Implementation Specialist
2150 smart drive uk
📍 Remote🌐 Remote🕐 5mo ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**Who We Are**
Solera is a **global leader** in B2B & B2C **SaaS & Hardware, Data** solutions, empowering companies across the **automotive** and insurance ecosystem with trusted solutions that adhere to the highest standards of data
privacy, security, and integrity to support connectivity across the vehicle and property value chain. Solera's solutions bring together customers, insurers, and suppliers, empowering smarter decision-making through
service, software, enriched data, proprietary algorithms, and machine learning that deliver insight and ensure customers' vehicles and property are optimally maintained and expertly repaired. The company is active
in over **90 countries** across six continents, processing more than **300 million digital transactions annually** for over **235,000 customers** and partners. By drawing on the market-leading solution capabilities and business process best practices from its technologies around the world, Solera provides unsurpassed scale and strength with superior performance while delivering innovation to move the industry forward.
**The Role**
We are looking for a **Implementation Specialist (Field Engineer),** as part of the Professional Services team, who will be responsible for delivery of complex and bespoke customer installations, customer site visits for escalated product fault diagnosis, repairs and replacement and technical customer Training
This role reports directly into Head of Implementation for North Europe & Africa.
**What You’ll Do**
\- Support the pre and post sales process by **recommending best practice use** of the established Fleet Solutions.
**\- Technical customer facing expert**, able to communicate clearly and easily with both business and technical contacts, ie dashcams and telematics.
\- Gather all customer requirements to deliver a thorough and **customer focused implementation.**
\- Develop the Statement of Work based on customer requirements.
**\- Collaborate** with both product and training team to **deliver customer requirements** and the broader Solera team to deliver new product developments.
\- Configure the business configuration on platform based on the customer requirements
**\- SME** in Fleet Solutions, **particularly understanding the hardware and installation of products.**
\- Deliver Customer technical and Engineer **PBET Training**.
\- Provide **technical support** to internal stakeholders on occasion
\- Ability to **provide troubleshooting on kit issues, on-site diagnosis, repair** and/or **replace** the necessary **equipment** to ensure SLA's are met and customer downtime minimised.
\- **Cross functional alignment** with **product and sales** to ensure alignment on roadmap, and delivery in line with customer/revenue expectations.
\- Provide bespoke **Installation Guides** to our Customers and third party associated installation partners.
\- Manage **complex pilots and service visits** providing **on-site support** as necessary.
\- Collaborate with Implementation Associate to manage **contractors** to ensure **compliance** with project specifications and timelines.
**What You’ll Bring**
**\- University Degree in Business**, **Engineering** or equivalent
\- Extensive experience in the **automotive industry**, with a strong background in bespoke aftermarket installations and complex service visits.
**\- Technical requirements gathering** or business analysis experience, ideally in fleet or automotive markets, able to ‘think out of the box’ to deliver value solutions to customers.
\- Commercially aware and able to **support sales opportunities** to deliver best results with least cost.
\- Expertise in **diagnosing and resolving vehicle equipment faults**, ensuring minimal downtime for clients.
\- Full understanding and knowledge of PLG, LGV and HGV, **ECU CANBUS, FMS and Multi-Plex** vehicle wiring systems.
\- Ability to work with and have solid understanding in TFL's **DVS** and additionally **VOSA** and MOT regulatory compliance.
\- At least **5+ years** experience in **vehicle telematics**, comms and video systems with proven installation experience to **recognised industry standards**.
\- Proven ability to deliver **PBET (Performance-Based Equipment Training)** to a high standard, enhancing customer and driver knowledge.
\- Strong **technical acumen** and **hands-on skills** for onsite support and troubleshooting.
\- **Excellent communication** and **interpersonal skills** for effective customer and driver training sessions.
\- Ability to **work independently and as part of a team**, demonstrating flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic environment.
**\- Strong interpersonal skills**, able to build relationships within the Professional Services team, passionate about collaborating and communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
\- Meticulous attention to detail.
\- Extensive use of JIRA, Confluence and Office365.
\- Experience of **technical** & **hardware** implementations/integration project and configuration.
\- Experience with Agile Methodologies such as Scrum, but also with more traditional structured approaches such as Waterfall project implementations advantageous.
**What We Offer**
\- Terrific opportunity to work for a Global leader in SaaS & Hardware
\- Deliver cutting-edge products for our customers, who include some of biggest global brands
\- Flexible work arrangements / hybrid work
_\*It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs._