Specialist Solution Engineer - Commerce

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · Munich, Germany, Germany

Salesforce is seeking a Specialist Solution Engineer for their Commerce Cloud and Order Management offerings. This role involves direct customer engagements, understanding customer needs, crafting tailored solutions, and providing technical expertise during the sales process. The engineer will also contribute to industry and product innovation, conduct internal and external enablement sessions, and create reusable assets. The position requires strong B2B commerce knowledge, technical skills in enterprise architectures and integrations, excellent communication and problem-solving abilities, and experience in customer-facing roles.

What you'd actually do

  1. Understand and map customer goals to the Salesforce product portfolio, designing innovative solutions and visions that address complex B2B challenges (e.g., account hierarchies, custom pricing, re-ordering, and unified order routing).
  2. Provide technical expertise during the sales process, addressing customer questions and concerns in close collaboration with Solution Engineers and Account Executives.
  3. Present our Commerce technology with confident familiarity of our B2B and Order Management capabilities.
  4. Lead technical discussions with various partners, from C-level executives to IT teams, articulating the business value and architectural viability of our solutions.
  5. Stay abreast of B2B industry trends and market opportunities, using your expertise to drive product innovation and solve complex technical problems alongside global, multi-functional teams.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of experience in a similar customer-facing role such as Solution/Sales Engineering, B2B E-Commerce architecture, or technical consulting, with a strong focus on commerce technology and transforming complex buyer journeys.
  • Fluency in both German and English is required.
  • Strong understanding of the B2B commerce and OMS vendor landscape, and how capabilities for account hierarchies, custom pricing, re-ordering, and self-service portals work together to drive business value.
  • Good understanding of modern enterprise architectures and backend integration scenarios critical for B2B E-Commerce (e.g., how ERP systems like SAP, Middleware, or PIM connect).
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to persuasively present complex technical and architecture concepts to a variety of audiences, from technical teams to C-level executives.
  • Structured and solution-oriented mindset with the ability to analyze complex business requirements, empathize with customer needs, and propose scalable, practical technical solutions.
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, cross-functional teams and experienced in orchestrating complex sales cycles that require the coordination of multiple internal and external resources.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Salesforce B2B Commerce and Order Management is highly valued.
  • Familiarity with modern frontend technologies, APIs, or supply chain management is a plus.
  • Experience in B2B-heavy industries such as Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), or Wholesale/Distribution is beneficial.

What the JD emphasized

  • Fluency in both German and English is required.