needs based on sales pipeline, and allocate your team's resources to strategic territories or verticals. Optimising team coverage.

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
Team Hiring & OnboardingNo authority; provides feedback on candidates.No authority; participates in interviews and provides feedback.Recommends candidates, participates in final interviews, helps define onboarding plan.
Resource Allocation (Team Coverage)Follows assigned coverage model.Manages own deal assignments, escalates conflicts.Prioritises own workload across complex deals, advises AEs on best practices.
Technical Sales Strategy & ProcessExecutes defined processes.Identifies process inefficiencies, proposes minor improvements.Designs and implements improvements to specific technical sales processes (e.g., POC templates).

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.

Team Technical Win Rate
Percentage of qualified opportunities where your team secured the 'technical win' (prospect's technical team confirms our solution is preferred).
Target · 80%+ across your team's supported deals

If your team supported 50 technical evaluations in a quarter and secured the technical win in 42, that's an 84% technical win rate. We'll track this closely.

Team Revenue Influence
The total closed-won ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) that your team directly influenced through their technical engagement.
Target · £5M-£10M+ per quarter, depending on segment

Your team helped close 5 deals totalling £6M ARR in Q2. This metric shows the direct financial impact of your team's technical expertise.

SE:AE Ratio Optimisation
Maintaining an optimal ratio of Solutions Consultants to Account Executives to ensure adequate technical coverage without overspending.
Target · 1:3 to 1:5, depending on deal complexity

You manage 8 SCs supporting 30 AEs, which is a 1:3.75 ratio. We're looking for you to balance this to maximise coverage and efficiency.

Team POC Success Rate
Percentage of Proof of Concepts (POCs) that meet their mutually agreed-upon success criteria and lead to a closed-won deal or clear next steps.
Target · 90%+ success rate

Out of 10 POCs your team ran, 9 met their criteria and progressed to contract. That's a 90% success rate, showing effective scoping and execution.

Team Member Development & Retention
How effectively you coach, mentor, and develop your team members, leading to promotions and low regrettable attrition.
  • Evidence includes individual development plans (IDPs) with clear progression, successful internal promotions (e.g., L2 to L3), positive 360-degree feedback from your direct reports, and a low voluntary turnover rate within your team. We'll also look at how you handle performance management—it's not always easy, but it's essential.
Cross-functional Collaboration & Influence
Your ability to build strong working relationships with Sales, Product, and Engineering, ensuring smooth handoffs and effective feedback loops.
  • You're regularly invited to Product roadmap meetings, your team's feedback drives specific feature enhancements, and Sales leadership consistently praises your team's support. We'll also look for examples of you proactively resolving inter-departmental issues before they become major problems. Are you seen as a trusted partner, or just a resource?
Process Improvement & Efficiency
Your contribution to optimising the pre-sales process, making it more efficient, scalable, and effective.
  • You've introduced new demo best practices that reduce prep time, streamlined our RFP response process, or implemented new tools that save your team hours each week. We'll look for tangible examples of you identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions, not just complaining about them.

5Would you like it

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

What people enjoy
Developing and Growing People

You'll spend a good chunk of your day in 1:1s, coaching sessions, or helping your team prepare for complex customer engagements. You get a real buzz from seeing one of your SCs nail a demo they've been struggling with, or successfully close a technical win on a challenging account.

One of your junior SCs lands their first major technical win after weeks of coaching on discovery calls. That's your victory too.

Strategic Impact on Revenue

You're constantly looking at the bigger picture—how your team's efforts contribute to the overall sales targets. You'll work closely with Sales Directors to align on strategy, identify key accounts, and ensure your team is deployed where they can have the most impact. Seeing your team's influenced revenue numbers climb is a big win for you.

You implement a new technical qualification process that reduces wasted POCs by 20%, directly improving your team's efficiency and focus on high-value deals.

