Pre-sales Solutions Consultant

Instacart Instacart · Consumer · United States · Remote · Business Development & Sales

Instacart's Eversight is seeking a Pre-Sales Solutions Consultant to drive presales excellence for their AI-driven promotion optimization SaaS solutions. The role involves partnering with sales, leading discovery sessions, customizing product demonstrations, and building business cases to showcase how their platform delivers actionable insights for CPG brands. The consultant will leverage Instacart's real purchase data to help prospects reimagine category strategies and drive growth.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Sales AEs to develop comprehensive presales strategies for CPG brand prospects, provide strategic input on deal approach and competitive positioning, to achieve quota targets
  2. Lead discovery sessions with key stakeholders from C-level executives to Category Management, Brand Marketing, Insights, Analytics, and Revenue Growth Management teams, analyzing business requirements and building relationships across prospect organizations
  3. Customize product demonstrations based on prospect-specific needs, showcasing how Eversight by Instacart delivers actionable insights on innovation, distribution, consumer behavior, and promotional lift, and develop tailored value propositions that resonate with CPG business priorities
  4. Develop deeper CPG industry expertise specifically around category management, brand strategy, trade promotion optimization, and consumer insights, lead competitive differentiation conversations against traditional syndicated data providers and emerging data platforms, and contribute insights to competitive messaging refinement
  5. Build preliminary business cases based on customer data and industry benchmarks, demonstrating ROI through improved promotional efficiency, faster speed-to-insight, and enhanced category understanding, presenting findings and solution recommendations with clarity

Skills

Required

  • 3-5 years of experience with significant exposure to SaaS pre-sales activities
  • Strong knowledge of the CPG vertical including a deep understanding of Category Management, Brand Performance Analytics, Trade Promotion Management, Consumer Insights, Market Share Analysis, and Revenue Growth Management
  • Experience with or strong understanding of syndicated data platforms (Nielsen, IRI, Circana) and how CPG brands use data for decision-making
  • Expertise in solution storytelling—translating technical functionality into persuasive business narratives that resonate with CPG brand priorities like market share growth, promotional impact, and competitive intelligence
  • Proven presentation and persuasion capabilities with the ability to control an audience, convey complex concepts clearly, and overcome objections particularly around data quality, sample size, and methodology questions common in CPG analytics
  • Experience in creating or developing business processes and strategies in a dynamic environment

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-driven promotion optimization
  • Consumer Insights Platform (CIP) SaaS solutions powered by Instacart Data
  • AI-powered consumer insights, category intelligence, and promotional insights / experimentation