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Solutions advisor (Presales) North America

Solutions advisor (Presales) North America

As a Solutions Advisor at Planon, you will work with enterprise customers to understand their real estate and facility operations needs and provide solutions using Planon technology platform.. You will partner closely with the sales team to support both new opportunities and existing customers.

You will work across multiple industries and solution areas, including data centers and field services. You will also gain deep exposure to IWMS and smart building technologies. Within a growing North American team, you’ll have high ownership and visibility, with the opportunity to influence customer outcomes and grow your expertise in a complex, evolving domain.

Planon is a market leader in IWMS and smart sustainable building technology, trusted by large enterprise organizations worldwide. You’ll join a collaborative, international company that values innovation, learning, and taking ownership.

What you’ll do

  • Present Planon solutions across IWMS, Facilities, Real Estate, GIS, BIM, IoT, and related domains to business, technical, and executive stakeholders
  • Lead discovery sessions to identify functional and technical challenges and shape solution approaches aligned to customer processes
  • Understand how customers use existing Planon solutions, drive adoption of core workflows, and remove barriers to value realization
  • Deliver tailored on-site and virtual demonstrations focused on real-world customer use cases
  • Lead and support Proofs of Concept and pilot initiatives, including expansion, new business, data center, and field service scenarios
  • Capture and communicate product gaps and customer feedback to Product and Implementation teams to support continuous improvement
  • Partner closely with Account Managers and Marketing, support RFIs/RFPs, represent Planon in customer engagements and industry events, and travel across North America

Travel: This role includes customer and event travel across North America, typically around 30–40%, with flexibility depending on deal and customer needs.

Profile

You are someone who works comfortably with complex enterprise customers, takes ownership end to end, and operates effectively in a lean, enterprise focused environment.

You bring:

  • 2–5+ years of experience in Presales, Sales Engineering, Enterprise Customer Success or Solutions Consulting
  • Experience leading discovery sessions and tailored demonstrations for complex, multi stakeholder enterprise environments
  • Hands on experience with enterprise SaaS or complex B2B software, ideally in IWMS, facilities, real estate, or asset centric domains
  • Experience leading or supporting Proof of Concepts or pilots, including scenarios with operational complexity such as data centers or field services
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage business, technical, and executive stakeholders
  • A self directed, growth oriented mindset, comfortable learning new solution areas and taking ownership, with exposure to smart building technologies, integrations, or data driven environments accelerating ramp up

We offer

A healthy work-life balance and the possibility of working hybrid. We encourage a collaborative and learning work environment, which is why we offer constant learning and meaningful training opportunities. In addition, we offer challenging projects with world-leading clients and extraordinary experiences. For this role, we offer the following benefits package.

Join us on our journey to become the recognised world leader in Smart Sustainable Building Management software solutions. How do we do this? By putting our people at the heart of our company and creating an inspiring and safe environment that allows all of us to work, learn, live, and play.

Planon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

We know that a company is nothing without its people. Our diverse group of employees is the beating heart of our business and the key to our collective success. From celebrating successes, big or small, to remote working, we understand that company culture is a number one priority. Excitement, enjoyment and fun are integral to who we are and help to create a shared sense of belonging. They not only power our success, they also encourage our drive and resilience.

Crucial to the personal and professional development of our people is maintaining a culture of continuous learning. The Planon Academy has been set up for this reason. We encourage our people to show self-leadership, invest in their personal growth, and fulfil their career potential by using the full range of support and tools we offer. At the end of the day, it’s your career - we want you in the driver’s seat.

Our managers play a very important role in encouraging the talent and career development of our people. To support them in their role, we offer a management learning program.

With our Healthy Hybrid Workplace framework, you have the freedom to work in a way that suits you, whether that’s from the office or from home. You have the flexibility and autonomy to make sustainable choices that work for you. We believe in the power of coming together at the office, but we also embrace the many possibilities that working from home offers. Your well-being comes first.

Our application process consists of five steps:

  1. Introduction call with a recruiter
  2. First interview
  3. Assessment
  4. Second interview
  5. Offer

Learn more about our application process.

First of all, you will receive an attractive salary and benefits package. Secondly, our employees enjoy a healthy work-life balance and opportunities to grow.

Learn more about the benefits specific for your country.

Alongside developing smart sustainable building management software to support our clients on their journey to net-zero buildings, we are investing in improving the sustainability of our own operations.

In our daily activities, we adhere to sustainable business practices. We include these practices in our company values and standards, which are implemented in several ways. The UN Sustainable Development Goals play a leading role in our decision making and we aim to report under the CSRD and the GHG Protocol.

Learn more about Planon’s impact

We value a working culture that excludes nobody. DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging) is essential to our company and the key to unlocking the maximum potential of our individuals and teams. In everything we do, we try to break down barriers and build connections. We have a focus on diversity when it comes to our people, new hires, management, and leadership. We recruit, employ, and promote our colleagues based on their qualities and abilities, and do not discriminate in any manner.

Internal education also plays a big role in our DEIB program. The program includes internal courses and regular workshops on topics such as how to be a hiring manager, overcoming bias, and intercultural competence. The global nature of our organization and colleagues means we especially value these skills.

Planon has offices in 16 countries. The headquarters are in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

You are more than welcome to submit an open application here. We will contact you as soon as possible.

Schneider Electric is a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitization to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centres, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes.

At Schneider Electric and Planon, we're building the future together. As a new colleague, you will be joining a partnership that's redefining what smart buildings can do. Our solutions bridge the gap between building systems (OT) and business processes (IT), transforming data into clear, actionable insights. This is where you come in: helping our customers to create buildings that drive innovation, operational efficiency and sustainability.

Together, we empower our customers to lead and inspire, crafting spaces that are efficient, optimized and have a positive impact on users’ lives and our planet.

These are the steps of our onboarding process:

  1. You will receive a welcome letter with information about your first working day.
  2. Your manager will welcome you on your first day and give you a tour of the office.
  3. You will collect your laptop and other assets from IT and visit HR to finalize the administrative onboarding.
  4. You follow the three-day online induction course by the Planon Academy.
  5. Once your probation period ends, your manager discusses the continuation of the employment contract with you.

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