Solving Complex Organisational Challenges

Beyond individual deals, you'll be tackling challenges like improving the SC:AE ratio, refining our demo strategy, or building better feedback loops with Product. You enjoy figuring out how to make the entire pre-sales engine run more smoothly and effectively.

You champion and implement a new internal knowledge base for technical answers, cutting down RFP response times for your entire team.

What frustrates people
  • Dealing with underperforming team members and the difficult conversations that come with it.
  • Resource constraints – having to say 'no' to an AE because your team is stretched too thin.
  • The constant pressure from sales leadership to hit targets, even when external factors are challenging.
  • Product gaps or bugs that repeatedly derail your team's demos, and the slow pace of getting them fixed.
  • The political dance between Sales, Product, and Engineering to get things done.
  • Having to justify your team's value and impact with data, especially when budgets are tight.
What this role does not give you
  • The opportunity to be a full-time, hands-on technical architect on every deal.
  • A quiet, predictable work environment with minimal interruptions.
  • The ability to completely avoid administrative tasks and reporting.
  • An environment where every decision is clear-cut and universally agreed upon.

6Who you work with

This role directly influences our technical win rates and the efficiency of our sales cycle. You're responsible for ensuring our technical solutions are not just understood, but truly valued by our prospects. Your team's ability to articulate complex technical concepts in a simple, business-relevant way can be the difference between winning and losing a major deal. You'll also play a critical part in shaping our product roadmap by feeding back crucial customer insights from the field. Frankly, without a strong Solutions Consulting team, our AEs would struggle to close complex deals, making your role absolutely central to our revenue goals.

Inside the business
  • Sales Directors and Account Executives (AEs)
  • Product Management and Engineering Leads
  • Sales Operations and Enablement
  • Customer Success Managers
Outside the business
  • Customer CTOs, IT Directors, and Technical Architects
  • Key business stakeholders during POCs and solution design
  • Industry partners and integrators

7What you need before you start

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

  • Proven experience (at least 5-8 years) as a Senior Solutions Consultant or Sales Engineer, consistently achieving high technical win rates and revenue influence.
  • Demonstrable experience coaching or mentoring junior team members, with a clear passion for developing others.
  • Strong understanding of the entire sales cycle, from prospecting to close, and the critical role of technical pre-sales at each stage.
  • Experience managing complex Proof of Concepts (POCs) and delivering highly customised technical demonstrations.
  • A track record of building strong relationships with both internal (Sales, Product) and external (customer technical leadership) stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

8What to practise next

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

Platform Ecosystem & Integration Strategy

Customers increasingly buy integrated solutions, not just point products. You'll need to coach your team on how our product fits into broader customer ecosystems and how to articulate the value of integrations.

API-First Architectures · Data Orchestration & ETL · Cloud Native Integration Patterns · Partner Ecosystems

  • This month: Review our product's API documentation and common integration patterns.
  • Next quarter: Shadow a Product Manager or Solution Architect on a call discussing integration strategy.
  • Month 4-6: Develop a training module for your team on how to position our product within a broader customer ecosystem.
  • Month 7-9: Lead a session with Product on identifying key integration gaps based on customer feedback.

Quick win: Ask your team about the most common integration questions they get from customers. This will highlight areas for your own learning and team coaching.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending industry conferences and webinars (e.g., SaaStr, Dreamforce) to stay current on sales trends and technologies.
  • Participating in leadership development programmes or executive coaching to refine your management and strategic skills.
  • Actively engaging in online communities or forums for Solutions Consulting leaders, sharing best practices and learning from peers.
  • Reading relevant books and articles on sales leadership, team development, and emerging technologies (e.g., AI in sales).
  • Seeking out opportunities to mentor junior professionals, even outside of your direct team, to hone your coaching abilities.

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 Sales Enablement & Coaching

AI is rapidly changing how we coach, train, and enable sales teams. Managers who can effectively use AI tools to analyse team performance, identify skill gaps, and deliver personalised coaching will have a significant advantage in building high-performing teams.

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AI-Driven Sales Enablement & Coaching

AI is rapidly changing how we coach, train, and enable sales teams. Managers who can effectively use AI tools to analyse team performance, identify skill gaps, and deliver personalised coaching will have a significant advantage in building high-performing teams.

  • Conversation Intelligence Platforms
  • AI-Powered Performance Analytics
  • Personalised Learning Paths
  • Ethical AI Use in Coaching

Advanced Data Storytelling for Leadership

As data becomes more abundant, the ability to not just present numbers but to craft a compelling narrative around them for senior leadership is paramount. You'll need to show the 'why' behind your team's performance and strategic decisions.

  • Narrative Structure in Data Presentation
  • Visualisation Best Practices (Beyond Basic Charts)
  • Connecting Metrics to Business Outcomes
  • Anticipating Executive Questions

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Advanced Solution Selling & Value Engineering
  • Strategic Technical Discovery & Qualification
  • POC/POV Programme Management
  • Competitive Technical Differentiation (Strategic)
  • Requirements Gathering & Product Feedback Loop

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

    Senior Solutions Consultant (L3/L4) to Manager

    3-5 years as a Senior/Lead SC

    Skills to master

    • Beyond excelling as an individual contributor, you'd need to demonstrate strong informal leadership, mentorship of junior SCs, and a clear interest in people development. Taking on project leadership roles or helping to define team processes would be key.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently exceeding technical win rate and revenue influence targets.
    • Proactively mentoring 1-2 junior SCs and providing constructive feedback.
    • Leading internal initiatives to improve pre-sales processes or content.
    • Expressing a clear desire to move into management and understanding the shift in focus.
  2. 2

    Technical Lead / Architect from another department

    5-7 years in a technical leadership role (e.g., Engineering Lead, Technical Product Manager)

    Skills to master

    • This path requires a strong technical background and leadership experience, but you'd need to rapidly acquire deep product knowledge and understand the nuances of the sales cycle. Building relationships with sales leadership and learning how to translate technical concepts into business value for customers would be paramount.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven experience leading and managing technical teams.
    • Strong grasp of complex technical architectures and problem-solving.
    • Demonstrated ability to learn new products and industries quickly.
    • A clear passion for customer engagement and sales-driven outcomes.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as a Solutions Consulting Manager is just one step on a rewarding career path. We're here to support your ambition, whether that's growing into a senior leadership role, becoming a deep technical expert, or exploring new opportunities. The skills you hone here will set you up for long-term success, no matter where your career takes you.

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The ten Future Fluencies

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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 Manager, Solutions Consulting 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

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:

Manage Sales Technology SystemsLevel 5

Applied to your work in Manager, Solutions Consulting

This unit aims to equip learners with the knowledge of functional requirements of sales technology systems and how to support users for effective adoption. Learners will be able to monitor system effectiveness, identify areas for improvement, and ensure the effective usage of sales technology to optimise sales performance.

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.

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Evidenced on your work in Manager, Solutions Consulting

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.

  • Team Technical Win RatePercentage of qualified opportunities where your team secured the 'technical win' (prospect's technical team confirms our solution is preferred).If your team supported 50 technical evaluations in a quarter and secured the technical win in 42, that's an 84% technical win rate. We'll track this closely.80%+ across your team's supported deals
  • Team Revenue InfluenceThe total closed-won ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) that your team directly influenced through their technical engagement.Your team helped close 5 deals totalling £6M ARR in Q2. This metric shows the direct financial impact of your team's technical expertise.£5M-£10M+ per quarter, depending on segment
  • SE:AE Ratio OptimisationMaintaining an optimal ratio of Solutions Consultants to Account Executives to ensure adequate technical coverage without overspending.You manage 8 SCs supporting 30 AEs, which is a 1:3.75 ratio. We're looking for you to balance this to maximise coverage and efficiency.1:3 to 1:5, depending on deal complexity
  • Team POC Success RatePercentage of Proof of Concepts (POCs) that meet their mutually agreed-upon success criteria and lead to a closed-won deal or clear next steps.Out of 10 POCs your team ran, 9 met their criteria and progressed to contract. That's a 90% success rate, showing effective scoping and execution.90%+ success rate
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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 Manager, Solutions Consulting to Director, Solutions Consulting (L6), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, Solutions Consulting (L6)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey as a Solutions Consulting Manager is just one step on a rewarding career path. We're here to support your ambition, whether that's growing into a senior leadership role, becoming a deep technical expert, or exploring new opportunities. The skills you hone here will set you up for long-term success, no matter where your career takes you.

