Advisory Enterprise Solution Consultant

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The Role

AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing – including oil and gas, petroleum, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations. As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs, and become more energy efficient.

AspenTech’s Industrial Data Fabric, Inmation, is a world-class, real-time, scalable OT/IT data connectivity, storage and contextualization platform. It ingests industrial data like temperatures, pressures, flows, alarms and events, qualities and images by connecting to plant/refinery floor instruments, PLC systems, DCS systems, historians, MES and LIMS systems. Inmation isn’t limited to time series data like heritage historian. It also manages relational, structured, file and image data, putting the data in ISA 95 context and uniting the operational data with IT data obtained from ERP and other systems. As the need for contextualized, state-based data grows to support AI and Machine Learning solutions, Inmation is the critical industrial data fabric poised to provide the full suite of data required.

Inmation is also a critical component of AspenTech’s platform integration strategy. Inmation provides the raw data required to power AspenTech’s industry leading advanced process control, real-time optimization, multi-variate analysis, planning, scheduling and engineering solutions. Increasingly, it will serve as the glue uniting AspenTech’s heritage solution suites.

We are seeking an advisory solution consultant, either from within our organization or externally, to lead the solution architecture associated with major account opportunities. The role’s major responsibility is to work closely with our regional Sales Account Managers and regional solution consultants to drive large enterprise Inmation deals toward close.

This role is customer facing. This person will articulate the Inmation Industrial Data Fabric to key customers, architect the solution, describe how Inmation fits into existing OT and IT systems, and technically sell customers on the Inmation vision and solution.

This is a unique position for an exceptional Consultant to take on a high visibility role leading technical sales engagements at AspenTech’s largest and most critical accounts. This role requires an individual who is equally comfortable engaging with C-Suite executives as well as taking deep technical dives on OT and IT data fabrics, technologies and solutions with OT and IT subject matter experts.

Your Impact

• This is a customer facing role.  The Inmation Solution Architect must exemplify outstanding presentation, discussion and sales acumen in addition to deep technical understanding.
• The Inmation Solution Architect masters AspenTech Inmation and MES solutions, including presentation layers like Aspen Inmation Data Studio, Inmation Web Studio, A1PE and others.  
• Demonstrates Industry, OT and IT credibility sufficient to persuade C-Suite executives and customer technical experts to consider Inmation as part of their critical OT and IT infrastructure
• Differentiates Inmation solution versus competitive offerings
• Envisions, designs and constructs Inmation demos based on customer requirements.  Is comfortable sitting in front of a keyboard and configuring compelling Inmation demonstrations to validate AspenTech’s solution to customer executives and stakeholders
• Supports growth of the business in both in License and Services Bookings at all times.
• Works cooperatively with the AspenTech extended team in Sales, Support, CSM, R&D and Partners to ensure successful close of sales opportunities, project delivery and completion.
• Be on the core team of new product launch within the related area of expertise.
• Requires internal travel of up to six trips per quarter.

What You'll Need

Additional requirements:

• Outstanding listening, sales, presenting and demo delivery skills.  Experience selling to customer C-suite executives.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related area<