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You’ll find that everything revolves around the idea ‘Think Possible’. This means: we always assume that something is possible, even if it seems impossible. Well, especially so, actually. Call it a way of thinking that involves being open to a world of digital solutions that make our lives easier. And our way of working smarter.\nCurrent Job Title: Product\nSales Expert (PSE) - Heltar AI\nReports to (Job title): Regional Sales Director\nDepartment: Finance Sales\nSub-department: Product Sales - AI (Heltar)\nA. Please indicate what the primary focus of the\nfunction is: please choose between both options. It is not possible to select\nboth options.\nFocus is on technical expertise and individual contribution\n(Individual contribution - the position is rather focused on technical\nexpertise than people, project or process management)\nline-break\">\nFocus is on management\n(the focus of the position is on people, project and process\nmanagement)\nB.\nMission: Describe below the primary purpose and function of this job. Why does the job exist in the company?\nPlease\nformulate your answer as follows: which activities (a,b,c) will need to be\ncompleted in order to obtain the following results (x,y,z).\nActing as the Product Sales Expert (PSE) for our Heltar AI investment, embedded within the regional sales organization and reporting to the regional Sales Director as a key support function to the sales team, to help Sellers and Solution Engineers position, demonstrate, and win deals involving the AI element of our solutions, this role exists to accelerate adoption of Heltar AI within active opportunities and to uncover value-based selling opportunities across our focused verticals. The role is deliberately hands-on: the PSE builds the demo, configures the use case, and deploys the chatbot on the Heltar platform rather than briefing someone else to do it. PSEs are based out of Route Mobile offices alongside the regional sales teams, and are encouraged to spend meaningful time with customer representatives, where working close to the customer's own teams surfaces the next set of use cases the platform can serve. During this incubation phase of the Heltar AI investment, PSEs will also stay engaged beyond the sale - supporting implementation of won deals - with the expectation that this involvement evolves into a dedicated Professional Services capability as the practice matures.\n(a) Support Sellers and Solution Engineers on live deals, building working demos and deploying customer-ready chatbots on the Heltar platform → to give every opportunity involving Heltar AI credible technical and commercial backing without requiring the seller to be an AI specialist themselves\n(b) Build value-based selling narratives tied to business outcomes in focused verticals → to move conversations beyond features and toward the measurable value Heltar AI creates for specific industries\n(c) Feed field intelligence back to Product and GTM teams, drawing on time spent working directly with customer teams → to ensure the Heltar AI roadmap and positioning stay calibrated to real buyer objections, competitive dynamics, and vertical-specific needs\nC. Key roles and responsibilities: List up to 5 -\n7 key roles and responsibilities of this job. Additionally, please indicate\nthe percentage of time spent on a monthly basis for each role/responsibility.\nRoles/Responsibilities\nAI Opportunity Identification - Working with Sellers to spot and qualify opportunities within\nexisting pipeline where Heltar AI can be positioned as part of the solution,\nand spending time alongside customer representatives to uncover new use cases\nthe platform can address. - 15%\nDeal Support, Demo Build & Co-Selling - Joining strategic sales cycles alongside Sellers and Solution\nEngineers to support discovery, demos, and objection handling specific to the\nAI capabilities of the platform, including building the working prototype or\nproof of concept on Heltar that the customer evaluates. - 25%\nValue-Based Selling Across Verticals - Identifying and articulating value-based selling opportunities\nacross focused verticals, building ROI narratives and business cases that\nconnect Heltar AI to customer outcomes. - 15%\nVertical & Solution Specialization - Developing a vertical point of view - industry-specific use cases\nand messaging - for Heltar AI across our focused verticals, in partnership\nwith Product. - 15%\nSales & SE Enablement - Building and delivering\ntraining, playbooks, and battlecards that help Sellers and Solution Engineers\nconfidently sell the AI element of our solutions. - 10%\nImplementation & Professional Services Support (Incubation Phase) - Staying engaged post-sale to support\nimplementation of won Heltar AI deals: configuring journeys, deploying and\ntuning chatbots, and working through the integration touchpoints that get a\ncustomer live, laying the groundwork for a dedicated Professional Services\ncapability as the practice matures. - 15%\nCross-Functional Collaboration - Partnering with Product, Marketing, and Solution Engineering to\nrefine Heltar AI go-to-market messaging, feed back competitive and market\nintelligence, and ensure consistent positioning across the sales\norganization. - 5%\nD. Financial responsibility: are you responsible\nfor an operational budget. If so, please provide an indication on the budget\nsize (EUR)\nDirect revenue responsibility - No\nOperational budget ownership - No\nJob requirements and qualifications: Indicate the minimum education and experience for this job, competencies required\nMinimum education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\nMinimum experience: Experienced candidates: 3+ years in a solution sales, sales engineering, or product specialist role, ideally with exposure to AI/ML or conversational AI products, and a demonstrated ability to translate technical AI capabilities into business value. Hands-on capability is essential: building and deploying chatbot and automation use cases independently, working with APIs, webhooks and structured data formats such as JSON, and writing or adapting prompts for LLM-driven journeys. Exposure to WhatsApp Business API, RCS, or comparable messaging platforms is an advantage.\nGraduate candidates: Recent graduates are also welcome to apply in place of the experience requirement above, provided they complete our structured onboarding and technical enablement program. We are looking for a strong academic foundation (business, engineering, or computer science), a genuine aptitude for technology including comfort building something hands-on with low-code tools, APIs or scripting, and the curiosity and communication skills needed to grow into a trusted advisor to Sellers, Solution Engineers and customer teams.\nLanguage skills: English - full professional proficiency (written and verbal)","description_format":"text","description_chars":6895,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Design & Creative","Government","Branding","Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T19:17:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":79,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.873,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-21T05:46:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/proximus-sales-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/proximus-sales-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-21T06:38:18Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9459,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":54371},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=54371"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fproximus-sales-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fproximus-sales-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fproximus-sales-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/proximus-sales-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fproximus-sales-specialist"}]}