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Manager, Solutions Consulting
  • Advanced Solution Selling & Value Engineering
  • Strategic Technical Discovery & Qualification
  • POC/POV Programme Management
  • Competitive Technical Differentiation (Strategic)
  • Requirements Gathering & Product Feedback Loop
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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

Manager, Solutions Consulting is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Director, Solutions Consulting (L6)

    3-5 years as Manager, Solutions Consulting

    Managing multiple SC teams or a larger regional team. Setting functional strategy for a business unit. Managing a larger budget and influencing GTM strategy.

    • Go-to-Market Strategy: Contributing to and shaping the overall GTM strategy from a technical pre-sales perspective.
    • Global Team Management: Experience managing diverse teams across different geographies and cultures (if applicable).
    • M&A Due Diligence: Involvement in technical pre-sales due diligence for potential acquisitions.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

As a Solutions Consulting Manager, your time is precious. You're balancing team development, strategic planning, and jumping into complex deals. What if you could free up significant time for yourself and your team, allowing you to focus on high-impact coaching and strategic initiatives? That's where AI comes in.

We're building an AI Productivity Hub specifically for our Sales teams, and for Solutions Consulting Managers, it's a game-changer. Imagine AI handling the grunt work, giving you and your team more bandwidth for what truly matters: understanding customers, crafting brilliant solutions, and winning deals. This isn't about replacing people; it's about making our people exponentially more effective.

AI-Powered Performance Insights

AI analyses CRM data (technical win rates, demo feedback, POC progress) to highlight coaching opportunities and identify top performers or areas needing support within your team. No more digging through reports; the insights come to you, ready for your 1:1s.

Automated Team Meeting Summaries & Action Items

AI records and transcribes team meetings, then automatically generates concise summaries, identifies key decisions, and assigns action items to relevant team members. You'll spend less time on admin and more time on follow-up and coaching.

Intelligent Content Gap Analysis

AI reviews customer questions, RFP responses, and product feedback from your team, then identifies gaps in our existing technical content (demos, battle cards, whitepapers). This helps you direct your team's content creation efforts strategically, ensuring they build what's actually needed.

AI-Assisted Coaching Prompts

Based on recorded customer calls and team member performance data, AI can suggest targeted coaching prompts for your 1:1s. For example, 'Consider coaching [SC Name] on handling competitor X's new feature objection, as it came up in 3 calls this week.' This makes your coaching more precise and impactful.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Manager, Solutions Consulting?

Common routes in include Senior Solutions Consultant (L3/L4) to Manager (3-5 years as a Senior/Lead SC) and Technical Lead / Architect from another department (5-7 years in a technical leadership role (e.g., Engineering Lead, Technical Product Manager)). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Manager, Solutions Consulting progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Solutions Consulting (L6) (3-5 years as Manager, Solutions Consulting), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Manager, Solutions Consulting in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 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 Manager, Solutions Consulting?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Sales Enablement & Coaching and Advanced Data Storytelling for Leadership. 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 Manager, Solutions Consulting, 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 4 national skill standards. 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 Manager, Solutions Consulting: 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 5

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

The skills you'll develop as a Solutions Consulting Manager — technical leadership, sales strategy, people development, and cross-functional influence — are highly transferable. You could move into broader sales leadership roles, product management, or even start your own venture. The ability to bridge the gap between technical solutions and business value is invaluable across many sectors.

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